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- From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
- Subject: Re: SM ISO MAIL
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.215258.530@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
- References: <16585@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1993Jan23.021605.22785@sol.UVic.CA> <thurlow.727888292@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:52:58 GMT
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- In article <thurlow.727888292@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
- >In article 16585@auspex-gw.auspex.com, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >I doubt our problem with personal ads resides with the people who
- >take any time to find out what the group is like. I think it's
- >more likely that they scan their .newsrc for likely targets before
- >they read anything at all in the affected groups.
- >
- >Rob T
-
- Yep, I agree, which is why I suggested that the anon posting server
- include a strongly worded caution against posting personals to
- inappropriate groups in the directions for posting anonomously. This would
- tend to discourage the merely clueless and leave only the truly arrogant
- "I'm above the rules" types as flamebait.
-
- Max
-