Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Web forums are technically inferior to Usenet in just about every
respect.

True.

The main reason that service providers prefer web forums is that they
can be monetised, whereas Usenet cannot.

However, it would also seem that the average punter prefers them.

How do you know?
Has somebody done a survey?

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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland