I come from newsgroups on Usenet in the old days. Sort of funny
about how I can talk about the old days of 1993 as The Dawn of Time
but that's pretty much what it was.

And from the beginning one of the worst places I know about
was wi.general... that's Wisconsin General on Usenet. It was
so bad I made a new newsgroup for up here where I live called
wi.northeastern.talk. Not as much traffic, but no a**holes either.

Welllll, there's _one_ clown that posts from Japan who is way off base and crossposts to wi.northeastern.talk for some arcane reason.

That's Usenet. I still use newsgroups but not as much as I used
to. On some of them there is real community.