From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active
"TomSawer" wrote in message
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Why are people still going on about Clarkson and the BBC.

What has this got to do with DIY topics?

On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 8:20:37 AM UTC+1, Brian Gaff wrote:
Well, its not a site for a start, its a Usenet newsgroup. its technology
predates web sites by many years.
There used to be net cops around who would make transgressors life's hard
if they persistently went off topic, but because these are unmoderated
areas, there is little that can be done in real terms. It tends to boil down
to whether the people who post on these groups tolerate the noise or not.
after all, nobody is making you download message bodies you don't want to,
assuming you use a real news reader, and not google, are they?

Brian

Google groups doesnt download unwanted message bodies either


NT