"Dave Higton" <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> 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=darkred]
> > > Ivor Jones wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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]
>
> Usenet doesn't render an ordinary dictionary wrong or
> inapplicable. This is a forum for discussion, in the
> general sense of the word.[/color]

No, it is a newsgroup, in which a forum may take place.
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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]
>
> Then you are blind to the truth.[/color]

No, you are.
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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.[/color]

Not in this case. Get used to it.

Ivor