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Well, Phil, I just have one thing to say to about this subject, which is: Be careful what you wish for -- you just might get it!Maybe your friend 'Ira' does get more unsolicited e-mail from women trying to pick him up, but have you ever wondered what kind of person sends an unsolicited e-mail to a member of the opposite sex because they think something on their web site makes them sexy? Lunatics, that's who! And sometimes desparate lunatics at that!
Now of course very nice people send unsolicited e-mail all the time but that's usually because they want to discuss the *content* of the web site, not because they want to have your baby just because you have an MD.
I should point out that I am speaking somewhat from experience. I won't go into the bloody details of all the pathological liars and other losers I had to deal with before I got smart and stopped dating people I met online, but believe me after hanging out on multi-line chat BB...
I have found that in many areas of life, you do *not* get what you pay for. Tuition at MIT vs. Tuition at "lesser" institution is a prime example. For example, I have noticed over the years that the more a school charges its students, the more it feels justified in abusing them. This is certainly not the way hotel chains or other for-profit businesses work! I was often appalled at how my friends at Princeton University were treated by their administration. When you consider how much more their education was costing them than mine cost me, it was doubly appalling. But when so many people who want to go to a school like MIT badly enough, the school can get away with charging whatever it wants and treating students however it wants. The irony is that most of these people are not only putting up with abuse but they aren't getting very much for their money. I happen to work with a group of people who all went to CMU and paid through the nose for the priviledge. Personally, I went to a ...