A summary for those that haven’t been keeping up with this series:
I found a number of 5.25″ disks at a thrift store a number of years ago. I finally got around to acquiring a 5.25″ disk drive and extracting the contents a while back. Since then I have been posting the contents here.
Based on the contents, at least some of these disks were apparently once owned by someone named Connie who used to run the “Close Encounters” Special Interest Group (SIG) on Delphi in the mid 1980s.
A specific definition of this SIG was found in a document on one of the disks: “This SIG, known as ‘Close Encounters’, is a forum for the discussion of relationships that develop via computer services like the Source, CompuServe, and Delphi. Our primary emphasis is on the sexual aspects of those relationships.”
This service was text based and was accessed via whatever terminal program you used on your computer to dial in to Delphi’s servers. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I don’t know if there are any archives in existence today of what was on Delphi in the 1980s. In any case, much of this stuff would have been private at the time and probably wouldn’t be in such archives even if they existed.
This post includes the contents of NEWCONTS.DOC dated October 20th, 1985. It is a message containing an update set of rules for a sexual trivia contest being run on the Close Encounters SIG.
See the previous post here.
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2 20-OCT BRIEF CONTEST RULES AMENDED
Close Encounters Sig
Sexual Trivia Contest Rules.
This month in Close Encounters, we will be starting
a 'sexual trivia' contest with the official questions
and answers being taken from the game of the same name
and other sources.
Each month on the second Sunday, we will post in the
forum under the 'playground' topic, the 10 questions
for the month.
All members of the Close Encounters Sig are eligible to
play regardless of when they joined except for the sig
managers, sysops, and members of their immediate families.
Answers to the questions are to be sent to LADYLOVE
via dmail only. Any answers <replies> posted in the
forum section will be automatically dis-qualified and
deleted. If you have trouble sending mail to LADYLOVE,
you may send your entry to any sig manager/sysop.
The winner will be the first person to get either all the
questions correctly answered, or the most correct answers.
You may answer any or all of the questions at any time up until
midnight of the second Saturday following the posting of the
questions, however, the winner <and runner up> will both be
determined by the date/time stamp on the mail file listing for
the last entry. The decision of the judges will be final.
Restrictions do apply
We would expect that if you have access to the game 'Sexual
Trivia', that you will dis-qualify yourself from participating
since this will give you an unfair advantage over others who
do not have the game or access to it.
In an effort to keep the game interesting and competitive,
and as fair as possible, the winner of one game will be asked
not to participate in the next months game only.
Of course there will be prizes.
Otherwise why have the contest at all? The winners will
receive a payment to their Delphi accounts of $1.00 for each
correct <or most nearly correct as determined by the judges>
answer from SLG ASSOCIATES.
The runner-up in each months contest will receive a prize
of $4.00 also paid to their account.
The winning answers.
The winning answers along with the official correct answers
and the names of both the winner and runner-up will be posted
in the forum section as soon as possible after the current
contest.
Disclaimer
The above contest rules are subject to change without notice
as is the value and method of issue of prizes. SLG Associates
warrants only that all questions and answers will be exactly
as they are presented in the sources of such information and
will not be responsible for the accuracy of such sources.
Also, SLG Associates responsibility for collection and
accounting of valid entries will extend only to such
entries actually received via the electronic mail facility
of Delphi in accordance with the rules stated above.
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