In message <5c146lF2utbdpU1@mid.individual.net>
"Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:
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> "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]
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> > 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]
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> As has been discussed ad nauseum in other places, I am *not* wrong. We are
> talking about *Usenet* convention and not dictionary definition.[/color]

Usenet doesn't render an ordinary dictionary wrong or inapplicable.
This is a forum for discussion, in the general sense of the word.
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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.
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> *That* is the definition I apply and the only one I recognise.[/color]

Then you are blind to the truth.
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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]

I used to get angry at what I regarded as "misuse" of words such
as "velocity" or "vector". To a mathematician or physicist,
"velocity" means speed with a particular direction, and "vector"
means a quantity that has both magnitude and direction. However,
I had to recognise that ordinary people use "velocity" synonymously
with "speed", and, to medical people, a "vector" can be a means of
transport of a disease, for example. All those meanings are
correct.

Many words have multiple meanings. "Forum" is one such. Get used
to it.

Dave