Alan Holmes wrote:
Why the hell do you want to post on an 'allotment' forum when there is a
perfectly good newsgroup here, in which someone will anwer any queries you
may have.

I've noticed the sad decline of usenet in the lastv3 years. I suspect
that it goes un-noticed because no-one makes money from it, and hence
there is no publicity.

But there may be another reason: perhaps text-only is not seen as sexy
by younger users? I used to work on ships where the after-dinner video
was a major social event. I noticed that if I put a black-and-white
film on that everyone under the age of 35 would wander off, as though
they could not see it. Perhaps usenet is the same. Without atavars,
icons, flashing smileys, some people can't read it?