Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5g!hou5h!hou5a!hou5d!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!joe From: joe@zinfandel.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Singles Clubs/Organizations and RELI - (nf) Message-ID: <1151@zehntel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29-Jul-83 01:19:47 EDT Article-I.D.: zehntel.1151 Posted: Fri Jul 29 01:19:47 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Aug-83 07:42:05 EDT Lines: 31 #R:hogpd:-10300:zinfandel:10900032:000:1532 zinfandel!joe Jul 28 09:21:00 1983 Hi. Yes, I've seen those questionaires. They come from IDS, ( Intro. Dating Service? ). It is used to rate you on several parameters. Prude-Libertine and Religious-Athiest among the most obvious. What IDS is selling is dates with "compatible " MOTOS. They give you Three or four standard psychologic tests, and arrange meetings on a few per month basis. Pictures are sent to each datee beforehand. This sounds very like the other dating service mentioned on the net, and my guess is that the other is a cheaper copy of IDS because of the fancy testing IDS does and because IDS has been around a long time. IDS also has someone visit you at your home to ask you questions about yourself and probably determine that IDS is for you regardless of your answers. ( within reason ) The kicker is that they ask 1000.00$, that's one thousand American dollars for a year of their service. I might have tried their service for the experience even though my social life at the time was pretty good. Hell, the more the merrier. I'm socailly avaricious; the more friends and lovers I have the better time I give to, and have with them ( within the 24 hours per day limitation). But 1000$ is about five times the maximum I would have considered for their service. The fact that I was happy with my social life as it was discomfitted my interviewer. He seemed to doubt it, to question it. Perhaps they're banking on everybody being unhappy, or something. If you have the money to gamble ( gambol? ) it might be an experience. Joe Weinstein