Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 13:18:01 +0100 (BST)
From: Godwin Osei-Nyame <godwin.osei-nyame-AT-wadham.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: letter from Olga! =) (Unverified)


Worried Unsubsriber,
Once upon a time I subscribed unto postcolonial-info-AT-jefferson.  Having 
been on it for a while I realized that it was not as interesting as I 
would have expected it to be.  So many moons ago, I asked to be 
unsuscribed and I was.  But somehow I kept on receiving messages from 
postcolonial.  I asked again to be unsuscribed, and I seemed to have been 
for a while.  But these days I keep on getting messages on love affairs, 
romance, scandals, insinuations, innuendoes, politics, etc, which I find 
unpalatable but which I cannot often help reading either.  My delete key 
told me yesterday in a dream that if I did not stop misusing it, it would 
refuse to function.  Since I fear that might happen, I am appealing  to 
any receipient of this message who has knowledge about the pollitics 
of subscription and desubscription vis-a vis postcolonial-AT-jefferson to 
kindly inform the authorities 
responsible for my harrasment via postcolonial to let them stop sending 
me these messages.  I am fed up with receiving messages I am not 
interested in, especially as I am not supposed to be on 
postcolonial-AT-jefferson anymore.

thanks in advance for ridding me of this plague.


 

On Thu, 20 Jul 1995 romance-AT-in.the.former.ussr.ua wrote:

> 
>      Not to long ago, I posted a message re: meeting women of the former 
> soviet union through romance ads.
> 
>      In August, Olga will travel to Moscow from her home in Kiev, Ukraine.  
> In Moscow, Olga will have a much easier and cost efficient means to place 
> your personal romance ad throughout Russia.
> 
> Last week I received the following from Olga:
> 
>      "I have already sent your ad to the papers in such towns: Moscow, 
> St. Petersburg, Vladimir, Kazan.  At nearest future I will send your ad to the
> paper in some more 12 towns of Russia, where papers are published.
>      Some times (in winter, spring & now) I placed your ad in other papers, 
> but they are not most popular paper in Moscow and some large cities of Russia.
>      Besides, I am continuing to place your ad in papers of Ukraine.  I 
> promise to place your ad in some other papers when I will come to Moscow in 
> August.  I am glad that you have received fairly many letters from Russian & 
> Ukrainian girls and I think you will received some more ones and will find 
> your ideal in my country soon.
>      I thank you very much ones more for your kindness & your help.
> My best wishes,
> 
> Olga"
> 
>      This isn't a scam - call it panhandling if you want. . . I sent her $40 
> or $50 and I've received over 45 responses.  Unlike placing romance ads in 
> the U.S., women from the former USSR respond.  Although one would guess the 
> are doing so in the hopes of American citizenship, I haven't found it so.
> 
>      Olga lives in Kiev, Ukraine (population 3 million) and will travel to 
> Moscow in August to visit her father.  If you were to send a letter this 
> week, she would receive it in time.  The population of Moscow is 10 million 
> -- (3 times the size of Los Angeles.)
> 
>      Feel free to send a letter and ask her your questions.  She will be happy
> to respond.
> 
> Olga's address:
> 
> Ukraine
> Kiev 253121
> Dekabristov Street 5 - 178
> Olga Kozmina
> 
>      I am posting anonymously because of the flames and volume of inquiries 
> that would result otherwise.  I think those who are truely interested will 
> take the time to write.
> _____________________________________________________________________________
> To: probable flamer
> Subject: polite note
> 
>      Although Olga has never seen a newsgroup nor heard of "net-etiquette," 
> she believes that offering lonely singles the possibility of romance exceeds 
> the cost of angering those who feel the net shouldn't be used in this fashion.
>      IHA (I humbly ask) that you not flame the postmaster of this site.
> 
> peace. . .
> 
> 
> 
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