I finally worked up the courage to post my first message and nobodyresponded to it. Do you think that the soc.singlers are conspiring to ignore me?
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This article is from the Singles FAQ, by Trygve Lode tlode@nyx.net with numerous contributions by others.
I finally worked up the courage to post my first message and nobodyresponded to it. Do you think that the soc.singlers are conspiring to ignore me?
Alas, the contributors to soc.singlers are far too disorganized
to conspire against anyone. Most messages don't generate
responses anyway, otherwise the volume of soc.singles would be
even greater than it is. So, you may need to post a few
messages before anyone responds to something you've written. If
you want to maximize your chances of getting a response, try to
make sure that your articles contain room for others to
respond--they should invite others to add their thoughts to
yours and, ideally, say something new and different that will
get the attention of your readers. Sometimes messages can even
be too good--they can simply cover the whole subject and do it
so authoritatively that there's nothing left for anyone to say,
so not getting a response to a message doesn't mean that people
aren't reading it or aren't interested by it.
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