The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information.

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks.

The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don’t need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door.

It is sometimes said that enough monkeys typing on enough typewriters will, given enough time, produce the entire works of Shakespeare. The usenet has demonstrated conclusively that this is not so.

Think of Usenet as a large house with many rooms. In one room they’re discussing Rilke; in the next they’re snorting nitrous and setting fire to the couch.