Stratcat wrote:
[...]

and forum usually refers to an html based discussion group, as typified
by some of the teams, enthusiast clubs, BOINC's site, etc. At least, IMO.

[...]

Fair summary.

And I still find web-page forums rather clunky and slow compared to a newsgroup with threads.

Newsgroups operation is also nicely distributed across the web rather than being vulnerable to just one server getting hammered or going offline.


Now for to boinc along...
(;-P))

Happy crunchin',
Martin