Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site hammer.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!orca!hammer!seifert
From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Meeting people via email/net.singles
Message-ID: <1437@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:34:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: hammer.1437
Posted: Tue Aug 13 11:34:06 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 05:51:09 EDT
References: <5557@cbscc.UUCP>  <595@unc.UUCP>
Reply-To: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
Lines: 48

Snoopy:
>> Strangely enough, e-mail proposals for dates get accepted much
>> more often than phone proposals, despite being even *less*
>> personal, and dispite not having even met in many cases.
>> Hmmm, maybe *because* we haven't met!  :-)

Tim Bessie:
>Really?

Yes, really!

>Wait... are you talking about people who go to SCHOOL with you? hmm...
>Despite the net marriages we've been hearing about, I'd like to hear
>from all the people who have actuall met and made dates with people
>via email and/or net.singles, and who AREN'T going to school.  It is
>much easier to make dates with people you go to school with, and I'd
>be interested in finding out about people who met over the net who are
>not in that kind of immediate proximity to each other.

School?  USENET wasn't around when I was in school, you young
whippersnapper!  (We did have v6 UNIX, though)   
No, I'm working on the 6000 series UNIX workstations for
Tektronix.   

I've had real, live, gen-u-ine dates with some very fine ladies from
the east coast, midwest, west, and west coast, and from Canada.
All through the wonder of USENET and e-mail.  Sure it's much easier
to get together with someone who's in the same town, but with a
little ingenuity you can arrange to meet people during conferences,
vacations, trips home to see the family, business trips, and so on.
I only know of a few cases where people have gone cross-country
just to meet a keyboard-pal.  Of course if you do really hit it
off you are then faced with an LDR, or one or both of you moving,
or sadly, dropping the relationship due to distance.

It *can* get rather frustrating to wake up and discover that most
of your friends are scattered all over North America.  It is
also frustrating when you can't manage to get together with
someone without making a special trip (time consuming and expensive).

Snoopy
Graphics Workstations Division, Tektronix
tektronix!hammer!seifert   [from anywhere]
tekecs!snoopy@doghouse.TEK [from within Tek only :-(  ]

UNIX is a trademark of American Dynamite, Belly Wabbitories

"Sex, USENET, and George Winston on solo piano"