From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!iy47ab Newsgroups: net.suicide Title: Re: Bimmler sucks Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.393 Posted: Tue Mar 15 10:35:38 1983 Received: Wed Mar 23 02:48:34 1983 References: crimson.1475 mitccc.440 I have only one last thing to say on the subject of bimmler, and then I will be forever silent. I refuse to actively condemn someone, but I have been deeply hurt by being sneakily poked into revealing something about myself that I didn't really want publicly known and so I feel I have to tell this little story, which happened about two years abou ago. (sorry!) I used to be the main female writer on another net when I was working for San Diego City Schools, and one day I was surpri surprised and delighted to find another woman's name on the net. I wrote her a little hello letter, and soon we began corresponding. Within about a month we were fast friends. She was the girl I'd been searching for as a confidante; enough like me that we could get along, not as phony as the women I worked around, and very very likeable. Well, finally, after spilling my guts to her all over the net, I got an anonymous phonecall one day from some male personage telling me that this girl I had become so fond of was in fact a creation of one of his male friends; a fellow I'd met over the net, and had been exceedingly bored by. I didn't believe him, but he kept calling, and finally one day Kevin (the boring one) himself called and admitted his trick. I still didn't believe it, but the girl stopped writing, and I felt very, very hurt. After all, it wasn't that I had so many deep dark secrets; only that I would have liked to know who it was I was telling these things to. Hurt and disappointed, I soon stopped netwriting, and the message/mail programs were removed two weeks later; I had voiced my upset and all the netters ended up boycotting the net. It was removed for lack of use. I think we were all suddenly afraid that the person we were talking to wasn't real. Enough said. Arwen