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- From: ericf@npic.Corp.Sun.COM (Eric Francis)
- Newsgroups: alt.personals
- Subject: Re: No women posting ? I tell you why..
- Message-ID: <lgi2vpINN7vm@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:12:57 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.213154.5599@umr.edu :
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- In article 5599@umr.edu, martinas@nixon.cs.umr.edu (Martina Schollmeyer) writes:
- :In article <1992Nov16.193956.4319@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com : howeird@hpl.hp.com (Howard Stateman) writes:
- : :Martina Schollmeyer (martinas@cs.umr.edu) wrote:
- : :: Dear male alt.personals readers:
- :
- : [stuff deleted]
- :
- : :: I did not, and I would like to repeat this, I DID NOT post a personal
- : :: ad looking for e-mail pen pals or for a date. Now for all of
- : :: you who sent me e-mail of that kind, think about it for a
- : :: moment please: if I had wanted that kind of response I would
- : :: have posted a personal.
- : :
- : :The group alt.personals is a place to post personals ads, so if
- : :you get email :of that kind" in response to a posting here, you're
- : :only getting what you deserve.
- : :
- : :Think about it. :-)
- :
- :I think about that a lot actually. It just makes me feel even more
- :convicted to declare again that this is exactly the attitude that keeps
- :many women from posting here: because some men think just because we
- :post they can fill our mailboxes with whiny junkmail. I think we deserve
- :to be treated with respect, and as a matter of fact, most men do. But
- :maybe the remaining ones who do stuff like that just can't be helped :(
- :I really don't want to post any of the mail I have received (for obvious
- :reasons) but some of it was just not appropriate.
- :
- :Howard, I hope you also get what you deserve :)
- :
- :--Tina
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-
- I can sympathize with this. I made a comment to a post made last week
- by a woman seeking "Real Men". So far I've received two letters....
-
- Eric
- (I'm a SWM, thank-you-very-much!)
-