On Wed, 10 May 2006 16:40:57 +0100, Rob Morley wrote:

|In article
|Bob Eager wrote:
| On Wed, 10 May 2006 06:55:16 UTC, "Russ"
| wrote:
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| DON'T post the same cr@p on every forum going.
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| What's a 'forum'? This is Usenet...and newsgroups... :-)
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|Surely 'forum' is a generic term that is a reasonable description of a
|newsgroup?

On the WWW a "forum" is a web based system where you can read discussions
on a specific web page(s) system. Usenet is completely different, the
discussion is distributed by newservers directly to your own machine.

Groups.google is trying to pretend that it *is* usenet by offering a web
based interface to usenet. Read http://www.google.co.uk/grphp carefully.
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Dave Fawthrop dave hyphenologist co uk Google Groups is IME the *worst*
method of accessing usenet. GG subscribers would be well advised get a
newsreader, say Agent, and a newsserver, say news.individual.net. These
will allow them: to see only *new* posts, a killfile, and other goodies.