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On Mon, 8 May 1995 MichelleVR@aol.com wrote:

> My name's Michelle Rafter and I write a column on cyberspace for Reuters.
> I've been lurking here for some time, but this is the first opportunity I've
> had to pose a question. Here goes: Is anyone familiar with efforts of
> newspapers or other companies to create online classified advertising,
> specifically personals ads. I'm aware of Electronic Classifieds Inc., in San

There are several sources of personals.  The Village Voice offers a 
modest selection.  The jumbo version is the alt.personals.* groups.  Here,
the posters give a short text-only description and a URL to their 
home-pages.  The internet access providers charge a set-up fee for the 
home page, and a monthly storage fee.  Most of the URLs have pictures and 
general information.  The newsgroups provide a place to share the more 
"private stuff" (an oxymoron right?).  We will probably see more of this 
now that it is possible to permission each page.

What's really fun is to see the difference in web pages between 
misc.jobs.offered and alt.personals.bondage :-).

There is a good potential market for a company like "Glamour Shots" to 
pick up an extra bit of change by providing a GIF or JPEG on a floppy or 
a "Home Page" kept at their server.

WAIS, and several WAIS servers keep wais indexed archives which is a good 
way to sort through the 5000 "Single Professional Males ISO SWF" for 
the "SWF ISO SWM".  The shorthand is still used, but more to be 
comfortable talking about touchy subjects. :-)

> Michelle V. Rafter                               

	Rex Ballard
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From rballard@cnj.digex.net Tue May  9 15:06:27 1995