In article
Dave Fawthrop wrote:
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:
|
| DON'T post the same cr@p on every forum going.
|
| What's a 'forum'? This is Usenet...and newsgroups... :-)
|
|
|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.

I know that. This isn't the web.

Usenet is completely different, the
discussion is distributed by newservers directly to your own machine.

Well done Sherlock.

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.

Why?