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Originally Posted by Zoxxa Human nature, there are very few places in society that allow such an outlet to truly tell people what you think about them.

"There's an interesting kind of restraint that you find. I mean there's not a lot of cursing or swearing, there's not a lot of personal cuts, there's not a lot of put downs that one would expect to find, there's not screen fulls of 'go to hell!' [...] One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do."

John Allen talking about Usenet newsgroups in 1993. The year of Eternal September