Task: Search through various newsgroups and find one that interest you. Follow your chosen newsgroup for a couple of days, and then post a message to the group. Cut and paste a copy of the entire message, including the header information.
Log entry: I joined a Google Groups newsgroup - alt.games.warcraft. It’s a fairly active newsgroup, with several new posts and comments each day. Most people making posts appear to be genuinely interested in sharing information and helping other members of the group. However, it doesn’t seem to be moderated, and has a lot of spam advertising posts.
Here’s my post:
And of course, a big downside to joining a newsgroup is that it’s yet another distraction from my uni work 
