You may also want to check out internet sites such as Newsgroups and E-Groups. Usenet Newsgroups (or just "newsgroups") are a global bulletin board, with tens of thousands of topics and hundreds of thousands of different conversations.

To participate in newsgroups, you use a program called a newsreader. Newsreaders allow you to subscribe to newsgroups so you can read newsgroup articles, as well as add, or post, your own.

You also need to understand how newsgroups work, by learning newsgroup etiquette (called Netiquette) to keep from making the common mistakes that get people mad.