When you discover that you can't handle the hundreds of messages you receive daily and want to leave, you must unsubscribe. There are several Web sites that list hundreds of email discussion lists and will tell you how to subscribe to them. Usenet has been around longer than either chat rooms or email discussion lists. Usenet is big network different from the Web that is made up of global newsgroups or interest groups. Unlike listservs, where individuals have to join a group to receive mail, with usenet anyone can participate but the person has to actively seek the information.
Users can leave messages or files or just read the messages or files left by others.
There are well over 5000 different Usenet groups focused on such diverse ideas or topics as for Robin Hood ballads, chess, inline skating, a flat tax, fetal pig research among others. Some Usenet groups are controversial because their focus on is pornography. Liszt helps you find mailing lists that might interest you. Then it tells you how to get more information, and how to join. But you'll still have to use your e-mail program to actually join and read the group.