Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!west From: west@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Steve Westfall) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: net.singles.Jeff Message-ID: <150@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:55:36 EST Article-I.D.: sphinx.150 Posted: Wed Jan 16 16:55:36 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:38:55 EST Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 34 Ron Vaughn writes: >i . . . was catching up on notes from dec. 19 to jan 2, and i happend to notice >in net.singles on my machine there were 42 articles that did NOT refer to >JS, and 34 that were either his, or a follow up to his. that is nearly >half of the notes in the topic!! were they all about new and interesting >things??? of course not. they were all the basic "oh, i'm such a loser, such >a poor christian, i'm not as good a person as christ, i can't find an SO, >i had a terrible childhood, i had a terrible teenage-hood, i'm having a >terrible adult-hood, i can't find myself, i lied and acted to all the people >i met when i toured america, i dislike most of the human race, i'm the problem, >i'm scum" >jeff, it was ok the first time. it was ok, the second time. i didn't mind >the third, but about the 218th time really started to bother me (and >quite a few others) >my god jeff, do you REALLY deserve 32 of 76 articles to be by/about you? all the articles devoted to your "problems". . . . at times you have >a MUCH larger proportion of the net.singles traffic than say net.music.classic >has compared to net.music, yet classic has it's own group. this stuff is >getting OLD jeff. very old! it's dull. it's repititious. >have you ever HONESTLY (i'm very serious) thought about NOT wasting so >much time on the net, and work on all of your "problems" instead? I agree. Let's start net.singles.js or net.singles.Jeff. Then I can unsubscribe from it and quit wearing out my "n" key, and those who want to continue providing extended therapy service to Jeff can subscribe. -- Steve Westfall, Staff Analyst University of Chicago Computation Center uucp: ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!west Mailnet: staff.westfall@UChicago.Mailnet