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- From: wright@duca.hi.com (David Wright)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Newspaper "personals"
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 12:02:38 -0000
- Organization: Hitachi Computer Products, OSSD division
- Lines: 24
- Message-ID: <1hv93eINN466@duca.hi.com>
- References: <1992Dec26.082658.1422@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: duca.hi.com
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- In article <1992Dec26.082658.1422@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> aguilbault@galaxy.gov.bc.ca writes:
- >OK, OK, I'm going to post something. I just happened upon soc.singles and
- >am both interested and disgusted in the material here. Maybe this is a FAQ
- >but here goes anyway...
- >
- >Serious Question: Do newspaper "Personals" advertisements work? What kind
- >of experiences (good and bad) have _net_ people had? What techniques can
- >make them work better?
-
- I answered some recently. A couple of the women whose ads I answered
- called me back. I've met both of them. One didn't go anywhere after
- the first meeting, the other one, well, too early to tell.
-
- To make them work better if you're answering, answer FAST. Some ads
- generate a blizzard of responses and if you're 63rd in line, well, you
- figure the odds.
-
- To make them work better if you're writing one, you need to devote a
- lot of thought to both what you want and what you're like. It's tough
- to express it all in, say, 30 words, but worth the effort.
-
- -- David Wright, Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
- wright@hicomb.hi.com
-
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