Ivor Jones wrote:
> "Paul Cupis" <paul@cupis.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:461658e2.0@entanet
>
> [snip]
>
>>>> Cite, please? Please provide some evidence rather than
>>>> just "everybody knows" or similar.
>>>>
>>>> Here's mine: http://foldoc.org/?query=newsgroup
>>> How about http://www.usenet.org.uk/
>>>
>>> I don't see the word "forum" there at all. I do see the
>>> word "newsgroup" quite extensively though.
>> It doesn't say anything about the use of the word forum
>> to describe newsgroups being banned?
>
> It doesn't mention the word forum *at all*.
>
>> I am not saying they cannot be described as newsgroups,
>> that would be foolish. I am saying that the word forum
>> would also correctly describe them.
>
> But not on Usenet.
>
> Or someone would have done so by now, given the time Usenet has existed.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+si...t.org.uk+forum

Shows 66 occurances of people refering to newsgroups as forums, all
hosted at usenet.org.uk. (might not be 66 unique occurances)

So I guess people do refer to them as forums.

Shall we petition for these references to be removed/"fixed"?