Re: your mail

[terry kroetsch f <tkroetsc@mach1.wlu.ca>]

sorry to do this but if I get one more of these I'll...I'll....

SCREAM!!!! Please stop!


On Mon, 3 Jul 1995 Olga.Kosmina@Dekabristov_St.5-178.Kiev-253121.Ukraine.UA wrote:

> Subject: meet women of the former USSR through romance ads
> 
> 
>        ##    meet women of the former USSR through romance ads    ##
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>      Months ago, Olga Kosmina placed my personal ad in several papers of the former Soviet Union.  Since that time I have received over 40 responses for the $50 I mailed Olga.  (I believe she paid the newspapers something around $35 and kept the rest for her efforts.)
>      I have found greater success and savings by placing my own personal romance advertisement rather than purchasing addresses through Russian "bride" catalog companies.
>      If you are interested in placing a personal romance ad as I did, contact Olga.  She has built up a list of most every newspaper and magazine in the former Soviet Union and could help direct your ad to certain areas if you wish.  She writes, "please say that I place all ad _throughout_ Russia and other countries of former Soviet Union, not only Western Russia."
>      Olga is 23 years old, has a bachelors in biology and works full-time as a florist in Kiev.  She speaks, reads and writes English as well as her native languages of Russian and Ukrainian.
>      I realize that it is a very trusting person who would put $ into an envelope and mail to a foreign country.  If you would rather send a letter of inquiry first, Olga will respond to your questions.  It takes about 16 days for a letter to travel from the USA to Kiev.
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> Olga Kozmina
> Dekabristov Street 5 - 178
> Kiev 253121
> Ukraine
> 
>      I have found that by placing a single bill between two pieces of newsprint inside an envelope, the Ukrainian post cannot see through and does not bother to tamper.  I have yet to lose a letter sent to Kiev.  I am sorry that Olga does not have e-mail because it would make contact with her much easier.
>      I am posting anonymously because of the inordinate amount of e-mail which I would receive -- inquiries as well as flames.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> 
> David and Olga
> 
>      Although Olga has never seen a newsgroup nor heard of "net-etiquette," she believes that helping others exceeds the cost of angering those who feel the net should not be used in this fashion.
>      IHA (I humbly ask) that you not flame the postmaster of this site.
> 
> peace. . .
>