Adoption, fostering and a bit complex!

[zeebrugge]

I was adopted as a baby in 1971 and lived with my adopted parents until March 1987 when they were both drowned in the Zeebrugge Ferry disaster. I was put in short term foster care and then long term foster care until I timed out on my 18th birthday.

I was allowed to visit my former home, on the day after the funeral, to collect my belongings but never stayed there again. When my aunt and uncle came back from Denver in 1989 they lived there for a while.

Now I can sort of understand why I wasn't in the will, being adopted rather than a birth child. But as somebody told me over Christmas, and why I am writing, surely I was left something. Did I really matter so little.

Gosh Artex, you are good [admiring]

The 'real' names used are all really dated (70s?), as well. Its all Pam and Derek from down the road

Goodness, Artex. Admirably thorough.

Ok, you are probably right, but you have pointed out 16 possible versions o the same poster. For Mn to have no evidence, presumably each one is posted from a different IP address, and the hairy toed one has to manage this, and remember which name goes with which IP address. That's a big job!!

It is possible to have a dynamic IP address - one that changes every time - but probably MNHQ have never been asked to compare all those posters before. MNHQ have a nearly impossible job here.

Ok, just goes to show that I don't know much about IP addresses!

Surely any net-savvy reader would know that the percentage of genuine messages in most of the site sections is close to zero. Where does the assumption come from that Mumsnet is exempt from the problem of trolls and the like that?s endemic elsewhere.

The local writers group of which I am a mere humble functionary introduced members to Mumsnet to encourage flash fiction entries in the annual competition. It was some time before I even realised that the messages I was reading were supposed to be genuine.

Haberdashery - Name changing hardly accounts as an advanced skill. I would be prepared to bet that most posters here have had more than one user name either consecutively or concurrently.
I'm just sitting here shocked that Levantine is somehow expecting Mumsnet to be different from the rest of cyberspace. Why do you think so many groups are moderated or by invitation only or simply known and accepted by users for what they are?
Please, please tell me that you don't believe most of the postings on Relationships any more than you would believe what gets posted on Yahoo. "I caught my daughter with a dildo, what should I do" or the "true stories" (misery lit) on offer in Waterstones.

I am amazed there are so many of them!