In message <5df3kcF33t6n5U1@mid.individual.net>
"Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:
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> "davehigton" <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
> news:1181893023.110276.110410@q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com
>
> [snip]
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> > I'll be more specific, then. Please explain how you
> > think that a place can take place. You haven't attempted
> > to explain that.[/color]
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> I don't have to.[/color]

Ah, so you've ducked the question.
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> But I will tell you this - in Usenet convention (which as
> is often the case with convention isn't always written down) a forum is
> web based and hosted on (usually) a single server, whereas a newsgroup is
> hosted on multiple servers and isn't web based.
>
> Does *that* make sense..? If not, sorry and all that. but hard luck.[/color]

Perfectly, and I agree with you - in your specific use and sense
of the word "forum". (And I have never disagreed with you on that
point.)
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> This group *still* isn't a forum.[/color]

But it is also a forum, in the general sense of the word "forum",
because that's the use to which we all put it. A forum for
discussion. A place, albeit virtual or abstract, where we go to
discuss things. Does that make sense to you?

Dave