newsgroups rant

I had no idea what i was getting into. How do people have the time to talk on newsgroups? Not only is the content difficult to parse with all the quoting going on, but there are oodles and oodles of posts!

And, on top of all that, not all the groups work the same...which isn't surprising but it is confusing..so sometimes I can only reply to an author, but not post on the group...I just don't get it. This is gonna be the worst field study ever.

Unfortunately, I'm too tired to care. Plus, chatting with Timbuctoo today has left me dazed and confused...maybe tommorrow will make more sense....