They have on the letters page a section for letters from people using pseudonyms. Wendy Boatcomesin would feel right at home there .

Hopefully your neighbours and the other runners who know you will realise you were doing nothing wrong, and will sympathise with you when you tell your tale.
There are always some over zealous busybodies about - they like to feel important by reporting innocent people. As your friend said the ones who commit the crimes don't behave like you were.

Whilst I'm all for social control and vigilance, something which generally is lacking today, people seem to over react sometimes. The newspapers are partly to blame for this - there are no more perverts around now than when I was a child in the 60s, but to read the rags nowadays you'd think every man was a potential child rapist, especially when armed with a camera. A very sad situation as you say.

Are you a private Eye reader by any chance Steve?

More useful than him most of the time certainly

Thanks. That is a relief. I shall treat him to one then with my tax money. Only fair as he bought me my K20D .

With my *IST Ds not worth repairing I am thinking of getting a K-m for my husband.
My question is this - we already have a kit lens (from the Ds), which he hardly uses and a Tamron 28-300 which he loves. Will the K-m's plastic mount be able to cope with the weight of the Tammy attached? I really don't want to spend money on any more lenses (for him at any rate :wink at the moment.
Or should I get him the X70, which is a similar price to the body only K-m, instead?

Welcome!
I grew up in Sunbury!

Yes, prices now are lower in the Euro zone, but a couple of months ago that was not the case. Plus we never get cash back offers like you do in the UK/USA/Canada. Prices here are rising also, just not by the same % as in the UK.

It could be that the spammers are just using the new members to PM because they are the first names they see in the members list, rather than for any other reason.

I think there have been enough topics about this on here now for any genuine member to read and realise it is not the fault of the forum admin.

When an entire forum is hacked it is obvious and a real mess for the admin. We had it once on our forum before PHPBB issued an urgent update to solve it. It's one of the reasons we closed our forum down though - we got sick of the spammers joining, even with a security thingy in the sign up page, and spending so much time just sorting that out.

But who says they are? Do you have figures to support this theory?. Don't bother answering - we will go too far off topic.