The MN Mail Column - what we think, and what we plan to do next... part 2

[whataboutthisone]

Firstly, I am a regular but have created a new name for this.

My thoughts about what I know so far:

1. In a much earlier post there was a discussion about a change in T&Cs and whether they are valid or not. Several years ago I took a company to court for a breach of their T&Cs. Their argument was that they had changed T&Cs and my complaint was therefore no longer valid. However, the judge said that because I had not specifically been asked to accept the new T&Cs, I was entitled to rely on the ones I had accepted and therefore I won my case.

1. I choose to post on MN in the knowledge that the details I give are probably just obscure enough to anyone I may know in RL who also posts, so that what I say still effectively remains private. However, that doesn't mean that the same could be said of, for instance, my mother, who reads the DM (!) There is probably just enough about my circumstances that would enable her to put 2+2 together. I would like the option to choose whether or not I let my Mum ( or anyone else in RL) in on certain areas of my life, and there is a real possibility that this hack, has taken that choice away from me.

1. I have never ( and now will never) post asking for advice, but I will also be very careful about offering advice in the future. I, along with many others, occasionally use examples from my life to explain where I am coming from. If I continue to do that, as I said earlier, it is possible that some people would be able to work out who I am. Now, I am not so big-headed as to believe that any advice I offer is worth taking, however, there are many fantastic posters on here who do give amazing and insightful advice based on their own experiences. It would be a real shame if that was to stop because they, like me, do not want to share some of those experiences with the folk they are close to in RL. It would also be a real tragedy if others were prevented from asking for help for the same reasons.

I am very disappointed that any MNer would feel it is acceptable to violate the trust we place in each other on this forum. I do not know who she is. I do not want to know who she is. But I hope she is hanging her head in shame for breaching the trust that has been placed in her by everyone whose words she has stolen to make a few bucks!

The rest may have been great Stripey, I just got as far as that one then decided I liked my sanity too much to risk reding more

Do you mean could you sue another poster if they defamed you on here? Mmmm, well going on what others have said about libel you may get more £££ from sueing HQ

Given that to my generation, 'lunchbox' refers to Linford Christie's, um, attributes, I think we should start a thread along those lines pdq.

maaaaaaaaaan, guys... carrie, justine, all of you at MNHQ.

i really wish you'd fought this.

i know why you didn't, of course i do. and i can't exactly blame you for it.

but i wish you'd fought them on fair use. that was your opportunity to draw a line in the sand for all of us.

ss; all part of celeb life really..

do you remember "spitting image"

ah, another trip down memory lane - loved spitting image. tragically I don't think that MN sleb-slagging reaches the political satire heights of spitting image.

MD....i loved it....esp as "grey" john major really was having an affar...lol,

oh, can you imagine the joy of them running with that?

Met John Major once, and am embarrassed to say he was utterly charming and rather charismatic...sort of explained how he got the job tho...

they had him having an affair with VB...just to make him interesting....lol

my dh has met JM....he said exactly the same...nicest man he's ever met.

VB, lordy, had forgotten about her. are we showing our age daft?

Now, there's a headline, Daft and MD bond over JM

lol MD...i'm not actually that old...and anyway, 60 is the new 40 you know!

bed time reading for you MD

nite x

So sweet, daft. a lovely link. nite to you.

hmmmm. if they're negotiating around the frills they're basically holding their hands up going into it, though.

fair enough, can't blame them. publicity good and all that, it's a business etc.

it's just that this seems like a bad marriage, i think.

SS; what did that idiot on top gear call GB..?

it's not just women who get ripped apart

not that i'm obsessed with politics...

I agree Aitch. But that is their choice. My concern, from a business point of view, is that if you roll over because you percieve some kind of benefit to your enterprise in the short term, you run the risk of paving the way for continued piracy which you might well object to.

Obviously, I object to the DM partnership. That is my personal balking point, but it could get a lot worse, and destroy the MN brand, and utterly devalue their potential revenue streams.

I think it is a bad partnership too.

DP, you are meant to be in bed.

Let's not go there re the Top Gear GB thing, It wasn't nice.

I've read sporadically the DM threads and apologise in advance if this is old ground. Why doesn't MN abandon the subscription CAT system now? And go for a standard PM system like other forums. I can't imagine the CAT subscriptions contribute greatly to revenue nowadays and I see so many MNers giving email addresses in posts as they don't want to subscribe.

Huh... nearly 5000 posts, and no-one's outed Zoe Williams' chatname yet? Meh...