On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:02:28 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

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.

Beacuse they don't know any better? To most "the internet" is just
the world wide web, not everything else that it is used for and
without which our society would immediatly come to a crashing halt.

Another who was on the internet when the pages on the WWW could be
indexed in a small paper book and search was via WAIS or Gopher.

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Cheers
Dave.