Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!dbb From: dbb@fluke.UUCP (Dave Bartley) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Anita's question Message-ID: <745@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 16:44:44 EDT Article-I.D.: vax1.745 Posted: Tue Oct 2 16:44:44 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Oct-84 04:05:11 EDT References: <1227@drux3.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 45 A few ramblings, if you will... > Is anyone else as tired of seeing Jeff Sargent's personalized psychological/ > religious/sexual/emotional therapy on the net as I am? ... Looking back on the topics that have been tossed around net.singles for the last year, I daresay half of them have originated from articles Jeff has submitted. Now, I'm glad I'm not Jeff, but good ideas have been expressed as a result of his questions and struggles to grow and gain self-esteen. Most of the articles to which I give the 'n' treatment are either some topic which has grown out of hand (e.g. A says B is a bigot, B says A is a bigot, repeated ad infinitum) or questions of terminology (e.g. when should I use "girl" or "woman"? or what do all them acronyms mean?) It would streamline net.singles to keep issues like religion and gay rights in their own newsgroups, but everything's tied together, especially if religion or your sexual orientation is pivotal to your world view. The active newsgroups list doesn't give much guidance, to wit: > net.singles Newsgroup for single people, their activities, etc. So, what should we talk about, anyway? At the moment, the clearest answer I can think of is: any topic pertaining to our relationships and ourselves. Every one of us will find topics that fit such general qualifications which drive us up the wall, especially if they've just been discussed in net.singles last month. As to the articles coming from those <10 people, several of those select few have a lot of good things to say (hats tip'd to our resident Vegan and to our pasta chef extraordinaire, for example). I'm not in Jeff's situation (I'm scheduled to leave singlehood in four months, for example) but there's much to learn. Gotta go (sigh, and I haven't concluded yet). -- Dave Bartley UUCP: {decvax,ihnp4}!uw-beaver! John Fluke Mfg Co. {sun,allegra}! fluke!dbb Everett, WA USA {ucbvax,hplabs}!lbl-csam!