> Well, that's true, but most typical Usenet discussions are pointless
> anyway. Mostly it's people nitpicking each other over trivia or
> demonstrating their failure to understand the concept of civilised
> discussion or asking others to do their homework for them or doing
> their homework for them or refusing to do their homework for them or
> explaining why they are refusing to do their homework for them or
> explaining that it really truly honestly isn't homework even though it
> looks a bit like it or attempting to persuade you to buy
> pharmaceutical goods from strangers over the Internet that you would
> hesitate to accept as a gift from the family doctor you've known and
> loved for thirty years or nodding to each other over in-jokes the
> point of which was reasonably well-known a decade ago but is now known
> only to four or five people currently using the group or complaints
> about topicality or complaints about complaints about topicality or
> complaints about complaints about complaints about topicality or
> plugging their religion or attacking their religion or explaining why
> it is not a good idea to plug a religion or attack a religion on
> Usenet or a statistical analysis of pointless discussions of the last
> month broken down by poster frequency and by newsreader and by
> original text and by any useless category you can think of or people
> posting replies that demonstrate beyond doubt that they have either
> not read or at least not understood the post to which they are
> replying or people trying to persuade you to use their rather lame
> excuse for an open source software package or people posting just to
> say how deeply and abidingly they hate everything that some other
> person stands for on the rather tenuous assumption that anyone else
> has the slightest interest or people taking a stab at posting the
> longest sentence without commas in the history of comp.programming
> that anyone can remember without actually checking on the pretext of
> ranting about how pointless most typical Usenet discussions are and
> then telling you that the sentence in question contains 337 words.