Welcome to the MS People UK Forum

Unregistered Guests may View/Read but to be able to Post/Reply you need to Register first.

The language of the Forum is English but, as it might not be the mother-tongue of some contributors, please be tolerant of spelling and grammatical errors. Our members are people who either have varying degrees of Multiple Sclerosis or who are friends, family or supporters of those with MS. Please have consideration and an open mind for one another.

We hope this will become a place for both give and take. Don't hesitate to contribute, especially if you can help another contributor. Information, suggestions, views and news on subjects of mutual and relevant interest to MS sufferers and their friends and family is welcome.

The Forum is open to everybody to read. If you wish to post to the Forum, you must first register by clicking "Register" at the top of the page.

You are kindly asked to treat everyone with the same respect you expect to receive yourself.

How To Use The Forum

The Forum is made up of sub-forums, each with a section of its own. Choose one of the Forum sections. Within each Forum section are links which represent different topics (subjects, threads).

To start a new topic/subject/thread, click on the "New Topic" button. A new window will open. Enter your topic title, topic description if there is one, and then type in your text, questions and/or comments in the box below. You can click "Preview" to see if you want to change anything. When ready, click "Post New Topic".

To reply to an existing topic, click on the topic, then click "Add Reply". The remaining procedure is similar to the above.

Please do not click the "Email" button if you wish your reply to be visible in the Forum. The "Email" button sends a private email to the author of the post, which will not appear in the Forum (see below).

Topic Subject Titles

Try to be explicit when wording the title of your contribution. "My cat's driving me mad" or "How do you manage your garden pond?" is far better than "Help!".

Email Addresses

For reasons of discretion and privacy, your email address will not be visible to other members when you post on this Forum, unless you choose to type it into your post.

If you wish to privately email a member you must click on the "Email" button in one of that member's posts, and then include your email address (if you wish to give them your email address) in the body of that message which will be visible to the recipient only and will not be visible to other users of the Forum. How To'sThere is a whole list of "How To's" How to use the Forum under the Welcome and Forum Info category which you will hopefully find useful in showing you "How To" use the Forum.

Rules

• Everyone has a unique username which they chose on registering. Any usernames which are felt to be in bad taste can and will be deleted and may be replaced by Admin with a more appropriate username. If the latter should occur, you will be notified by email.

• Registered users must have a valid email address at all times. If your email address is found to be invalid at any time, your account might be deleted. Please make sure you keep your account details up-to-date within the " My Controls" section.

• All postings are the sole legal responsibility of their author.

• Messages posted within this entire Forum express only the views of the author of the message and do not necessarily reflect the views of the MS People.com Forum/website. Neither the MS People.com Forum/website nor any person or entity associated with them will be held responsible for the contents, accuracy, completeness or validity of any information posted in them.

• If someone says something that seems to upset or attack you, please stop and take a deep breath and and think about what you're responding with before replying; better still, sleep on it and it might be seen in a different light in the morning. It's all too easy to instantly react and retaliate and enter into personal conflict when one is feeling inflamed. Try not to react to what might read as a personal attack. The link below is a useful article on "Avoiding personal conflict on mailing lists": http://madmanweb.com/archives/0102avoiding_personal_conflict_on_mailing_lists.html

• Posting any material that is defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, inflammatory, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, misleading or knowingly false, or in violation of any law, is forbidden.

• Posting any copyrighted material without the express permission of the copyright holder is forbidden - unless such copyright is owned by the MS People.com Forum/website or by you. If you hold your own copyright, please include the copyright notice in your post.

• Advertisements for commercial or competing products/sites/forums, spam, chain letters, electronic petitions, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are forbidden.

• Besides the rules listed here, Admin may make certain requests via the Forum or email. Other changes to the rules may from time to time need to be made.

• Removal of your account - If at any time you wish to have your account removed from this Forum, please email Admin a request to do so and Admin will then confirm back to you that this has been done.

• We reserve the right to remove any member who violates the rules and guidelines at our sole discretion with or without notification.

• We may at our own discretion reserve the right to ban individual members or registration from any email service, ISP or user with or without notification.

• We reserve the right to edit or delete any post or topic for any reason whatsoever at our discretion. Posts may also be removed when they become old or inappropriate. The author of a post may request to have a post removed via Admin.

• We reserve the right to remove any posts or topics we deem inappropriate or disruptive.

• Please note that from time to time posts or topics may be removed for being inappropriate even though your individual post in that topic may have been perfectly fine. Please do not feel this reflects badly on you.

• Links to pornography, warez, or any other illegal transactions in any shape or form are forbidden.

• The Forum is intended for personal use only. Commercial posts and adverts are not allowed without prior permission.

If at any time any registered member feels they are being harassed in any way by another user, please report it to the Forum Administrator.  

Thank you and welcome!

Marina O'Brien, Forum Administrator
http://www.ms-people.com

With great thanks to The MS Trust for allowing me to do this.
http://www.mstrust.org.uk/

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