Ray, and anyone else who hasn't read the threads, bizarrely for the last 3 weeks on Thursdays a journalist has "written" a column entitled "Today on Mumsnet" - lifting a lot of the words straight out. In some cases she's mixed up usernames, in others she's changed them and used them in part.
Last week was particularly alarming, as the conversation lifted from MN was an employment problem. I think this week's conversation about packed lunches was relatively harmless and that people aren't actually that identifiable by anyone who doesn't already hang out on MN.
I'm quite upset that so many people including AN/PN friends are now worrying about posting etc. I think these threads aren't so vulnerable because they don't lend themselves to lifting a whole story as some of the problem/topical issue threads do. Name changes might help.
(several hours go by)
Written at midday but didn't post before I went out.