HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: zoltar@glasgow.amigans.gen.nz (Grant Thoms)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: Yoohoo .... Anybody Home?
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:13:22 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: Home UUCP Node... Where there's hardly (If Any) Organisation..

In article <19564.2b541a84@levels.unisa.edu.au>
9209848f@levels.unisa.edu.au writes:

>books, TV, animals, music (all kinds, except heavy metal - anybody
appreciates Kenny G, Najee, Michael Bolton, and contemporary gospel 
            ^^^^^^^^

Hey! Now your'e Talking! I esp like the song `Shillouette', real nice
tunes...

See ya,
Grant

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From: S.R.Carlo@daresbury.ac.uk (S.R. Carlo)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Penpals surprise, surprise
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:40:17 GMT
Organization: SERC Daresbury Lab., Warrington, U.K.

Hopefully this will get posted!
My name is Steve and I'm in the lovely "Dry" NW of England
I spend most of my day working on these comps (altho' I'm a chemist) and would
like to make a few email penpals and have a bit of fun on these wonderful
machines.
I like martial arts and water sports, reading, photography and having fun
Please reply to sxc@uk.ac.dl.cxa
Love and hugs
Steve
XXXXX
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: maci9154@mach1.wlu.ca (macivor dawna)
Subject: Re: 18-year-olds at Mount Allison University
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:13:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.222231.23161@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> crobertson@mta.ca writes:
>In article <29875@ursa.bear.com>, young@gummi.bear.com (Eric Youngblood) writes:
>>Roy Kiyoshi Kinoshita (kinosr@rs6116.ecs.rpi.edu) wrote:
>>: I am utterly amazed how many of you have posted to this newsgroup.  Do you
>>: have a course in email or something?  If your grades depend on how many
>>: correspondants you accumulate, I suppose this is a good way of doing it.
>>: To bad-mouth the freshman class over there was NOT my intent.  I think
>>: it's great you guys are learning about computers and email as freshmen.
>>: (I wish I did the same.)  It's just that the number of different login-ids
>>: from @mta.ca boggles my mind!!
>>
>>Actually, Mount Allison University has only one student,
>>and she suffers from multiple personality disorder.
>>Keep this in mind before you flame her, as she is
>>understandably quite sensitive.
>
>---Oh, so THAT's why we have the best student:teacher ratio in Canada...I was
>wonderin'--->

I thought Laurier had the best.  Who knows.... I'd rather be here than out
there any day tho!


Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: cwawchan@ee.ualberta.ca (Chan Alan Wai-Lun)
Subject: SM is looking for a female to write to
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:47:57 GMT

Hey,

	I am a single male who want to write to some pretty female. I am a Computer Engineering student in U. of Alberta. I am 20 and I love computer (anything about it), I am a game player, especially like 'Adventure' games. I really like Sierra-On-Line's adventure games. I am a shy and hardworking young man, like reading and watching movies. Also I am a motorcyle fans, like drive around with bike in summer. I am lonely man, the only companion is my computer.
	My E-mail Acount : cwawchan@bode.ee.ualberta.ca  or
			   c172020@assn120.cs.ualberta.ca

 	Who would like to write to me, can send me E-mail anytime!
	Thanks!

							Alan
From: bsercomb@neumann.une.edu.au (shadow,,,)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: 18-year-olds at Mount Allison University
Date: 22 Jan 93 01:18:53 GMT
Reply-To: bsercomb@neumann.une.edu.au
Originator: bsercomb@neumann.une.edu.au

>>from @mta.ca boggles my mind!!
> 
> It's interesting how many of them describe their hair and their drinking 
> habits. Perhaps it's just one her (or him) who can dummy up accounts?
> 
> The MT. ALLISON CONSPIRACY is on the verge of exploding into the media...
>>:)

Face it, Someone at Mt. Allison is playing a joke. Probably the same 
somebody who is "taking offence" to all of the mail about Mt. Allison 
Babys. I notice he/she/it happens to hail from there too.
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: 005023k@axe.acadiau.ca (ZUBAIDAH KADIR)
Subject: headache!!!!
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:42:25 GMT

Hi everybody,Zubaidah here..
I just recently discovered this thang..Anyway, It would be nice if you 
people out there would write something, anything to me.Anyway, lemme tell 
you more about me..

I am 18+
I am a girl (just in case you people out there mistook my name for a guys' 
name)
I love G` N' R, Metallica AND Prince.
I like to talk crap..(don't everybody sometimes..?)
I have a GARGANTUAN headache right now so I guess I 
better get off this system before my head burst! 
TILL THEN!
005023K@Axe.acadiau.ca
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: an1252@anon.penet.fi (Gabriel Stevens)
Subject: Re: i'm baaaaack!!!!!
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: soc.penpals
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:47:00 GMT

In article <henrichk.10.0@columbia.dsu.edu> you write:
>From: henrichk@columbia.dsu.edu (Kimberly Henrichsen)
>Subject: i'm baaaaack!!!!!
>Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 04:52:56 GMT
>hey there all u netters!!!!
>i thought i post this to let u know that i'm back from my xmas break and i 
>would love to hear from you to those who have written to me before! i will 
>try to get around to replyings but i really can't promise that, but i'll do 
>my best at it!!!!
>i will accept new email friends!!! love to hear from ya!!!!
>kimmey sue
>
>henrichk@columbia.dsu.edu
HELLO.
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From: padecoo@flash.LakeheadU.Ca (Pete "Dragon" Decoo)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Da Grey Box...
Date: 25 Jan 1993 06:41:15 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada


 
     Hep me.  De big grey box on de desk is after me.  I be hip-no-tized!
I be forced to write dis message.  I think the magic box o' fun wants mail
on its hardrive.  Please appease the angry machine and releasee me from
my enslavement.

--
* Pete "The Dragon" Decoo     : "Eat Right. Get Lots Of Sleep. Drink *
* Mechanical Engineering      :  Plenty Of Fluids. Go Like HELL!"    * 
*   Lakehead University       :                                      *
* padecoo@flash.lakeheadu.ca  :   ....And Remember Kids, ERTW!       *
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: madelen@praxis.co.uk (Madelen Rea)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: WAT No Work?
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:28:34 GMT
Distribution: soc.penpals
Organization: Praxis Systems, Bath, England


Hi there, I've been reading this newsgroup on and off for sometime now
and considering how many posting there always is, I was wondering....

............Does anybody out there ever do any work? ;-)

--
 Raving Mad.  (This is not a FLAME)

E-Mail Address: madelen@praxis.co.uk
Company: Praxis Systems plc
Address: 20 Manvers St.
         Bath BA1 1PX
         AVON
         ENGLAND.
-- 
 Raving Mad.
From: drwier@clients.switch.ch (Dennis Wier)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: American in Switzerland
Date: 21 Jan 1993 00:18:48 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hi
I'm living in Zuerich and loving it, but I want to keep contacts
with the states, and I also want to make new contacts in Europe.
I am 50, practice yoga and meditation, used to fly a plane, lived
in Panama, Spain, India, and the wilder parts of California, and
Colorado, New York.  I write articles on trance and addiction and
I like to connect with people who are somewhat NewAge/pagan/alternative
into other types of awareness -- I've been practicing meditation for
25 years and taught meditation for 13 (not any longer).  I also
write computer software - I am a computer consultant and I write
software for telephone applications.  I have a daughter who is 19
and a Swiss wife.  I would like to connect with people in the Nederlands
and Berlin and also the So. coast of France, Costa Rica and anywhere
in the states with people of like mind/soul - any sex, age, inclination.

Dennis Wier		drwier@clients.switch.ch
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: h2xs@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (LANE  G)
Subject: For the guys...
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Distribution: WORLD
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:44:55 GMT

OK Guys, listen up!  Check out this situation...

I wake up this morning, and my girlfriend (for 2 months now) says: I think
we should just be friends.  Many an occasion have I been tormented with 
this phrase.  To even hear it makes my blood boil.  So I'd like to take a
little survey:  How many of us (sorry girls) detest this as much as I?
If any ladies would like to give their input, please feel free.  By the way,
don't ever tell YOUR boyfriend that line.  It's stupid, and it's not fair.

Please Append Name (and comments if desired):
Glenn Lane (H2XS@CSDNOV3.UNB.CA)
From: ez006020@chip.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: female penpal sought
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:12:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucdavis.21850
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis
Originator: ez006020@chip.ucdavis.edu

I would like to post this penpal ad for a friend. He is
currently incarcerated and will be paroled in a few years.
I believe he would welcome letters from any suitable woman
and seeks friendship, not marriage, at least until he gets
out. I have known him for two years and I find him to be 
personally honest, unlike some prisoners who are manipulative,
game-playing and/or avaricious. Oh and by the way, he writes
a great letter.

   Inmate looking for broadminded, understanding woman.
   Me: 50, white, college educated, sly sense of humor.
   You: literate, adventurous, not TOO liberated, height/
   weight proportionate, age 30-45, any race. Object: to
   find someone to share life with when a new life is
   started.
   Ron Husted  C62193
   P.O. Box 2349   C7-144L
   Blythe, California  92226
From: JABabb@cen.ex.ac.uk (J.A.Babb)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Jacqui's mail ... slow down!
Date: 25 Jan 93 09:42:55 GMT
Organization: University of Exeter, UK.

To all those who have been talking to me on a regular basis recently,
please continue but be aware that I have been deluged with mail and
may not be as fast replying as you'd like.  To all the others 
thinking of mailing me, please hold for a week or two so I can
catch up.
But I love you all, anyway!!
Thanks,
Jacqui
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: crobertson@mta.ca
Subject: Re: 18-year-olds at Mount Allison University
Reply-To: crobertson@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:15:52 GMT

>
>>---Like I said in an earlier post...There's nothing to do here for those who
>>aren't old enough to get into the bars. Even those of us who are can't really
>>afford it, thus, there are many logins on the net.---
>
>Oh, come on! Use a bit of imagination, will ya? I bet you can write,
>read, study, paint, dance, go jogging, do aerobics, have sex (with
>others or by yourself), listen to music, et cetera ad infinitum. Who
>says you need some certain place to get together with people and have
>fun?
>
>Life is just as boring as you make it!
>("Getting into bars" isn't a magic solution to make your life great...)
>--
---Man, why is everyone on my back all of a sudden? I was just emphasizing the
isolation and relative lack of places to go and see in Sackville. I am a music
student, and believe me, I can find many, many things to occupy my time other
than bars and computers, but both of them seem to be a pretty popular past 
time here. Believe it or not, this area contains a lot of creative people so 
please don't judge everyone because of my little exagerations. And I agree that
life is only as boring as you make it; rest assured, my life is much too busy
to be boring. Again, I agree that bars aren't the magical solution to anything,
but they can be fun. Anyway, I hope I cleared up any misunderstandings.---
From: wjap@rau3.rau.ac.za (Mnr W Phoenix - magasyn)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: Coward on the NET !
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:19:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: rau3.wjap.70.728061563
Organization: Rand Afrikaans University

>To: wjap@rau3.rau.ac.za
>Subject: Damn - RAU's on the net !
>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:07:25 +0200 (EET)
>From: an5646@anon.penet.fi
>X-Anonymously-To: wjap@rau3.rau.ac.za
>Organization: Anonymous contact service
>
>Oh what a pity some twit from RAU showed his face on the net, with a dumb
>post immediately giving all us poor SA netters a bad name !
>
>Think before you post !
>
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TO THE PERSON WHO WROTE THIS MESSAGE TO ME I JUST WANT TO SAY ONE THING,

  YOU HAVE A VERY POOR SENSE OF HUMOUR AND IF YOU ARE SUCH A COWARD
  AS TO HIDE BEHIND AN ANONYMOUS CONTACT SERVICE THEN I SUGEST THAT
  YOU DO NOT SENT THESE TYPE OF MESSAGES TO ME UNLESS YOU CAN REVEAL
  YOU TRUE IDENTITY.

 "I CHALLENGE YOU TO BE A PERSON OF SUBSTANCE." !

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Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: scooper6@mach1.wlu.ca (stephen cooper 9209 U)
Subject: Re: crobertson & Re: Mount Allison Babys
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:56:06 GMT

In article <C1DLv0.71K@mach1.wlu.ca> maci9154@mach1.wlu.ca (macivor dawna) writes:
>In article <1julifINN729@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> parisboy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Toneo!) writes:
>>
>>Ok peoples, I thought it's time for me to say something about this. This
>>newsgroup is soc.penpals, NOT soc.bash.someone.by.hiding.behind.a.computer.
>>I don't want to see the original purpose or the integrity of this newsgroup
>>tainted by all this unnecessary bickering.
>>
>>I've made lots of good friends through this newsgroup, and there are alot
>>of nice people out there. Of course, there are always going to be some
>>people who are not so nice. I believe if you just ignore the hot-headed
>>comments made and rationally think things over, then you won't have any
>>problems. People say things to provoke reactions from others, hoping they
>>will make others stoop to their level. These types of people are not really
>>interested in what you have to say, nor will your comments change their ways.
>>But they do get a kick out of it.
>
>YAY!  Wonderful point!  It's about time, too.... one gets tired of all the
>Mt.A. bashing and the back and forth....
>
>I, too, have met a lot of nice people thru soc.penpals, and hope that this
>can continue, for me and everyone else.  =)

I agree.  What is the point of Mt. A. students?  They obviously all found
out about the email thing at once and they all wanted to try it.  This net
is still the best kept secret here at WLU and I'm sure many people would
flood it as well if they all found out about it...

-- 
Steve Cooper      |  Internet:  scooper6@mach1.wlu.ca
Waterloo, Ontario |  If you actually think I speak for Wilfrid Laurier
Canada!!          |  University, well... I don't even want to think about it.
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: jleong@fraser.sfu.ca (Jason Chee Loong Leong)
Subject: Psychotic History Student Seeks Penpals
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:01:10 GMT

    Psychotic History student who would like to know if anyone would
like to respond as pen pals. Please send mail while I still have my
sanity and before I run amuk. I'm in desperate need of therapy and a
punching bag, so hurry.

    jason_leong@sfu.ca
From: D.G.Legros@bradford.ac.uk (DG LEGROS)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: Suggestion box: pickup lines
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:46:06 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 92356597@ccw306
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

AMY ELIZABETH PASECHNICK (aep2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu) wrote:
: 
: 
: 
: In article <1993Jan25.164352.6037@bradford.ac.uk>, D.G.Legros@bradford.ac.uk (DG
:  LEGROS) writes:
: >EMIL CHUCK (eyc@acpub.duke.edu) wrote:
: >: I'm working on trying to get some interesting humor just in time for
: >: final exams for me and my friends on the network. I was hoping there'll
: >: be some response to this post, and please respond by email to me. I
: >: can't read everything posted. (That doesn't mean you can't post.)
: >:
: >: I'm calling for some creative (and hopefully effective) pickup lines for
: >: men and for women. Please keep your remarks clean, and I won't lose your
: >: suggestion for all eternity. On the other hand, you can just post your
: >: more suggestive suggestions on the network. Seems to happen anyway.
: >: --
: >: Emil Thomas Chuck    eyc@acpub.duke.edu      Biomedical Engineering 1993
: >:      Hope you have a very good "Native American Exploitation" Day.
: >: I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm
: >: good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
: >
: >Try this "Excuse me but do you have a quarter?"
: >"Why?"
: >"I thought you might want to call home to say you'd be back tomorrow"
: >
: >--
: >----------------------------------------------------------------------
: >        _____   | Dommy the Mouse (INTERNET D.G.Legros@bradford.ac.uk)
: >   ____/____^>. |                 (JANET    D.G.Legros@uk.ac.bradford)
: >                | Rodents rule ok!  :-)
: >----------------------------------------------------------------------
: >
: This one was used on me, and I had to laugh.  The one above reminded
: me of it.
: What about
: "Excuse me, do you have a quarter?"
: "Why?"
: "I told my mom I'd call her the day I met the woman of my dreams."
: 
: Pretty bad, huh?

Terrible!, People have been shot for less.  I must therefore tell
you that you are to be dragged out and shot at dawn.  This will be
done just as soon as Dawn is available.

--
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Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: sally@seas.gwu.edu (Sally Qiu)
Subject: "Happy Birthday" in Hungarian ???
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:26:54 GMT

Hi there,

Could anybody tell me how to write "Happy Birthday"
in Hungarian?  I need to put it on my friend's
birthday cake.

Please email me instead of putting it on the net, because
I am really busy with my graduation exam and don't have
time to read news these days.

Thanks!

Sally
From: tony@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Anthony R. Benitez)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: Write Me
Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:13:11 GMT
Organization: Somewhere in TEXAS
NNTP-Posting-Host: swrinde.nde.swri.edu


Over 30 Male would like some correspondance with
gals from everywhere to next-door.


Tony
tony@tex.nde.swri.edu



Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: maci9154@mach1.wlu.ca (macivor dawna)
Subject: Re: crobertson & Re: Mount Allison Babys
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:49:47 GMT

In article <1julifINN729@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> parisboy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Toneo!) writes:
>
>Ok peoples, I thought it's time for me to say something about this. This
>newsgroup is soc.penpals, NOT soc.bash.someone.by.hiding.behind.a.computer.
>I don't want to see the original purpose or the integrity of this newsgroup
>tainted by all this unnecessary bickering.
>
>I've made lots of good friends through this newsgroup, and there are alot
>of nice people out there. Of course, there are always going to be some
>people who are not so nice. I believe if you just ignore the hot-headed
>comments made and rationally think things over, then you won't have any
>problems. People say things to provoke reactions from others, hoping they
>will make others stoop to their level. These types of people are not really
>interested in what you have to say, nor will your comments change their ways.
>But they do get a kick out of it.
>
>I suggest we all calmly end this thread, and start doing what this newsgroup
>was created for -- making new friends from around the world!!! :)
>
>Love & Peace
>Tony
>

YAY!  Wonderful point!  It's about time, too.... one gets tired of all the
Mt.A. bashing and the back and forth....

I, too, have met a lot of nice people thru soc.penpals, and hope that this
can continue, for me and everyone else.  =)

Smiles,
  Dawna =)

Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: mswing@lonestar.utsa.edu (Michael S. Wingfield)
Subject: Re: Analysing Text Re: 18-year-olds at Mt Allison Uni
Followup-To: Ripley's Believe it or Not
Keywords: AI
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:58:32 GMT

>
>[eyes bug out]  Ivan, you _can't_ be serious!?  I thought the flames
>directed at Mt. Allison were ridiculous enough, but wanting to
>analyze their writing for author authenticity takes the cake.  If
>you're just kidding around, nice approach, but if you're serious ...
>this .. oh, gosh, nevermind.  I can't even believe anyone would want
>to invest their time doing something so unimportant to most of the
>users in this group anyhow.
>
>Cari
>Boulder, CO
Yep...analyzing the linquistic syntex of certain letters is authentic. I'm
currently a student of Criminal Justice, studying Law Enforcement and
Criminal Forensics, and I can tell you from a past experience of mine in
an Investigations/Forensics class, that what Ivan wants to do is not
ridiculous, but very serious, and is an accepted practice in investigations.


Miko "the man investigating the Elvis appearances"  *grin*
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: ilmaribe@next10epsl.wam.umd.edu (Mirza N. Baig)
Subject: Re: Is there anybody out there i.e.men ?!
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:14:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan18.183541.23108@maths.tcd.ie> elle@maths.tcd.ie (Ellen  
Shilling) writes:
> I am a Science student who is currently looking for someone to write to  
 
> I could tell you some things about myself like I'm 6ft, blonde  
,extremely good looking and intelligent to match but I won't lie !!!!
> If you cannot understand anything about computers then we already have  
alot in common !!!!!!!
help

I would love to respond, but i can't seem to send any thing to  you. 

So why don't you write to me
 ilmaribe@wam.umd.edu
Newsgroups: soc.penpals