A large group of people from several countries and many universities collaborated for a period of two years (1992-1994) on a quantitative study of electronic discussions. The research group was coordinated by Sheizaf Rafaeli, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and Fay Sudweeks, University of Sydney, Australia. Members of the group included researchers from several dozen universities, representing numerous academic disciplines, who got together to use the net in order to study use of the net.