I just wanted to bring something to everyone's attention following a rather nasty / threatening email I got today from a member who used his real name on here as his login name. He found one of his posts on here when he did a google for his name.
He said that I should have this as a closed forum and not allow the threads to be on Google etc and I am letting people down doing this.
This forum is "open" on the internet in that search engines like Google, Yahoo etc will scan the site and when people search for keywords they may end up finding a thread on this forum. We chose for this to happen so that people can find us and see they are not alone when they google their symptoms etc.
It is made clear when you join that we will protect your email address from spam (unless you write it in a post of course) but we cannot guarantee that your post will not end up in a search engine.
If anyone is concerned about this then please feel free to post here and the admins are happy to change any login names as necessary if you are concerned.
Any comments are appreciated.
Thanks