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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: net.personals
Message-ID: <1566@peora.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 08:46:42 EDT
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> J. Eric Roskos writes:
> >Why would advertising yourself be better than merely talking to other people?
> >Isn't writing in here a way to meet people?
> [Morris Jones writes:]
> Hi!  You tell us.  You've now posted to net.singles.  Who've you met?
> Started any pen pal relationships because of it?  I'm asking sincerely,
> not to be flip.

Well, obviously the people I've met are reading this right now, maybe they
don't like me talking about them!

I will say, though, that I don't claim any substantial "success rate" in
terms of long-term "penpals" as a result.  Actually I guess that is an
advantage of the net.personals approach; usually in personal
advertisements, people state basic facts (age, level of education, etc)
which get left out of net.singles postings, and all of which have led to
former "penpals" of mine drifting away (or suddenly disappearing) after
awhile.

Nevertheless, real life is that way, too; and I suspect it's also true of
personals advertisements.
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