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 DM0126B.DOC. This file is dated September 2nd, 1985 and contains e-mail dated in January 1985. This seems to be a file capture of a mail reading session. Included are several e-mails regarding The Friendship Circle Special Interest Group and some related to SIG Operators. It also looks like the mail reading session was interrupted with a couple of direct messages. Many of the files from these disks have been related to a special interest group on Delphi called Close Encounters. However, this mail reading session as well as the previous one I posted contains e-mails related to another Special Interest Group called Friendship Circle. The e-mails read here are among the oldest of any I’ve found so far. Based on one of these e-mails, I don’t think Friendship Circle and Close Encounters were really separate SIGs but rather Friendship Circle became Close Encounters.
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