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Cereus-validus....... wrote:
Newsgroups and forums are completely different entities. Do some homework on them, Tater Head, and you will be amazed when you learn something. "Forum" is a common English word for a place of open discussion. Type "define: forum" on Google and you will find everything from a public square to a court of law, and even "newsgroup" as an example of online forum. That being said, I don't think the focus should be on one word, the original poster asked an on-topic question and I for one learned something about horsetails. |
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from (Spud Demon) contains these words: Janet Baraclough writes in article dated Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:39:24 +0100: You are not in a forum. You are posting to an international, but mostly American newsgroup. Is there something about this newsgroup that makes it not a forum? The OP is posting from a UK commercial website (www.gardenbanter) which provides a portal to usenet newsgroups. Unfortunately, the website does not really explain that to its members, so they mistakenly think they are posting to a forum belonging to and operated by the website. This appears to suit the webmaster's intentions. There are significant differences, from a users POV, between a website forum, and this newsgroup. Website forums are controlled by the webmaster, often, to please, or at least avoid offending, the intersts of advertisers who buy space there. So, gardenbanter moderates the content of this newsgroup as it appears on their so-called "forum". Its members are reading this newsgroup in a bowdlerised version moderated for content and language. Another difference is that on a website forum the webmaster/website technology dictates how long messages and threads stay on view to users. Many busy website forums/message boards are almost as transient as a chatroom, and there's nothing the user can do about that. In gardenbanter's case, this has the unwelcome effect of giving its members a very short attention span. They can't keep an interesting thread in full view as long as they choose, and therefore often have the greatest difficulty in following threads and contributing to complex conversations. Mostly, though not in this case, gardenbanters UK members manage to hit the "forum" which leads them to uk.rec.gardening where they can get UK-relevant advice. In that newsgroup, they have inadvertently caused much thread disruption partly due to poor technology at the website which forwards their posts...starting a new thread for each post, for example, and not using reply-with-quote. They would be far better off, imho, using any other method to read and post to newsgroups. HTH Janet. |
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Thanks everyone - sorry if i got the name wrong and all that but the advice is fantastic whatever this place is called and we will keep blasting in the hope that we win through eventually.
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