A summary for those that haven’t been keeping up with this series:
I found a number of 5.25″ disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around to acquiring a 5.25″ disk drive and extracting the contents a several years back. Since then I have been occasionally posting the content here.
Based on the contents, at least some of these disks were apparently once owned by someone named Connie who used to run the “Close Encounters” Special Interest Group (SIG) on Delphi in the mid 1980s.
A specific definition of this SIG was found in a document on one of the disks: “This SIG, known as ‘Close Encounters’, is a forum for the discussion of relationships that develop via computer services like the Source, CompuServe, and Delphi. Our primary emphasis is on the sexual aspects of those relationships.”
This service was text based and was accessed via whatever terminal program you used on your computer to dial in to Delphi’s servers. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I don’t know if there are any archives in existence today of what was on Delphi in the 1980s. In any case, much of this stuff would have been private at the time and probably wouldn’t be in such archives even if they existed.
This post includes the contents of NEWMEM.DOC which is dated September 24th, 1985. This appears to be an introductory message that was sent to any new member that joined the Close Encounters Special Interest Group (SIG). It provides brief info about rules, conference schedules, contests and more.
See the previous post here.
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NEWMEM.DOC
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Welcome to 'Close Encounters', an adult forum dealing with
everything from fantasies and dating to sexual/personal
issues and problems with them.
Conduct: This is an 'adult forum'. Accordingly, a limited use
of 'explicit' language will be tolerated. However,
deliberate abuse will not, and repeated offenses will be
grounds to lock offenders out of the sig.
Conferences: Weekly conferences are held on Saturday evenings
and begin at 9:15 P.M. Eastern time. Schedules will be sent
out via dmail and also listed in the Announcements-Conference
section of the sig. Prior to attending a conference, please
familiarize yourself with the protocols which are used during
conferences. Conference protocols can be found in the General
Information database.
Contests: Contests and other promotional activities will be
run on a monthly basis with specified prizes for winners.
Members are urged to be as active as possible and to bring
friends and associates into the sig. Also, since this is
your sig, please feel free to offer suggestions for conference
topics, features, or other things you think will benefit the
sig and our membership.
Thank you for joining 'Close Encounters'.
Connie (CABUYS) - Sig Manager
John (JOHNMYSELF aka Myself) - Asst. Manager
