From: admin@sai.com
Subject: Using the alt.personals.ads EZ-Intro Contact Service (ECS)
Followup-To: alt.personals
Reply-To: admin@lemuria.sai.com
Organization: EZ-Intro Contact Service @ cupid.sai.com
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 05:30:11 GMT

INTRODUCTION TO THE ALT.PERSONALS.ADS EZ-Intro Contract Service (ECS)

Last update: 30 July 1992

What is this EZ-Intro Contact Service?

It is a service to provide a safe and confidential method to contact other
"singles" for the purpose of forming a long term personal relationship.  
Postings and replies are anonymous.  


		******	Do's  ******

1.  Give a lot of details about yourself. 

2.  Specify exactly the type of person you are looking for.  It works better
than saying "Hi, I am a 26 year guy looking for SWF."  No limits as to the
length of your message, only what you think a reader can bear.

3.  Post only personals.  

4.  Do let admin@sai.com know of any problems.


			****** Don't  ******

1.  Any solicitations for SEX or references to sex acts ISO will be rejected.

2.  No posting from marrieds.  (Married == someone living with someone else
				with the intent to stay in the relationship)

3.  Don't post test messages.  They will be deleted without notification.

4.  DON'T USE THIS SYSTEM for anything unlawful.

5.  No Flaming. This isn't a system for you to flame, bash, 
	etc. someone anonymously. 

6.  Don't use your or anyone else's email address in your postings.

7.  Don't bother flaming if you don't like the policy.  It will just
	waste your time and net bandwidth.  


In order to provide anonymity for those who wish it, an
automated anonymous contact service and matchmaking service (EZ-Intro
Contact Service) has been provided to allow anonymous postings to 
alt.personals.ads. This system consists of an anonymous posting 
service, a double-blind e-mail forwarding service, so that replies to
anonymous posts will also be anonymous, and a matchmaking service.  
ECS is a moderated service.

This purpose of this service is to facilitate the meeting of compatibles 
and also to provide a matchmaking service.  The moderator will not be 
making moral judgements, but WILL REJECT any article that is not
in the scope of meeting compatibles or requesting matchmaking services.

NOTE: 
E-mail addresses  are in Internet format -
                  someone@cupid.sai.com. 
If your mailer can't handle this type of address, you can use uucp 
"bang-path" addresses:
                  !uunet!cupid.sai.com!someone. 
You'll have to figure out how to get e-mail to uunet on your own, 
but it's reachable from most places in the Solar System. Ask your 
local e-mail guru.

HOW TO POST AN ARTICLE ANONYMOUSLY

1.  Send a ping message.
        ping@cupid.sai.com

2.  Send e-mail message to			To post to:
** ----------------------------------------------------------
    [SM,SF,GM,GF,BM,BF]@cupid.sai.com		All the World

**
** ISO = In Search Of
**
** SM  = Single Male
** SF  = Single Female	
** GM  = Gay Male
** GF  = Gay Female
** BM  = Bisexual-Male
** BF  = Bisexual-Female

1. Pinging the system:
Pinging the system serves two purposes.  First it tests the transmission
between your system and cupid to make sure that you have a clean mail path.
Second, since this is a mail echo system, when your message arrives
the system will grab your return address and send you an e-mail message 
containing your alias in the ECS system and the header of your message as it
arrived here. The Subject: line of this message is "ECS ping reply".
If you don't receive a reply to your ping message don't try to use
the anonymous posting service. Try to find another e-mail path that
works first.  You must ping the system before posting or replying to
a posting.

2. Posting your article:
The Subject: line of this message will become the Subject: line of the
article. A new header will be created for the article, with the From: and
Reply-To: lines using the format "ap.123@cupid.sai.com". Nothing in the
header of the article will tell anything about who or where you are. If 
your message has a signature in the standard form (beginning with a line
containing "--"), it will be deleted. 

NOTE:   As long as your From: line contains the original From: email
address information, any posting or e-mail will appear to come from 
the alias assigned by the ping message. 


Suggestions For Anonymous Posting

1. The Subject: line of your article, in addition to giving
some hint about why you posted it, should give information about the
geographic area you are in, or the geographic area from which 
you'd like to receive replies.  This allows people who aren't in that
area to bypass the article without wasting a lot of time.  Please
note that the Subject: line is *required* if you want your message
to be posted.

2. Don't include phone numbers, street addresses, or e-mail addresses
in the body of the article. It defeats the point of anonymous
postings. If your mailer automatically inserts such information about 
you anywhere but in a properly formatted signature, get it fixed.

3. You may wish to post a non-anonymous personal ad, but want to 
allow any respondees the option of being anonymous.  In this case,
ping the system for an alias and then include that alias in your
personal ad.

REPLYING TO ANONYMOUS ARTICLES

Just reply to an anonymous article as you would to any other posting
or send e-mail to the alias listed in the From: line of the article.
The message will be e-mailed to the poster's alias at cupid.sai.com.
When it gets here, the software will intercept the message, substitute
your e-mail address with an alias, replace the poster's alias with
their real e-mail address, and send it on with a completely rebuilt
header, no signature. There is no limit to the length of replies.

At this point, it's possible for any two people whose aliases are
registered in the database here to carry on an e-mail conversation
without ever knowing each other's e-mail address. Just send your
message to the alias at cupid.sai.com, and the system will do the rest.

WHAT IF MY SITE DOESN'T CARRY ALT.PERSONALS

You can still post your personal article as outlined above and receive
anonymous replies, but you can't read anyone else's postings. There are
no plans to create a mailing list or a server to provide the articles 
for those who don't get alt.personals.ads. 

PRIVACY AND SECURITY

All necessary steps have been taken to ensure that the names and 
identities of all users of the EZ-Intro Contact Service will be 
kept private and confidential, but there are no guarantees. 
Shecora Associates, Inc guarantees that it will not provide any
unauthorized person or organization any access to the name listing.
Usenet is not totally private, and you use this service at your own risk. 


ADMINISTRIVIA

If you have problems with the ECS service or need to have your alias 
removed from the database or have your e-mail address changed, you 
can send e-mail to admin@sai.com.

It is not feasible to cancel an article once it has been posted.  

There is no way for me to cancel e-mail you've sent to an alias, so
don't even bother asking.

--
To use this service, send EMAIL to:
Anonymous posting:		[SM,SF,GM,GF,BM,BF]@cupid.sai.com
Anonymous reply:		<user's alias>@cupid.sai.com
Test path/get alias:		ping@cupid.sai.com
ECS administrator:		admin@sai.com
Newsgroups: alt.personals,alt.personals.ads,alt.personals.misc,soc.penpals,alt.newbie