Ivor Jones wrote:[color=blue]
> "Chris Hopley" <chris.hopley@gggggmail.com> wrote in
> message news:81ac9$465b5815$9163a40a$6378@news2.tudelft.nl[color=green]
>> Ivor Jones wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> How can I be spamming, I'm not trying to advertise
>>> anyone or anything. Even if I was, this isn't a forum,
>>> but we've already had this discussion.[/color]
>> Ivor, as much as I respect your knowledge of all things
>> voip, etc., you are wrong on this one. A forum is any
>> place where things can be discussed, not just a "bulletin
>> board" type website. Live long and prosper, but stick to
>> voip not linguistics.[/color]
>
> As has been discussed ad nauseum in other places, I am *not* wrong. We are
> talking about *Usenet* convention and not dictionary definition.[/color]

Fortunately I don't frequent those nauseatic places.
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> Usenet is a platform where groups are hosted in multiple locations using
> nntp format. Forums are web based, hosted in a single location using http
> access.
>
> *That* is the definition I apply and the only one I recognise.[/color]

You cannot define human interaction in terms of the technology that
facilitates that interaction.
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> Take it or leave it, I do not propose to discuss it further here, it has
> already been done to death elsewhere.[/color]

We can all play that game, Ivor:

'I see it now,' Alice remarked thoughtfully: 'and what are "toves"?'

'Well, "toves" are something like badgers - they're something like
lizards - and they're something like corkscrews.'

'They must be very curious-looking creatures.'

'They are that,' said Humpty Dumpty: 'also they make their nests under
sundials - also they live on cheese.'

From Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll