Actually, this did kind of happen to me on a board I posted at years ago. It was an okay place, nothing that exciting, and after a while - right before 9/11 actually - I lost interest in it and didn't post for a while. When the attacks happened, the posters took a quick count of NYers on the board and who wasn't checking in - I was one of them. So apparently, they all kind of freaked out a little, and figured I was dead. About a year later, I stuck my head back into the board to say hi, how's it going, sorry I haven't posted in a long time, how's everyone? Let me tell ya, the reception I got was fairly frosty. It was pretty much "Oh, you're back. Well - thanks for letting us know you didn't die in the 9/11 attacks. Bitch." I mean, it wasn't a board where I got close to alot of people, so it wasn't a situation where I thought, "I've gotten to be pretty good friends with some of those folks, I'd better let them know I'm okay" - you know, like THIS board. I honestly didn't think about it.