note castaway 'None of the above'<BR> I'd have no time to
actually programm/work/sleep/eat/etc. if I 'did' usenet or irc
regularly, much too much going on there. I looked at use perl
and couldnt figure out what it was for. Slashdot is way too
busy, and much too difficult to find the actual information in
all the answers to articles. Never been to LiveJournals (?) or
JavaJunkies, don't use AIM (I assume you mean the AOL Instant
Messenger by that, you never know ,)<BR> <P> My vote would have
to be the Muds I hang out in usually. (Or these days just
starting my Perl script that pretends to be a mud and
sends/receives the intermud chat-channels.. :)<BR> <P> The big
problem with most on-line communities (including this one) is,
that you either have to hang out there more or less 10hours a
day (or more, or log everything) to keep up, or you don't really
belong. I've been and gone at quite a few muds, and am amazed at
how many people just seem to ignore you, if you go away for a
while (upwards of a quarter-year) and