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From: hagouel@ittvax.UUCP (Jack Hagouel)
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Subject: Re: The realities of mod.personal
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From Chuq:

> In case you haven't noticed, Usenet is spread over a rather wide geographic
> area. Like, for example, the earth. There are sites in Asia, in Australia,
> in Europe and in the United States and Canada.
> 
> The thought of running a personal advertisement over that area and have any
> chance of having something positive happen is ludicrous. 
>

It is always possible to assign moderators for densely (net)populated areas
like NY, NJ, SF, LA and possibly campuses. This will limit the distribution
to a manageable location. 

I think that personal ads on the network is a terrific idea.
It allows contact of people with 
similar intrerests (i.e. list groups subscribed) in a non-invasive manner
(exchange of messages is different than exchange of addresses or telephones)

Furthermore, it will increase the network user community by offering
a (popular?) service which does not exist today.

Jack