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From: doc@dgp.toronto.edu (Blaine Price)
Newsgroups: ont.singles
Subject: Re: asking out over the net
Summary: enough!
Keywords: use of this newsgroup, women posting, asking out, flaming Blaine
Message-ID: <8902201716.AA05093@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 89 17:16:16 GMT
References: <89Feb20.002511est.38074@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Distribution: ont
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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When I first read this post this morning (from home) my first instinct was
to flame Gara for implying that I started all this and it was all *MY* fault
(and publicly hexing people is not a nice thing).  Before I could hit the "f"
key my modem decided to drop the line (no, I'm not superstitious).

So I decided to talk to Gara and we both agreed that all of this is very 
silly, that her posting was mis-interpreted by a lot of people, and that 
this is definately not the forum for "asking people out" (individually at
least).  More importantly, Gara agreed that we were both at fault and that
she would remove the hex so that my modem would start working again.  So 
let's say that this topic is closed and that all offers and bets are
null and void.

I don't know if this group has a constitution, but I'll propose that it be
the discussion of concerns of single people in Ontario and that it
specifically discourage the soliciting of "dates."   On this vein, I'm
particularly interested in Gara's earlier posting about women being socialized
differently from men (in general).  Not to put the heat back on Gara, but
I'm curious as to her observations on this subject given that she works in
a field (computing) that is over-populated with males.  Have you observed 
women in computing to be "different" from your Bay Street friends.  Is
it even possible that people from these two groups could interact socially?

Blaine
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Blaine Price  (416) 978-6619, fax: 4765         doc@dgp.utoronto.{ca,bitnet}
Dynamic Graphics Project, Dept. of Computer Sci.         doc@dgp.toronto.edu
Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4               ...!uunet!dgp.toronto.edu!doc
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