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- From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
- Subject: Re: net.hugs?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.135945.10491@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <13NOV92.21925419.0026@lafibm.lafayette.edu> <31517@hydra.Helsinki.FI> <PRAUDA.92Nov18000038@dol-guldur.hut.fi>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:59:45 GMT
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- In article <PRAUDA.92Nov18000038@dol-guldur.hut.fi> prauda@dol-guldur.hut.fi (Kristiina Prauda) writes:
- >>In <13NOV92.21925419.0026@lafibm.lafayette.edu> CE42@lafibm.lafayette.edu (CE42000) writes:
- >>>>I too am new to this news group so hi, y'all. I was ungraciously dumped
- >>>Hi! *hug* and welcome to ARC!
- >>
- >>I'd like to ask why people share *hugs* and *kisses* on the net. What
- >>is the value of them? Would you also hug and kiss a stranger in real
- >>life?
- >
- >But there is also a difference between people who write on the net and
- >people you meet in the street: for one, the passers-by don't come to you
- >to ask advice on their love lives... :-) The net is more like a group of
- >people who share some things - interest in the computer networks, in
- >computers in general, and in groups like alt.romance, interest in the
- >more romantic side of life. When you post, you are in a way seeking a
- >place in that group, and the hugs are a way for people to show you that
- >they welcome you and hope that you will feel comfortable and realize
- >that they truly wish to support you - if only by words from the other
- >side of the world.
- >
- >And this is even more literally true of alt.romance.chat, the group
- >where these posts seem to have appeared (I do not remember the
- >specific posts myself, but ARC means alt.romance.chat - by someone
- >who has already been reading it for a while). ARC is more or less
- >just a group of romantically inclined friends, who send *hugs* and
- >*kisses* to each other all the time, because they would probably give
- >them to each other in real life, as well (and have really done so,
- >from what I hear about the various ARC Chat meetings...). In such an
- >inside group, it is even more important to make new posters feel
- >welcome, which is why the hugs and kisses for them, too.
- >
- >Cleared anything? :-)
-
- Yea my stomach. =:)
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