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Each topic, if it goes on for more than a few posts, tends to split. So for example A and Z both reply, B replies to A, Y replies to Z, and you in effect have two "threads" both under the same heading. 20 posts on the 'threads' have completely diverged, and there are now 6 of them. A good newsreader reflects this threading so you can read one thread to the end (or not, if you prefer) before going to the next. A web forum presents them in order of posting so you are dodging about all over the place.
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That's down to poor posting discipline, on that particular site (pprune) the mods would either just delete those posts or split them into a new thread if they were important enough
GB is not a very message friendly site because of the need to interface with groups, a good forum will have buttons for adding quotes, images, urls, you tube embedding etc.