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From: nadya@dartvax.UUCP (Nadya M. Labib)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: How net.personals would work
Message-ID: <3591@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 04:34:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.3591
Posted: Tue Sep 17 04:34:02 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 05:12:07 EDT
References: <3850024@csd2.UUCP> <211@laidbak.UUCP> <675@adobe.UUCP>
Reply-To: nadya@dartvax.UUCP (Nadya M. Labib)
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Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Keywords: ridiculous

In article <675@adobe.UUCP> greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid) writes:
>In article <211@laidbak.UUCP> jeq@laidbak.UUCP (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
>1>In article <3850024@csd2.UUCP> schwrtze@csd2.UUCP (Eric Schwartz group) writes:
>>>It just occured to me that if a net.personals was to be considered then
>>>surely one person would moderate it and leave No name or site address
>>
>>By way of insuring privacy, perhaps the ideal solution
>>would be to automate the whole process.
>
>This is all bullshit.
>
>The reason net.personals is such a good idea is that nobody has to go through
>anybody else (like a moderator) to get "set up" with some dream-body.
>
>The reason it is such a bad idea is that nobody will post to it, because
>nobody wants to be made a fool of on the net, and because it is ridiculous to
>have somebody moderate something like this.
>

Who is going to be made a fool of?  Probably someone who has a phobia about
being open and free.  You sound too uptight.  Maybe you need a vacation?
 
This isn't net.flame you know.