First off I should point out that my previous posting was written in a hurry and while I was in the middle of sorting a problem with the PA. Part of it seems to imply that some of the "offensive 'stick'" I referred to came from Max, which it hasn't. However, Max has stated that he was fed up with people posting about local events on a worldwide forum and it was this comment that finally convinced me to go elsewhere.

Anyway, thanks for the positive comments. It is kind of difficult when some seem to want the news and some see it as being pushy and irritating.

We do have a permathread but that didn't seem to solve the problem and I got fed up with deleting comments, which at one stage became extremely personal.

Interestingly we are just coming to the end of a little experiment that is kind of a real world version of our web newsletters. We've been distributing flyers for Saturday's events door to door. Now that COULD be seen as being REALLY pushy! Posting an accurately titled promotional thread on a forum seems very small beer compared to actually opening a gate and physically walking onto a person's property, uninvited, to promote an event. I was expecting to find a real world equivalent of the mudcat nasties - imagine the scene - me running out of someone's drive with an Alsatian clamped to my left buttock and a colonel blimp type running after me with a blunderbuss ...

Didn't happen I'm pleased to say. In fact people have been amazingly welcoming, in many cases seeming to be very grateful that I've taken the trouble to find them and hand over a leaflet. It's restored my faith in human nature!

And to minimise thread hijacking …. I've always liked trams. In fact my parents have a collection of model trams ...