Definitely. =o) Naturally, we all like talking about our cats, and who else
but other devoted cat slaves love to HEAR about the funny/sweet things our
cats do to entertain us?

But I also like it that nobody snarls  about off-topic posts, here. It's a
very friendly atmosphere, and the off-topic posts prove that we have
interests in addition to our cats that round us out as people.  =o)

Melissa

Newsgroups with a common interest often are more like that than the
"general" groups (eg, tor.general, etc.) Two are rec.arts.comics.strips, a
quirky but oddly cohesive group that sometimes swings wildly off-topic,
often very entertainingly. And there's alt.tv.frasier, although its ranks
have understandably thinned since the series went off the air. Discussions
there are also offbeat,  like the content of the TV show. One English
contributor is a great fan of The Sopranos for instance and occasionally
lapses into gangster-speak! There are other newsgroups that carry the torch
for past radio & TV series - eg, alt.fan.goons where the folk remember and
imitate the characters in that great BBC Radio comedy series with Spike
Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers. And alt.tv.avengers,  where they
still (with justification) lust after Emma Peel in her (back on topic:)
leather cat suit! BTW, her creator Dame Diana Rigg celebrated her 67th
birthday one week ago.