"Janet" wrote in message
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In article , MrRoberts.cc9c0a7
@gardenbanter.co.uk says...

What's the point of running a forum if you cannot be bothered to help
others?

RTFM

This is not a forum and nobody runs it.

This is an unmoderated usenet discussion group, NOT an obligated
advisory service.

Usenet groups are not the property of gardenbanter, they existed years
before gardenbanter and are completely independent of it.

But.. completely innocent people are posting to GardenBanter, not knowing
they ship the posts out to urg and then get surprised and upset when they
get attacked by urglers.

It's not so easy to get a newsgroup account these days, most UK ISPs don't
support them now so new people might not even know that Usenet exists.

My ISP stopped supporting newsgroups years ago so I went with
news.individual.net but if you came in fresh, so to speak, it will seem
quite OK to post a question on GardenBanter.
I know we all don't like it but instead of making GardenBanter posters feel
small (which they aren't expecting) we should raise the issue with
GardenBanter rather than attack the posters who think they are posting to a
site that will help them. IMO.

Tina