In message <5c3vuqF2v9813U1@mid.individual.net>
"Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:
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> "Dave Higton" <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> > Usenet doesn't render an ordinary dictionary wrong or
> > inapplicable. This is a forum for discussion, in the
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> No, it is a newsgroup, in which a forum may take place.[/color]

A forum can't "take place", Ivor. That's a logical nonsense.
A forum can exist, even if it's an abstract existence.

The newsgroup is the forum.

Dave