Baker thinks Harvard is just the right type of school for a Web site like Datesite.

"A lot of Harvard students tend to be a little shy, at other schools they probably don't worry about [asking someone out] as much," he said.

The site has since expanded to include purity tests, weekly advice columns, and even a section where students can purchase flowers, chocolates and other romantic accoutrements.

Users logging into the site are greeted with a dating tip, which can range from the basic (Tip: Don't forget her birthday!) to the useful (Tip: How to mix a good drink).

Baker says he plans to work on the site this summer and create revenue by selling advertising space to Cambridge merchants.

E-Uh-Oh

The system is not fool-proof, however, and clever users can often manipulate the system to find out who likes them.

Rehana E. Gubin '02 says she and her roommate Laura D. Babkes '02 got several e-mails from Datesite early in the second semester. In order to figure out who had sent them, they each tried entering in the names of all their friends to see if produced a match.

"We ended up entering about 20 names each," Gubin says. "But we didn't realize that each person we entered in got an e-mail from Datesite, so all these people suddenly thought that lots of people liked them."

Babkes says they eventually stumbled upon a match, but refused to name the lucky guy.

She adds that she and Gubin later explained what they had done, and apologized to people who received the fictitious e-mails.

Not Quite Final

It's still too early to tell, but final clubs soon may not sit astride the Harvard social scene like the Goliaths they once were. But in response to their increasingly exclusive guest policies, undergraduates are slowly beginning to establish other social clubs.

Until recently, the only fraternity on campus was the all-male Sigma Chi.

But the newly formed Seneca, an all-female social organization that says it is neither final club nor sorority, met for the first time last month.