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- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!gds
- From: gds@york.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
- Subject: Re: net.hugs?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.011542.21222@cs.ucla.edu>
- Originator: gds@york.cs.ucla.edu
- Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: york.cs.ucla.edu
- Reply-To: gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
- Organization: in your face!
- References: <1992Nov20.210352.17644@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com> <y-qq9x-@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Nov23.192735.9804@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 01:15:42 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Nov23.192735.9804@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com> puter@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude) writes:
- >In article <y-qq9x-@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
- >>Alt.romance.chat was created a number of months back for the sole purpose of
- >>moving a running thread with 'cowpatty' and somebody else out of alt.romance
- >>so they (the alt.romance people) could talk about more important things,
- >>like White Knights and crap like that.
-
- Correct. In addition, alt.romance.chat was created because this
- exchange consisted of one-liners, inside jokes, and other inanities
- people in alt.romance (and soc.singles) didn't want to read.
-
- >>Alt.romance and alt.romance.chat are damn near identical.
-
- If this is so (I don't read a.r.c) it is not by original intent.
-
- >I'm probably wrong, but I don't see them as "damn near identical". After
- >readin' a.r and ARC (along with soc.singles and soc.couples), I view a.r
- >as a more "mechanical" side of romance, where ARC has the banter. a.r IMHO
- >has more to do with (ie) what color of the rose denotes what emotion,
- >engagement present ideas, lists of romantic songs, romantic first date
- >ideas, etc., where ARC contains the banter (running threads).
-
- This sounds like a reasonable description of alt.romance to me.
-
- > I don't view a.r as a "syrupy sweet" group. It mostly contains
- >references for romantic ideas, such as the ones I listed above.
- > ARC _is_ "syrupy sweet", and can be very annoyin'. But, so can
- >a month-long thread on "seesters". :)
-
- Or other inanities, one-liners, and other discussion that is (IMHO)
- best conducted via email.
-
- --gregbo
-