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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: What now? (Actually: meeting MOTAS)
Message-ID: <159@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 12:17:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 12:17:19 1985
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>From: beth@umcp-cs.UUCP (Beth Katz)
>Message-ID: <2447@umcp-cs.UUCP>
>
>Note to net.singles readers:  Sometimes these sentiments must be repeated.
>Every so often, people want to know how to get on with their lives or how
>to meet MOTASs.  Does anybody have some other ideas of how they have met
>people in the past?

I just had a rather interesting meeting with a MOTOS last week that seems
apropriate to the net community, so I'd like to share it:

I am a personal computer user and regularly call a local BBS. (Think of it
as a dial-up USENET in microcosm- no pun intended.) One of the groups on the
system is devoted to trivia and, for a while, seemed to have been vacated
by all but a young lady and myself.

After exchanging questions with her for some weeks, I finally got the nerve
up to send her personal mail via the system- nothing much, just a sort of
"who am I dealing with" inquiry. After a while at this we noted that we had
a few interests in common, including a particular movie we both wanted to
see. 

The bottom line is that she gave me her number and we went out one evening
last week. (It's too early to say where it will end up, but I figure "one
step at a time". Jeff, are you reading this?)

Anyway, it to me seemed that this sort of thing could (should? does??)
happen on this net, particularly in one of the high concentration areas. 

**********
Well, that's my story. Any others?


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	John Ruschmeyer		...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john
	Monmouth College
	W. Long Branch, NJ 07764

Kirk:   You ought to sell a manual of instructions with these things.
Cyrano: If I did, Captain... what would happen to the search for knowledge?