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From: speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: net.personals
Message-ID: <296@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 20:47:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: gymble.296
Posted: Thu Aug 29 20:47:09 1985
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References: <39@csi> <2279@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <1531@peora.UUCP>
Reply-To: speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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In article <1531@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
>
> Why is there this great enthusiasm for net.personals?  It seems to me to
> be a bad thing.  (Actually, when I first started reading the Network News,
> I used to avoid net.singles, because I thought that was what it WAS.)
> 
> Why would advertising yourself be better than merely talking to other people?
> Isn't writing in here a way to meet people?  I hope that if net.personals
> appears, people will not begin to assume "s/he didn't put an ad in net.-
> personals, so s/he must not be interested," or something along those lines,
> the way people currently reason in Real Life...

A net.personals group might be interesting as a way of saying "hi this
is who I am" and initiating converstations on the net.  You might say
"Well why do we need it?"  Well maybe we don't NEED it.... but it might
be fun and usefull.  Use the constructivist approach.... build it and
find out how well it works!
-- 
seismo!gymble!speaker					- Speaker

"Earth is a great funhouse without the fun."
                -- Jeff Berner