You have been blessed Dale.
Any Personal search here on ETO brings up an error for you. I purposely checked because Years ago when I joined a Forum in 2005...I used my real name too. I did not know better then. But I learned thereafter....
So your posts are forever written in Stone. Of course, if you are feeling twitchy or worried about anything you said here you could just go back and delete all your posts.......unless another Member has quoted part or all of your post/s. Then you are stuffed. Cant touch those.
Not giving you ideas just saying it's do-able....Will not make you liked though. Because it causes Havoc for Mods trying to clean threads where nothing makes sense anymore. Definitely not a good idea.
I remember on that specific Forum in 2005.....a Member that was valued with Technical information was all over the show. He answered questions accurately left right and center....accurately. Held in high esteem by all.
Until he visited their Off Topic area of the forum....there he lost it many times. Went kinda awry.
Because mostly anything goes there...and he was out of his comfort zone of Technical info.
Some Guys gently teased him there and gave him a little "be normal" advise.....he did not really get it. And then he got into an argument with a Guy he had helped earlier......he got upset and left and went back to the normal Technical forum...and proceeded to DELETE EVERY SINGLE TECHNICAL post he had ever made..
And there were literally thousands.... Needless to say he was banned forever.
Back to my original point.....only post stuff on the NET if you are comfortable posting ....be it under your real name or an assumed one..
I mean guys like Nigel and Eric expose themselves to all and Sundry on the NET.
Me, I can go on and maybe have a little fun.....sure if people REALLY want to find me they will.
So, forums being forums , and the Net being the Net......and I have posted LOT'S of personal stuff here....I would not retract a single post (except the ones I read later where I realize I have unnecessarily rambled. I try and clean up after myself).
Because I get it out here. In good company. With people that understand.
WOW that was a long post
Lecturing myself again
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