Ivor Jones wrote:[color=blue]
> Sorry, forgot this bit.
>
> "Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote in message
> news:5d53poF33ksn5U1@mid.individual.net
>
> [snip]
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>>>>>> Count 1 - This is not a forum, Usenet defines it
>>>>>> as a newsgroup.
>>>>> A forum is a place to meet and discuss. The Forum in
>>>>> Rome is a collection of ruins but it is still a
>>>>> forum.
>>>> But this group isn't.[/color][/color]
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>>> [url]http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/forum.html[/url][/color][/color]
>
> Ok so that says a forum can be called a newsgroup. That doesn't make it
> correct. It is wrong. Or do you believe everything you read on a
> website..?
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>>> [url]http://www.thefreedictionary.com/forum[/url][/color][/color]
>
> That one doesn't even mention the word newsgroup.[/color]
Why should it? Try reading the definition: "c. A medium of open
discussion or voicing of ideas, such as a newspaper or a radio or
television program"

A newsgroup is a medium of open discussion i.e. its neither censored nor
moderated, therefore it is perfectly reasonable to call a newsgroup a forum.

Now I sit back and await your carefully thought out and reasoned
argument which will probably be "No it isn't"