"Janet Baraclough" wrote
solaara
I thought this was garden banter

I think we've told you this before, it's not gardenbanter. This is a
newsgroup which existed long before that lamebrains website and is
completely independent of it.

It's much harder to make sense of branching threads on a web-based bulletin
board layout, plus they always seem so slow and clunky. I can never see why
anyone wants to use them if they can read and post to the same group via
newsreader software.