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- From: atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas)
- Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.021605.22785@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- References: <16585@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 02:16:05 GMT
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- In article 16585@auspex-gw.auspex.com, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
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- >First of all, I don't condone posting personal ads in soc.singles. That
- >said:
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- I believe I found an erogenous zone.
-
- >In article <1993Jan22.040131.21412@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA writes:
- >>In article 10561@ringer.cs.utsa.edu, sgokhale@lonestar.utsa.edu (Shashank S. Gokhale) writes:
- >|
- >|>hey you yes you. why do you make fun of people like this?
- >|
- >|I will attempt to answer your question because you are the only one in
- >|history to reply to one of these very volatile flames. Man, do you have
- >|guts!
- >
- >Volitile flames? Hardly. I'll elaborate in a minute.
-
- I love being loved.
-
- >|Essentially, soc.singles is a discussion group where regulars go around
- >|exchanging ideas about any topic that comes to mind. I would have blasted you
- >|no matter what you wrote because what you wrote was a PERSONAL AD!!!!
- >|
- >|I am giving you a clue: soc.singles regulars like myself get extremely
- >|PISSED OFF when they see personal ads.
- >
- >I'm not sure that you should be speaking for soc.singles regulars when you
- >make the claim that they get extremely PISSED OFF by the mere appearance
-
- Golden showers? I didn't know you had that among your kinks.
- I thank you for sharing that with me.
-
- >First of all, with the emergence of the anonymous posting service personal
- >ads are finding their way onto soc.singles with great frequency. As a
- >result, a neophyte reader is going to see them and might figure that they
- >are acceptable here. Your initial "flame" did little to discourage any
- >future personal ads. In fact, it served no purpose whatsoever. To another
- >new reader of the group it merely looks like some asshole making fun of
-
- Doggie style? That's lots of fun, John!
-
- >Second, the personal ad was basically pretty innocous. He sounded sincere,
- >didn't do a lot of chest pounding, and it certainly didn't warrent the
- >kind of abuse that you felt was necessary. You might notice the also
- >posted to the alt.personals groups and soc.penpals. The mere inclusion of
- >soc.singles in the newsgroups line is hardly a cause for great alarm. Your
- >response looked more like an ego boost to show that I know more about the
- >net than you do.
-
- Oh lord! It's hard to be humble!!!!
-
- >| If you go into a pub and scream out
- >|"HEY! ALL YOU GIRLS OVER THERE! I'M LOOKING FOR WOMEN! I WANT TO TALK TO YOU!!!"
- >|What do you think their reaction would be?
- >
- >I've used a similar arguement (except that it involved a cocktail party and
- >a walking billboard) in an attempt to convince someone that personal ads
- >were not an effective way to meet someone in this forum. How you expected
- >Shashank to derive this message from your original flame, I don't know.
- >Again, the flame had no socially.singles redeaming value.
-
- Well, I wasn't exactly trying to be sociable. Wanna dance?
-
- >So you translated his posting using a impersonation of the grammer and
- >accent of an Indian person that was just learning the English language.
- >That didn't make him look stupid. It just made you look insensitive to
- >a persons feeling and culture.
-
- Whatever you say, Darling.
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- dreas (blows a kiss)
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