One of the top news items this lunchtime is the sentencing of David Heiss to life imprisonment for the murder of Matthew Pyke - a web forum administrator.  Full BBC report at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8040178.stm

and an earlier report from the Nottingam paper at:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Murder-suspect-met-alleged-victim-web-forum/article-952425-detail/article.html

The BBC story has a "web warning" section towards the end, cautioning everyone against revealing too much personal information about themselves on line; it's a warning often heard, but I felt it worth re-iterating it here. "Think before you post personal data".

With the exception of the "Frequent Poster's Club", all the posts you make when logged in as a regular user can be read by other users, and by guests too - and we do not (and cannot easily) select our guests.  Personal Messages are delivered only to the person / people you choose to message, but anyone can choose to join the forum and acceptance of a membership request does not (and cannot) give any indication of a person's character.

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