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My wife had this error recently when trying to email a friend in Switzerland using T'bird/Plusnet. No gmail involved and we've not been migrated yet (AFAIK). Fortunately, she also had a work address which seems to have gone through.

Still nothing here.

Now nearly the end of October and I've had no contact about the move. I've been with Plus since Feb 2004 so it could be first in, last out. My sister, who joined a few years later but now only had a free email account, had notification earlier this year and moved to Gmail.

I suspect the A400M is the only one. The C130 doesn't do it and I'm pretty sure nothing earlier will. There are very few current four prop aircraft. The interesting one is the Tu-95 which looks like it has counter rotating props on each engine to achieve the same effect as the A400M.

Yes, the A400M is the replacement for the C130 (AKA Fat Albert). Note that the props on each pair of engines rotate in opposite directions to help it fly straight..

'Out-of-date ice-cream?' I really don't understand that as a concept..... ;)

I had a 12-200mm briefly and just couldn't get on with it. Can't remember why as it was a few years ago. These days I just put up with the weight of my 12-100mm.

I have a rule-of-thumb of around 10% of the cost of the lens.

Do you ever check that the data on your archived cards are still good? SD cards aren't the best things for long-term storage.

We went in 2013 at the end of May and had remarkably good weather. I used a Nikon D5100 and 16-85mm lens for nearly everything. I had a 75-300mm with me but only used it from the boat when still in Southampton and for the midnight sun shots. You can see the results at...

I had been wondering why my sister said she had to change her email address and now I know. She's gone to gmail. I've not had any notifications about the change yet and I've just renewed my broadband/land-line contract for another 18 months without any problems. I do have my <surname>.co.uk...

No, it doesn't. BIOS settings are stored in non-volatile EEPROM (or whatever). The battery just keeps the date and time going.

I've had one for ages but never got round to building it. If I ever do, I'll use glue to make sure it's more light tight than as designed.

OM-5 and 12-100mm does most of what I need. I sometimes take an 8-25mm as well but usually can't be bothered to change to it.

No, there are rumours and logical thoughts of no replacement. I had all four RX10 models but got fed up with a couple of aspects of the IV and now use an OM-5 and 12-100mm which does the vast majority of what I need.