Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!fluke!ssc-vax!keith From: keith@ssc-vax.UUCP (Keith Nemitz) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: net.peacock? Message-ID: <97@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 17:40:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.97 Posted: Tue Aug 6 17:40:08 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 02:57:32 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 23 Taking my life into my own fingers, I would like to question what is the purpose of net.singles. Now, I've only been on a month, but that means I've read at least a thousand messages. From most of them, re and counter re's, there seems to be a fierce game of one upmanship going on. I have seen innocent statements picked apart and subjects continued far longer than the original message ever intended being worried about. On the other side of the coin, there seems to be many serious discussions where each participant was not out to shoot another down but to merely state his opinion. This is great. What better way to describe ones self than through expounding of one's beliefs. In many ways net.singles seems to be a valve for it's members to just talk. I am personally interested in seeing more of a variety in subjects, and in this vein I hope to get myself to change from an observer's point of view to that of a participant. So, hello all. I am very glad to make your aquaintances and I hope my mailbox will be filled with greetings from any who want to get to know someone new. keith