pompeii -> RE: Another one of those (9/15/2008 11:30:51 PM)
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This whole reading-your-profile thing has an interesting twist from a guy's perspective. As you well know, some of you (see above) have 250 mails awaiting your perusal, while we guys, well, at least "me guy", gets, if I'm lucky, one or three emails a month, on average. That, in and of itself, is a big difference with respect to pet peeves. We (by we, I mean "me") don't get those "U R Hawt" emails, as a general rule. Secondarily, I do try to read a person's profile, I try to respond to those rare (very rare) few who've expressed an interest in me, and I invest in looking up their forum posts and I even google a bit for keywords related to their profiles to get to know them a bit before responding. Interestingly, and this is the flip side of the story here, some of you (and you know who you are and I will not out you) are actually taken aback, far aback, shocked actually, at how much I know about you simply by doing a bit of intelligent research (something I'm not too shabby at, at least when it comes to the free stuff available on the Internet). In summary, the flip side of this coin, at least for me, is a) We (me) don't get very many emails (one a week or so, if that) so it's hard for us to get annoyed at almost anything that's said to us, and, b) We (again, me) do some research and, rarely (one in five or so), we get a "do I know you from somewhere" or a "you seem to know too much about me" kind of emails (you know who you are who have said this to me). It's interesting. Very different the place our experiences lie in the spectrum.
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