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 Their argument was that they had changed T&Cs and my complaint was therefore no longer valid.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!

It sounds as if you have far more important things to worry about Carrie.

Hope the scan goes well.

Hey, Carrie, hope the scan goes well. Bloody hell, if you're looking forward to it, work must be fun-fun-fun atm

What's SWMNBM?

single, white, mumsnet, big, ??

hope scan goes ok Carrie.

Think it is a bit rich of DM to delete MN posters on comments section but carry on nicking other stuff to fill their pages though.

She Who Must Not Be Named. [do a search if you must]

SWMNBN = She Who Must Not Be Named aka Gina Ford - it's how we used to refer to
her during the time we weren't allowed to mention her.

oh ok - thanks.

hope scan goes well Carrie.

Hope scan goes well Carrie

Nellietheellie - your point is very interesting - for anyone who missed it nellie has noticed that the old (well as in not "this week") pack up thread was revived - this week - by a new user, her name first appearing on MN that day.....

Anyone fancy adding that to our conspiracy theories? Wasn't it said further up the thread (possibly even by me - i can't recal) that the way the DM could get anything they like from the archives into "this week" would be to join up/namechange and bump the thread - instant copy, regardless of how old or out of date it is!

Carrie, I'm guessing you meant "Hell NO and Hell YES"

"BUT - and please keep reading before you respond to my post. Do I want long standing members - or even short standing members - to be outraged, upset, leave, feel insulted, betrayed etc ? Would I like to make all this ill-feeling, bitterness and anger stop? Hell, yes."

I hope all goes well with the scan.

Erm, yes, I know she did VVVQV!

Carrie, really hope your scan goes well.

Lol at the missing hell no. Maybe she's just had enough and means it 'do i want people to just LEAVE? - HELL YES'.

Boco, it is possible - and I suspect it would mean they could all stop free-basing Nurofen up at the towers

Hope scan ok - I had one and it was very interesting and very ok which is always makes them more enjoyable.

all the best with your scan, carrie.

the comments on the DM web page are very amusing but the more you post and the more clicks it gets the more popular the column looks....the last two weeks barely clocked a dozen comments between them.

Lol Kingcnut

But Nancy, they know it is us taking the piss...they won't have any meaningful data regarding other visitors, readers or commentators...and when we are all bored of it, it'll go back to one or two comments, Surely?

which one was yours madame?

I'm trying to work out if any of them are genuine? !

three at the most I would say.

KingCnutBoredOfDMButWontLetGo - thanks for acknowledging my point. It seemed to have gotten lost amongst babygro chat

Just to add to the conspiracy theory, the person who re-opened the Nursery/lunch thread did ALOT of posting on various threads that day and the next. They were almost all just one word messages, but on searching their name it gave the 'impression' that they were a longstanding poster - a little trick that a 'regular' mumsnetter could do to divert attention away from being a first time poster... hmmm... Wasn't LH a regular mumsnetter??

It is very interesting behaviour Nellie... I wonder how many "real" MNers would behave that way? It could be a real regular namechanging then carrying on as usual I guess...