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From: west@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Steve Westfall)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: net.singles.Jeff
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:55:36 EST
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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.

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			Steve Westfall, Staff Analyst
			University of Chicago Computation Center
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