"Dave Higton" <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> 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]
> >[color=darkred]
> > > 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]
> >
> > I don't have to.[/color]
>
> Ah, so you've ducked the question.[/color]

Not at all. It's a question that has been answered elsewhere and I'm
getting tired of repeating myself.
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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?[/color]

No, it is not "also" anything. It is a newsgroup. And that is all.

Now can I go to bed..?


Ivor