HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Kiran Wagle
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 09:53:08 GMT

thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:

>Truth in advertising time - I flipped when the first page of articles
>came up composed entirely of Kiran Wagle postings.  Gods!  They all
>expired before I read any of them, so I don't know if they were worth
>their bandwidth or not, but I confess that I wonder if Kiran had to
>post quite that many articles, at least in one shot.  A little more
>moderation might indeed be in order from some of our superstars :-)

As I siad somewhere else, but shall repeat:  I came back from a month
of travelling out East, visting friends and meeting net-people (I must
remember to speak of Sheba's studio sometime) and trying new and fabled
restaurants, and posted about 15 articles at once.  But that night,
the posting software was a bit wonky, and article bodies contained
just the Date: header and two or three random lines of text.  I have
no idea why.  Anyway, I had to post articles, read them, and cancel and
repost the ones that didn't get thru.  I tried to cancel all of the
duplicates, and if any got thru I am sorry.  

When I first started reading rec.food.cooking, someone's posting
software got stuck in a groove (that image will be obsolete in a few
years) and posted dozens (literally) of copies of a recipe for
"Buffalo Chicken Wings."  That is when I learned about kill files... 

Last year some machine was sending out streams of old news (months or
years old.)  We had to turn off our newsfeed from that machine till
the problem was fixed.  

And of course there is the now-legendary story about Apple's bad
mail header which generated thousands of (email) error messages...

-- 
"(1) The Chamois is a little animal used for polishng windows."
     ....footnote from Will Cuppy's _How to Attract The Wombat_
-- 
Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
Subject:  Commitment--The C-word? Juha, really. People are watching.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:39:37 GMT

In article <29101@hydra.Helsinki.FI> taina@cs.Helsinki.FI (Juha Taina) writes:
>
>Your posts here are so incredible charming and they must reflect
>something from the inner beauty of your soul that only true jewels of
>time, space and humanity have.  I wish that I could write even half
>as well as you.  Anyone who has the privilege to be called your friend
>is a really lucky person.
>Juha Taina | taina@cs.helsinki.fi | Phone: +358-0-708-4247
 
Juha. Don't. Your making me blush.
Really I just throw them out for whatever their worth.
P.S.
Since your from Finland, what the hey, call me Sylvia.

 
================================================================================
 Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. DoD#564. There ain't no more.
================================================================================
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: barry@netcom.com (Kenn Barry)
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 17:00:55 GMT
Organization: QQQCLC
Keywords: encourage friendship?

In article <1992Sep1.135102.21012@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
>What we have here is any time a man
>compliments a woman's contribution, he's accused of sucking up.  Result?
>Men will be leery of agreeing with a woman's point of view here because
>they don't want someone to accuse them of doing so to win her affectations.

	I agree completely.

						Kayembee :-)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG (Larry 'Purple' Hays)
Subject: Re: Stupid Newsgroup
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 17:52:54 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Technet   Albuquerque, NM
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG

In article <1992Sep1.222201.12237@tamsun.tamu.edu>, peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram) writes:
>Hi,
>
>	This newsgroup has become really stupid,
>	and mundane.  It used to be that you would 
>	find gems of advice here, no more.
>
>	Hope you people think before you post your
>	junk.
>
>Suresh  (lurker)


Thank you for that *LOVELY* rendition...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Larry 'Purple' Hays                                         hays@technet.nm.org

  "You're an asshole, You're an asshole, You're an asshole"  - Frank Zappa
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Oh, no! Statistics! Run!! :-)
Date: 25 Aug 92 16:49:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug24.220138.18412@news2.cis.umn.edu> lsmith@unity.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:
|In article <1992Aug24.210427.28776@news.acns.nwu.edu> drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max) writes:
|>In article <14238@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|>
|>>Still, I wouldn't mind having a Lotus.
|>>
|>I wouldn't mind have an old Jag, and the mechanic to keep it running of
|>course. 
|
|Mechanic? Singular? Hell, you need at least two mechanics for the E-type rear
|suspension alone. 
 
I guess this tells us something about Jaguars.  Max can build her own house
but maintaining a Jaguar is a job for a professional.

|And they need at least one assistant to keep their tools in order.
 
Some of us are able to keep our tools in order, thank you.  They may not
be well behaved but that's another story.

|You don't even want to know about the Nubian slaves required to change the
|oil every week.
 
I do. And please provide details.  Is this the place where you can get a 
complete lube job in 20 minutes or less.

-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
+============================================================================++
From: swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: we bit the suck-up  Re: Can can?
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:56:09 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <r_jn_xp.gerg@netcom.com> gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>In article <Btvp6v.LD6@acsu.buffalo.edu> swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann) writes:
>>>What, if someone who happens to be male compliments the posts of someone
>>>who happens to be female, this is sucking up?
>>
>>Only if it's done right.  Hey, you think it's easy?  And you know, if
>>it wasn't for the terrific women on this newsgroup, it just wouldn't
>>be worth it.
>
>Stephen, that doesn't even register on the SuckupMeter. An integral part of
>a suckcessful suckup is subtlety and the element of surprise. You didn't 
>quite manage either one. So sorry.

I want a second opinion! 

Dammit, I knew I shoulda stuck to the subtle route.  These "athletic"
suckups just aren't my forte.

-- 
Steve Swann                 |    Speak to me in many voices; make
swann@acsu.buffalo.edu      |      them all sound like one...  -BOC
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:55:34 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug31.102057.4969@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
|
|No record of where I ate, but I do remember eating a pasty.
|

I remember eating a Patsy too, or was it Patty.

Oh, you said pasty.  Nevermind.

-- 
+============================================================================++
| John Fereira            "Is that all you ever think about?"                |
| johnf@auspex.com                                                           |
+============================================================================++
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Kiran Wagle
Date: 30 Aug 92 22:21:12 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:

>software got stuck in a groove (that image will be obsolete in a few
>years) 

But will probably still be used - just like "carriage return".

--
Stef             A cat and his owner see a relationship counselor:
stef@apple.com   "He doesn't want you to run the vacuum cleaner or 
                 go out on dates."                      --Nicole Hollander
From: swann@acsu.buffalo.edu (Stephen Swann)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Finding Romantic Partners (on the net)
Date: 28 Aug 92 02:53:06 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: UB

In article <1992Aug27.194615.20442@panix.com> pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich) writes:
>>>Don't encourage her; she's just trying to make Paul jealous.  :-)
>>
>>Umm .. how could I do that?  I never knew friends got jealous over their
>>friends liasons ... besides, I know where my heart is and it's not NYC.
>
>Have I just been LJBF'd in front of 100,000 people?

Nah, she never even mentioned how she Just Wasn't Ready For Commitment
(except to somebody else, who she's already selected), which is a 
really critical part of the formal LJBF ritual.  ;-)

>paul     ask me about columbus, i dare ya

What's this about Columbus, Paul?

-- 
Steve Swann                 |    Speak to me in many voices; make
swann@acsu.buffalo.edu      |      them all sound like one...  -BOC
From: jclark@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Film suggestions welcomed
Date: 4 Sep 92 00:13:23 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <37652@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> jclark@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (John Clark) writes:
+
+(Hint: There aren't any Elephants out on the open range in Africa,

Ugh... that Australia, not Africa...

+and by the size of the Elephant's ears one can eliminate India.)
-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:29:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.212016.14566@odin.corp.sgi.com> lana@magenta.corp.sgi.com (Lana Mountford) writes:

>|> >>by making choices that were right for me, and not try to live according
>|> >>to someone else's script.  That realization changed my life, very
much for the better!  :-)
>
>
>Hmmmm ... perhaps.  And again, it may be an "age thing."  I dunno, though.
>A lot of women I know are like me (admittedly, most of us are in our
>late-30s/early-40s, and are the products of at least one failed marriage).
>I think it takes a certain amount of life experience to get to this point,
>perhaps.  I'm curious whether a younger (<30 yrs old) woman who grew up with 
>a mother who is this way might also exhibit these characteristics?
>
I can't say that it took any of the kind of life experience you guys talk
about for me to come to this conclusion, actually my first realization that
I simply was much better off writing my own script came to me in 9th grade
(I think I was mostly living that way all along anyway but it was my first
concious realization that not everyone did this). My mom is definately not
this way herself, she tries to please everyone in every way. Maybe it was
her constant failure to make herself happy doing this that sent me in
another direction. I also have a father who never discouraged me (and in
fact encouraged me) from doing "boy stuff" like building things or going
fishing or playing football in the backyard with the neighborhood kids. I
guess he always let me know that he believed that I could do anything I set
my mind to and that may have made the difference. On the other hand it
could all be genetics since the earliest stories my family tell of me are
ones where I'm being very adament about getting what I want :-).

Max
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Lurkers...
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:26:38 GMT

dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
>Well, in my case, I try my best but sometimes I get 10 or more messages
>a day.  

Only ten?  How can you _stand_ it?

>So it may not be cliquiness or unfriendliness, but a lack of time or a
>touch of paranoia, justifiable or not.  There's a couple of regulars here
>who never answer my letters either.

Some people always answer their email.  Get two of these people
together, and you may well end with an endless stream of small and
meaningless letters flowing back and forth over the sub-etha waveband.  
Always answering mail can be a pain.

Trust me.  I used to be one of those people.  

I still answer most of the mail I get.  (A note for certain former
lurkers: it is, you know, possible to present two opposing viewpoints
in the same post.  Some of us can even do six, and before breakfast to
boot.)

I still answer most of the mail I get.  Short story time. Once upon a
time (is this a better posting style?) it was a dark and stormy night.
Great welts of green static crackled across the sub-etha waveband,
posts flickered into and out of this plane of existence, whole
newsgroups arose, grew, and died in the flicker of an eye....
and a new reader sat trying to decide whether to jump in and be called
an ass.  Hm, he mused, as the terminal's glare flickered across the
whites of his eyes.  I might like a new email friend.  No reason to
write her, but everybody I've ever met named ---- has been worth
getting to know.  So he sent her one of those dreaded one line
messages: "I wish more people would take this attitude, and go off and
have some fun."  And lo and behold, she always writes back... "And
btw, I liked what you said to Mocsny."  In slightly over a year,
that correspondence is now a bit more than three megabytes. 

On the other hand (shamless confession time: this story contains an
untruth.  But a good story is always better than a true story.)  When
I was not so new, I saw a post from a newbie, who had just become a
single mother and was complaining about stretch marks. I thought
perhaps she needed a bit of sympathy, so I dropped her a line "It's
not so bad..."  Of course, (this is the other hand, after all) she
never wrote back.  Well, this newbie survived her welcome by Dan, and
went on to become a regular.  I wrote her again. And again, "I liked
yuor .sig"  This time, she wrote back, and has become a dear friend.
(She later said that only three people wrote her about that first
post, and those three have become her best correspondents.) 

So answer your mail or don't.  I don't care.  Works both ways.

-- 
"Arthur bruised his upper arm."







-- 
Kiran Wagle     <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>     (812) 335-0420
From: rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 22:39:08 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wild Rose Refugee Camp

cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass) writes:

> (Unless 'down the road' means at *LEAST* a 2 hour drive away!!)  You 
> can keep the glitzy neon out of my dreams - thank you very much James!!
> ...... 
> On the other hand - if you want to join in - how about a sporting goods
> retail/rental place.  Put on your jeans and flannel shirt - you might
> even get to help 'first time rock climber females' get fitted for their 
> climbing harnesses and 'baby climbing shoes'! :)

Some bad news for you, Cindy (and James).  Neon, lots of neon lycra, is
de rigeur for sport climbers out here (Idaho/Wyoming) nowadays.  
Clerks in sporting goods stores are expected to be wearing the latest,
of course, so the jeans&flannel routine doesn't sell much softwear.

Now, shall we check the fit on those lycra tights?

-- Ray

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drmax@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marianna Max)
Subject: Re: Las Vegas
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:51:38 GMT


I know I shouldn't do this but Oh hell I just have to its too precious.
Besides I've left off his name and I think you can tell from what he said
that he must not read s.s. anyway

After the second "updated" letter he sent me I responded with the following.

        "This is the second time you have sent me such a letter."

And received the following response:

"Sorry for the mix-up....I would still like to correspond with you. I 
promise personal mail to you only. The other was to cut through repeated 
mismash. I'm writing to you because I thought it might be fun to make a 
new friend, that's all. If your not interested I will not pursue it."


Ahhhh email fidelity, ain't it wonderful.

Max - oh I feel sooo unethical - But while I'm at it someone ask james why
he's suddenly interested in German culture.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rock@medch.b17b.ingr.com (Chris Hudson)
Subject: Re: Can we can the suck-up bit?
Keywords: encourage friendship?
Reply-To: rock@medch.b17a.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:14:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.135102.21012@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
|> In article <14390@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|> 
|> No it hasn't.  Quite different.  What we have here is any time a man
|> compliments a woman's contribution, he's accused of sucking up.  Result?
|> Men will be leery of agreeing with a woman's point of view here because
|> they don't want someone to accuse them of doing so to win her affectations.
|> Isn't that rather childish?
|> >
|> >Some men actually like to do nice things for people (even if they happen
|> >to be female) because they get enjoyment from doing nice things for people.
|> >Some men do nice things for women even though they are capable of doing 
|> >it themselves.  
|> 
|> OK fine John.  Suppose you go to do something nice for a women because
|> it gives you a nice warm fuzzy feeling to be a nice person, and some
|> idiot accuses you publicly of "sucking up."  That OK with you, or don't
|> you think it just might get a tad bit annoying?
|> 

Doesn't annoy me.  I don't compliment people lightly.  If I try to suck up to
someone it's done in a humorous way.  I have agreed with a lot of posts on
soc.singles.  I rarely look at the person's name as much as I do the subject. 
If someone wants to accuse me of sucking up that's something they have to deal
with, not me.  Besides, it seems that most of the time the accusations of
sucking-up are done in fun.  

Chris Hudson

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Seesters, I want the seesters.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:46:43 GMT
Distribution: na
Reply-To: margoli@watson.ibm.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Village Waterbed

In  <1992Aug26.124728.16686@cbfsb.cb.att.com>  jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
>
>  Might they have any sisters, my good man?

You want seesters?  How about a pair of twins and a third sister, all
blonde, Irish, built, and over here making money as exotic dancers?

Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: dl@cockatoo.bellcore.com (Daniel Liebster)
Subject: Re: Tallllll women....
Organization: Morristown Research and Engineering
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 14:37:52 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.213938.12050@gvl.unisys.com>, liz@prc.unisys.com (Liz Loquacious) writes:
|> In article <tvkn3!c@lynx.unm.edu>, blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
|> |> Ahh, sigh.
|> |> Was watching one of the syndicated talk shows (Montel Williams). They was
|> |> talking to, sigh, tall women. There was one 6'9", one 6'3", and 2 6'2" women.
|> |> They was complaining they can't find good tall men. 
|> |> 
|> |> Me? I was screaming here on the other side of the screen 'YO! Over here!'
|> 
|> What if I got on my tippie toes and hollered over the net "Over here"!
|> 
|> 
|> Liz Loquacious - (5' 10 1/2", a good six foot or more on my toes!)
|> 

Or a very good 6'2" in nice heels and a pair of fishnet stockings ?

dan
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Commitment--The C-word?
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:37:07 GMT

>nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:

>I don't know about you, but I don't have a hard time weeding the happy
>peaceful content people from the stoic advice-givers in this group.  It's
>VERY easy.  One group speaks from hypothetic conclusions; the other from life.

Now, this is interesting. Which do you think is which? And don't you think
it depends rather heavily on the individual's life experience? I'm sure life
has taught you very different things than it has taught me.

jds

***************************************************************************
                               * Health and knowledge and wealth and power,
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smith@fl08-g.comm.mot.com      * I wear a smile like a leather glove,
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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: cocoa@iat.holonet.net (little 'e')
Subject: Moctezuma's Fantasy
Organization: The Chocolate Factory
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 05:08:45 GMT


In article <1992Aug26.223614.25162@linus.mitre.org> wtr@mitre.org (Bill Ralston) writes:
>in article <ewillims.714843551@unix1.tcd.ie> ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma 
>Williams) writes:
>
>[previous thread history deleted]
>
>>        Weird as it sounds, chocolate sauce on meat is an original use
>>for chocolate. The Aztecs used to use it as a sauce and regarded it as
>>delicacy. That's what I call chocoholism.....my kind of people! (*GRIN*)

"Dios mio!  Mole en Irlanda?"  I didn't know the Aztec Empire had been
extended that far.

>It's called Mole sauce and it is *good*.  There's a southern mexican style 
>restaurant here (Boston) that serves dishes with that and other 
>Aztec-style dishes that is really good (perhaps an excuse in itself for a 
>Boston-Boink).

Yes, Mole is pretty great stuff.  Especially when it's homemade.  I think
I'll put it on the menu for my next boink event in honor of Mexico's
Independence Day.  So stay tuned for more details, and get ready for lots
of chocolaty delights.

>  In addition, the Mole sauce has seemed to have an 
>aphrodisiac effect on the ladies I've taken there. Heh heh heh...

Does this mean "If I cook it, they will come!"?


Just me,

little 'e'

p.s.  My e-mail access time is *extremely* limited these days, so mail may take
      a while.  Those who have my phone# are welcome to call me instead.

"Viva Mexico! Viva America! Viva Warner Bros.!"
"Andale!! Andale!! Yippa!!" - little 'e'




-- 
*  *  *    Chocolatier at Arms, and Castle Wetware Liason            *  *  *
*  *   e-mail: cocoa@iat.holonet.net    -     voicemail: 415-337-4940   *  *
From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Lurkers...
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:19:59 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

dheisler@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dave Heisler) writes:

>From article <1992Aug26.192500.21837@cs.hw.ac.uk>, by neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite):
>> 
>> Though one things that put off some lurkers I guess, many of the regulars
>> or soc.singles 'old timers' (for want of a better word) seem to have their
>> cliques and are always having their little digs back and forth and I guess
>> people feel a little left out.
>> 
Soc.singles is like a soap opera. If you follow it for at least one week,
you can figure out pretty much everything that's going on. (However, you
might get hooked...you might end up really caring when trygve will next say
"Don't worry, I'm a doctor" or you might lie awake nights wondering whom
Larry is going to suck up to next.)

>      you email someone who posts and they never reply.
>      (yes, assuming it it got there) 

I usually respond to the first email someone sends--I even wrote Mr Las
Vegas telling him why a form letter was not going to work to get him
correspondents or dates. But after that I only keep writing if they have 
something interesting to say. 

--
Stef                            Carpe diem (fish for ten cents)
stef@apple.com                                  --Usenet Oracle