From: sme3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (SCOTT MATTHEW ESTRIN)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Saying "Penpal Wanted" is reduntant here, right?
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:51:42 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Hello all,
    I seem to have had bad luck with computer penpals.  Out of maybe ten
messages I've replied to over various services (Prodigy, WWIVnet...if you
don't know what these are, e-mail me and I'll explain), I've managed to find
three people whom I write back and forth to regularly.  Somehow, though, my
last letter to all of them has gone unanswered.
    I really don't think I'm a boring person, so why don't people write to me?
I'm posting this message in hopes of finding better luck over UseNet.  I
guess, then, it would be appropriate to introduce myself (it is, after all,
almost the third paragraph...)
    I'm a Freshman at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA (for
you out-of-the-country-folks).  Physical description: eyes, two; hair, yes.  I
really don't consider appearance to be all that important, but if you do,
e-mail me and I'd be more than happy to tell you about myself.  I guess I
should also mention that I'm eighteen years old, and will be nineteen on March
5, 1993.  (Everyone! Make a note of it and stuff my E-mailbox on that date!).
What else can I say?  I guess all I can say is that I'm somewhat abnormal in
my writing style.  People tell me they laugh when they read my letters (no,
this message is not typical of that characteristic), but I tend to babble and
ramble on a lot (and this message IS typical of that).
    Now, who am I looking to write to.  I'd prefer to correspond with a woman
of about the same age as me (give or take a few years).  I'm not trying to
discriminate or find my wife over the UseNet, I just find it more comfortable
writing to women (note on the word "women": I don't use "girl" because it
makes me picture a six-year-old, and I find the word "chick", which is very
commonly used at Lehigh, to be somewhat irrespectable [is that a word?]).
Anyway, (like I said, I ramble often), E-mail would be fine, but after a while
I prefer to write with real, US, 29cents to the Post Office, handwritten in an
envelope type of mail.  What the hell, I'll give you my address (both E- and
US- mail) now... I doubt anyone's gonna break into my PO box and rob me of
everything I own...
            Scott Estrin
            Box 619
            Lehigh University
            29 Trembley Drive
            Bethlehem, PA 18015-3041

            sme3@Lehigh.EDU

    I should warn you though, I won't be here between December 20 and January
18 (I'll be home for semester break), so if you want to rush me mail before
then, great.  If not, I won't be able to reply until the end of January (If
this is the case, Happy New Year and have a good _insert_your_respective_
_religious_December_holiday,_if_any,_here_.
    Thanks for bearing with me through this seemingly long (God, he must be
desperate!) message (actually, it's just a way to put off studying for
tomorrow morning's Calculus final).  I hope to hear from you soon.

                    Only you can prevent forest fires,
                                Scott
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