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Re: People who expect the net to bow and scrape for them (AAaarrrggghhhhh!)

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From: Avery Colter
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1992 07:40
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jamesf@public.BTR.COM (James G. Franklin  jamesf@btr.com) writes:

>In article myoung@joker.asd.sgi.com (Mark Young) writes:
>>
>>Why even reply with a response like this...not only does it sound snooty,
>>it doesn't answer the question...

>Of course it doesn't answer the question, you bonehead, it wasn't supposed
>to. I replied with that because there is a vast cultural and societal
>diversity in the south bay, and to give a generic answer touching all the
>singles' bars would take huge amounts of time and would cause the reader
>to die from boredom before finding what they were looking for. I was simply
>"prodding" for the poster to narrow things down a bit.

True enough. We could all take a crack at this, but we all prefer different
places anyway, and those preferences carry certain assumptions with them.
In my case, and probably in a few other peoples', to assume this guy is looking
for the same kind of single people I am could be disasterous.

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Subject: Re: People who expect the net to bow and scrape for them (AAaarrrggghhhhh!)
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Message-ID: <1992Jan02.074046.17117avery@netcom.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 92 07:40:46 GMT
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