In article , Simon Lloyd wrote:

Brude i don't understand?, the folk who use our forums do not use or
see a newsreader but simply foum posts in a vBulletin community, so if
you mean they have no choice of NG viewer then your right, but then
again they choose to use our forums for the interface as threads seem
easier for them to follow.......depends what you're used to i suppose :)

Yeah I understand that Simon. But I doubt they "choose" to use the web
interface for forums ... I believe that's all they know. And, if like me,
they knew there was a good way to access newsgroups (which the forums are
connected to ?) then that's what they would choose. I suppose there might be
an occasional person that prefers a web interface for this sort of thing.
There's always one, and yes, it does depend on what you are used to. Of
course, if that's all you know, that's what you will prefer. :)

News groups are text. Ascii characters ... and there's plenty of ways to
look at those (news readers) and I'm sure that the vast majority would
prefer one of those if they knew about them.

As an aside, I've been fascinated by the occasional post with something like
... "if you found this helpful please press yes" ... cos we don't see any
buttons here. :) We also get an occasional pile of "stuff", presumably some
left over HTML or other formatting, presumably from some of the the forum
posts.