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From: cffres@uvaee.UUCP (Chuck Ferrara)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.singles
Subject: Re: net.personals
Message-ID: <457@uvaee.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 11:03:34 EDT
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Summary: 

In article <269@whuts.UUCP> amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill) writes:
>> It seems like there's a (small, but growing) majority
>> in favor of this proposal, so what's the problem?
>
>One problem that I can forsee is that this net is supported
>primarily by corporate largesse. That makes USENET a privilege, not a
>right. I, for one, would have a hard time explaining to some of the
>higher-ups in my company how AT&T benefits by mailing personal ads
>all over the country. In almost every large city, there are
>magazines or weekly papers that accept personal ads; I suggest using
>them. You will reach a much larger audience, and you will have a
>much higher probability of *meeting* the people that respond.
>
Not only that, these papers & mags have a local distribution. Who wants
to read personals from somebody who lives 3,000 miles away?