Skanky, unimportant 46 year-old pot-head who wastes her aimless life
riding the bus and "whispering" for $85 a year in a dopey chatroom
filled with other losers, wrote:

>>Newsgroups aren't chat, dipshit.
>
> They are nothing more than a group chat.

Wrong.

> In postings rather than live,
> but chat just the same.

No, you dumb bitch, newsgroups are specifically defined hierarchies of
topical repositories within Usenet. Usenet is not chat.

Chat, whether IRC, instant messaging, or some similar means of real-time
communication, is entirely different in method, design, scope, etc.,
from newsgroups (Usenet).