Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!decvax!dartvax!nadya From: nadya@dartvax.UUCP (Nadya M. Labib) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: net.personals Message-ID: <3558@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 04:44:45 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.3558 Posted: Sun Sep 8 04:44:45 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 9-Sep-85 04:42:53 EDT References: <39@csi> <2279@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <1531@peora.UUCP> Reply-To: nadya@dartvax.UUCP (Nadya M. Labib) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 19 In article <1531@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes: >> I would like to see it too. Does anyone know how to get it done? > >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? Because people have a hard time communicating on an equal level. I would like to see this newsgroup on a trial-basis. I think there will be more disatisfied users than satisfied ones... Remember, people can be so dishonest when not face to face... "Who let this clown in here, anyway?"