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Note that newsgroups can be erratic in content as they are open to nearly all commenters. Thus, consider the following editorial comments on Usenet Newgroups:
"Posting to Usenet is like blabbering in the town square." -- Steve Yelvington
"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." -- Blair Houghton
"What's the difference between the Boy Scouts and the web? The Boy Scouts have adult supervision." -- Vincent Van Gui
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." -- Gene Spafford