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- From: ptownson@snark.LCS.MIT.EDU (Patrick A. Townson)
- Subject: Re: New Service, an alternative to alt.personals, PLEASE read.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.004247.11591@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Followup-To: ptownson@snark.lcs.mit.edu
- Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
- Organization: Just me
- References: <1993Jan22.204558.137@fuug.fi>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:42:47 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.204558.137@fuug.fi> an5382@anon.penet.fi writes:
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- > there who are interested in finding a significant other but have
- > become tired of the *noise* on groups like alt.personals. I'll try to
- > keep it short, sweet, and simple.
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- > I was introduced to the net a couple of months ago and was delighted to find
- > that there are newsgroups such as alt.personals and alt.personals.ads whose
- > primary reason for existing, so I thought, was for people to solicit e-mail
- > correspondence from others; correspondence that may lead to mutually
- > satisfying friendships or more. Unfortunately, these groups appear to be
- < primarily for people to flame each other, post fake messages, etc. I'll not
- < be surprised if many people, especially women, have become *lurkers* and
- > cynics. I thought there must be other ways for people to find the kind of
- > friend, partner that they are looking for.
-
- Another good alternative way to post personal messages and listen to
- the messages of others is through a phone service like:
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- ZIP CODE 69 - AMERICA'S KINKY POST OFFICE 312-465-7200
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- This is a voice BBS offering personal voicemail boxes and various
- message bases of interest to all sexual lifestyles.
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- There is no charge to post messages or listen to any messages (except
- whatever you pay for a phone call to Chicago -- about 12-13 cents a
- minute during off-peak and weekend hours). There is no charge to have
- a voicemail box, but you buy a passcode to listen to messages left in
- your box or if you want to leave messages to others you hear in the
- personals. The passcode is $20, that buys about 25-30 accesses to the
- box to pick up your mail, etc (or leave messages to other boxes.)
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- A lot of people are finding voicemail a much preferable way to meet
- others of similar interests without having to wait for magazine ads to
- be published, replies to be forwarded, etc.
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- The operator of this service (312-465-7200) has agreed to give free 20
- minute passcodes (you probably would get 4-5 calls of 4-5 minutes
- each) free to Usenet readers who want to try the system, and hopefully
- give good reports about it on the net.
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- When you call, enter 0 (zero) as the 'new user passcode' and follow
- the voice prompts by pressing the buttons on your touch tone phone.
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- Patrick Townson
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