Light hearted but respectful balance needed
It's a fair point to make, Owen.
I'd say the test is whether anyone is going to be embarrassed by something on the board. Grahame is pretty good at sanitising and extracting but your views might require the sanitising to be a little more stringent where someone is identifiable by name or aircraft id or flight number.
Apart from that I think most of what we read is harmless fun and no-one would think that we have any malicious motives. In many ways our being peers and/or supporters of the message senders gives us a degree of legitimacy beyond that of total strangers but given that the board is crawled by search engine robots as well as by journalists from time to time your comments are a timely reminder that we do need to be circumspect and thoughtful if we want to continue to enjoy what is an indulgence not always accommodated in many countries.
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Philip
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