Yeah can't find any of his posts either

I have no idea?

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Dear all in regards to Pepsi he's fine and dandy, but here below is why you won't see him on line anymore.

This might sound strange to you as it did to me, but I got a message from him on Friday night, titled time to move on, saying he's bought a different bike and decided that whilst he loved the time he spent here, and appreciated all the friends he made and praised me and the other admins for the hard work he said he wanted a clean cut, and before I could even suggest that he didn't need to leave on account of having a few bike he specifically requested me to remove all his posts 975 of them which its a pain in the ass as I can only delete them in batches of 25 at a time.

So, now I am halfway through that but then he asked that his whole membership to be deleted including email address and ip address, I told him that would have been pointless but he insisted he wanted a complete digital deletion and I told him ok fine.

So that's why Pepsi for the time being is username Who? until I remove all his f*ing posts. More work for me, aye?

Note to all, this I won't do again to any other who wish to leave. the door is your off button and your old digital footprint in this forum will only be buried under new messages and in a few years time, no one will ever read them.
Next person asks me this incredible request will get a short reply composed or two words.

Main thing is, he's still alive and kicking... just on a new bike.

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As you say Pleiades, at least his OK, & thanks for the explanation Capt'n. Hell of a strange though.
Oh well each to their own, Great bloke & nice to have had a good banter with.

If you happen to look in on this ( Artist formerly known as Pepsi !! ) Keep well & all the best mate it was a pleasure, you will be missed.

Maybe not. He did let out once or twice some details of his past, and also where he lives, along with photos. I'm not going to repeat any of it out of respect, he was a good guy. But it's not too hard to draw a conclusion considering the specific requests.

Unfortunately, under the fantastic EU rulings, IP addresses (the ones on the web, not your local public ones) are considered personal information.... as are email addresses (feckling ridiculous rules they are), and phone numbers too!! so a request to remove them has the support of statute, and will after the UK leaves the EU (thanks to the recent 'adopt all the EU laws law that's going through parliament). Yep - no one thought that particular piece of ruling through, it's a PITA to anyone working in IT security, but it has wide ranging implications to anyone running a forum too.

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Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

And so all posts have now been removed, IP address masked with a random one, email address removed, age, username deleted.

Pepsi is now who? Part of the inactive members.

That sounds like a lot of hard work.
It's a shame he has gone, I do understand why he has asked for everything to be deleted, but a lot of his stuff was very helpful.
Hope he enjoys the new bike whatever it may be