"Paul Cupis" <paul@cupis.co.uk> wrote in message
news:46166857.0@entanet
> Ivor Jones wrote:
> > "Paul Cupis" <paul@cupis.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:46166018.0@entanet
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > 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"?
> >
> > 66. Is that all..? Given the number of groups that
> > exist and the number of people that use them, it's
> > barely a drop in the ocean. Not worth bothering with.
> >
> > If you'd said 66,000 I would have taken notice.
> >
> > Case closed, I think.
>
> You said "Or someone would have done so by now, given the
> time Usenet has existed.". Someone has.

But hardly a representative figure. My case rests.

Ivor