On or around Sat, 7 Oct 2006 00:03:30 +0100, "SimonJ" enlightened us thusly:
says who?
says who?
and besides, sometimes the information is of interest: suppose someone asks whether Beamends can supply a certain part, and if so at what price. It might well prove that other people will be interested in the answer. For example, I've often noted the answer to a question about a particular part, and thereby saved both my time and Richard's time by not having to ask the same question again.
Granted, Richard has a website, and as such things go it's quite good, but it can still be difficult to find particular parts, especially if you don't happen to know either the part number or the "correct" name.
and if email isn't working for some reason?
Newsgroups are "for" whatever the people using the group want them to be "for". If you don't like a particular aspect, you have choices including ignoring it, killing threads, filtering on subject or poster, or even not bothering to read the group at all.
You don't have the right to prevent people from posting things which are relevant to the group but which you don't happen to like - and you'd have a hard time convincing anyone, even if there were anyone to convince, that questions about LR parts are off-topic in AFL. Come to that, you can't, in any case, prevent people posting etc., as innumerable trolls often prove.
In the case in question, the threads are almost always clearly identifiable by subject and should be easily ignored if they bore you, or to filter for if you can't be bothered to simply skip to the next message or thread. Basically, it's down to every reader to decide what, if any, of the group content they want to read, except of course for moderated groups - which are the only groups where any sort of control is or can be imposed.