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Not at all mate it's just when you're selling your home, you're cars, all your worldly possesions then moving with 2 suitcases to half way accross the globe then trying to find jobs, get accomodation, get your residents visa, your international driving licence, find a new car, setting up finance blah blah blah, a wee email would have been nice.

ally wrote: I got a letter from them, apparently you have to log in using your surname or real name, your membership number & a password that you have to give to them, I just stay on here too as all the gang is here anyway

That was my understanding regarding naming too, but how did 325iRon, Muppet2 and NeRo, etc. get to register with those names?

Steven, thats a great point, i did'nt look at it from that angle, thats the good thing about being in contact with so many people, you'll always get to see good and the bad of sides.

Cheers mate      

Went to see an E39 M5, unfortunetly it was a right dud, arab owner from Abu Dhabi did'nt look after it at all!!!

Popped the hood, started her up, heard the dodgy clicking noise from the VANOS unit, noticed the damp oil patch on the underside of the plastic engine bay cover and the instruments in German and the badly cracked windscreen and  and  and  and!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was advertised at 75k but the guy started talking about 65k after i started pointing it all out, theres quite a few out here and i'm going to wait and get one,MMMMMMMMMM, M5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nero wrote: Maybe you should put the question to the Club Chairman - whose username is JeffH and was known as Chairbear or Bimmon on the previous version of this forum Do as I say, not as I do

lol - yeah, if it wasn't for the password thing I might just do that!  From the open bit on it though, it looks like the chairman has been a bit slow to acknowledge your feedback!

On the other question of why someone would want to use an alias, I reckon its quite simple.  Privacy.  The more personal information that is out there on the web the more spam, etc. I'll get and the greater the risk of some form of identity theft, etc.  Most spam is down to the fact that you've added yourself to a mailing list and the list has either been sold or hacked. 

The next time you buy or sell a car, google the name of the vendor or buyer, get their work e-mail address and see what you can find out.  Its probably more than you'd imagine.  Then imagine what someone with a bit of technical knowledge and malicious intent could find out.

If you can find stuff out about them, they can equally find it out about you.

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Cheers Pete, whats happening on the sig pic front Pete??? you got something tasty lined up or are you waitin till after Gaydon???