Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Place to meet "Techies" Message-ID: <1232@peora.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 11:00:33 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1232 Posted: Wed Jul 3 11:00:33 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 05:50:00 EDT References: <1266@eagle.UUCP> <1560106@acf4.UUCP> <733@ihlpg.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 25 > I do. You're in it right now. I've met several really neat people through > ther net and hope I meet many more. It seems like a really safe forum to > exchange feelings and ideas and get to know someone on a different level > than you do at "meat markets". I love it! On the other hand, it has some big disadvantages... (a) Unless you live in one of the big technical communities, most people you meet will be far away. (Having lost many SOs, even highly metaphysical ones, through Long Distance, I am not a big proponent of written communication as a means of sustaining interpersonal communication in the long run, I am afraid.) (b) Often hidden but "important" facts are obscured initially. In some ways this is good, since you can meet persons who you have unjustified prejudices against due to appearance. On the other hand, personally I have had several people who began to write nice communicative letters to me, only to suddenly stop altogether when they discovered I was an "Old Person"... -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Cvpgherf unatvat va n unyyjnl ba gur sentzragf bs n fbat"