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 (sometime in the late 1990s to the best of my recollection). 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, most or all 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.
The following description 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 a modem and whatever terminal program you had available for your computer to dial in with. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I am not aware of any archives in existence today that contain what was on Delphi in the 1980s.
This post includes the contents of DM0125.DOC. This file is dated September 2nd, 1985. This seems to be a file capture of a mail reading session. While the file is dates in September, the e-mails are dated in late January 1985. Most are requests to join a special interest group. One of them specifically mentions “Friendship Circle” but I suppose the others could be for that or for “Close Encounters” since “CABUYS” seems to have been the admin of both.
There’s also an e-mail from UAP0M about a monthly SIGOPs meeting. I’m not sure what the last e-mail is all about.
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