OK everyone, if everyone chipped in then the operator of this site could buy more bandwidth. But evidently I am not the only one who hasn't contributed, perhaps because this looks like a standard commercial site funded by popup adverts, like Fool and many others. The GA forum is just one of quite a number here and most likely most people just tolerate it, and then drop out.
But that's not the solution I was finally suggesting. Usenet is free, is very fast, it cannot be moderated but that just means people have to be more careful what they write, and one needs to be able to tolerate some jokers.
The only downside of Usenet is that it all gets archived into Google but since most people here use nicknames anyway, that doesn't matter.
Of course I cannot expect a commercial site to support my suggestion, so I won't say any more on the subject and I will now b****r off.