Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Just how far can friendship go? - deviding line submitted Message-ID: <1628@hao.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 15:00:42 EDT Article-I.D.: hao.1628 Posted: Fri Jul 12 15:00:42 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jul-85 02:06:03 EDT References: <317@azure.UUCP> <2910@cornell.UUCP> <226@uwvax.UUCP> <239@mcc-db.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 20 > In short, this > whole discussion (about friendship ending and SOship beginning) is > fairly pointless since every person is going to have his or her own > definition of it. There is no big thick black line that you can cross > and say "Aha, now we're SOs!" Life ain't that easy. Exactly. And, similarly, there is no magic opening line (or set of opening lines) that will be guaranteed to work. Some people in this group seem to want a "formula" for how to meet MOTOS (or how to turn meetings into something), but THERE AIN'T NO FORMULA. You will only frustrate yourself if you continue to look for a formula. Formulas work on computers, which are guaranteed to react the same way to the same input data on the same formula. People just DON'T work that way. --Greg -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!noao | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!noao} !hao!woods CSNET: woods@NCAR ARPA: woods%ncar@CSNET-RELAY