what is the difference between a newsgroup and a discussion forum?
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The term "newsgroup" refers to a specific type of discussion forum, the Usenet network.  It's based on the UUCP and NNTP protocols, and has been around for decades.  The term "discussion forum" usually refers to a web site where discussions happen.  They are much newer (the web itself only dates back to the early 1990s).
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It is not intended to be a chat room at all, nor does it follow a similar format.\n\nA chat room offers a way for people to interact real time.  Mostly about nonsense, sometimes about something in particular.  Again, people are communicating real time, back and forth.\n\nYahoo! Answers offers people a way to ask a question, and solicit feedback from other participants.  It is not real time, and there is little immediate interaction.  It is not intended to be used as a method of direct communication---It is meant to pose questions and share answers.\n\nAs mentioned in Yahoo's own description, the topics can be from the silly to the serious, just like a chat room, but it's not a way to communicate like a chat room.
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Try yahoo messageboards http://messages.yahoo.com . people post messages or share ideas there.\nYahoo groups http://groups.yahoo.com - this is where people with common interests form groups and share among themselves tips or information.\nyou can also try wikipedia - http://wikipedia.org but this is more like a common encyclopaedia where anyone can add/edit the information.
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It is a cave discussion board, a cavechat. Discussion topics include caving, vertical caving, cave rescue, cave photography, cave information, cave gear, cave news, cave conservation and other cave related topics.
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Most news ends up on both; I prefer digg, since I find the interface less cluttered.
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This is not a forum. It is not meant for discussions, it's meant for asking questions. If you want to add to your question, click the "edit" button.
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What kind of forums as in a community forum?  If so please look at this opensource forum.  phpBB
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I agree that phpbb is an excellent forum. So too, on the free front, is Simple Machines forum; on the paid front, vBulletin is another great product.\n\nThe short is, you really don't need to reinvent the wheel here.
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That stinks that the group one doesn't work, wonder what happened?  I'm a groups owner too.  I use a paid one but they have free ones through Raidersoft, http://www.raidersoft.com/ and also http://chat-forum.com/  I'm not sure how many people can go in the free ones but mine is paid, I can have up to 300 I believe.  How often do you meet?
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yahoo answer and chat rooms
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Yes I agree with all that, I can't see much to discuss there? unless you are looking for an alternative like Communism?\nI don't think that would go down very well on this forum!\nWhy not readdress your question and ask for , or even suggest alternatives? Good luck with that, I follow your drift but it doesn't really leave much scope for discussion.
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I havent really learned much except people really like to be right. \n I only started using yahoo answers because of the politics section, it was a much better format than message boards or chat rooms. It is fun stuff, thats all.
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Personaly, my favorite is delphiforums.com - you can start forums for free, but you really get a lot of good admin options if you pay the fee. But you don't NEED to pay. And there are tons and tons of people on delphiforums.  I have a few forums there, and there are dozens of active posters in just one of my groups alone.
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Chatty in what sense? \n\nThis isn't really a forum for conversation which would require numerous feedback sessions between you and those that answer. You ask, we answer, you pick best answer and state your claim as to why.\n\nChatty I would imagine would be left to the live forms such as chat rooms.\n\nI'm not sure why you were violated but was just presenting my argument based on what I think the Yahoo gods are using as reasons.
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Personally I'd say The Ship... It's a Lycos-Yahoo! chat thingy, and it's actually full of relatively sane people! (the best thing is they aren't all after no string "meetings") Try it out! Go to the Yahoo! home page, and click on Chat. It's a really good site\n\nx x x
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Yes you will need a news server account.  There are a couple free ones but I would suggest http://www.easynews.com they are very reasonable.\n\nThen you will get a username and password and access to the news server.\n\nAlso your ISP may have newsgroup server as well.  Look through documentation or call them.  Some provide this service for free while others charge just a nominal fee.
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Yahoo just wants this place to be popular. They care little about actual discussion or rights. It's just the whole nature of business in general... a business will do anything that will promote its product and it will avoid anything that will do nothing for it. \n\nRace discussions are generally highly subjective and the negative risks of such a discussion outweigh any positive gain for Yahoo. Thus, they ban it. Rights of individuals has nothing to do with it.