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    Posted: 24 November 2004 at 8:49am
The forum appears to act inconsistently when a member registers with strange characters in their nickname.

We have a new member called "[10mbit]rajtz".

We can send a PM by looking up the nickname in the normal manner. However, if we click the PM button we are presented with a user name of "[10mbit]rajtz" which will not send of course.

I guess the forum is protecting itself against dangerous html but am not sure that this is necessary on the PM button.

Indeed I hope the examples in this posting work OK...at least you get the idea !
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I know of the problem, but sending PM's will still work.
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I'm glad its known about but it does not work when you click the PM button and it is this that forum members are having trouble with.

The message received is:

Your Private Message "test", has not been sent!

The Username you have entered can not be found.

I recognise there is a work-around of looking up the name. However, many members do not discover this and are unable to PM this guy - I'm getting asked.

I acknowledge its a low priority thing in the scheme of things borg - just wanted to get in on the map !
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For the moment, till version 8 is released next year, you will just have to checnge this users username.

Version 8 will also not allow usernames characters such as []{}:~ etc. which course problems.
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Thanks for sharing your plan - we will try to identify and change any usernames containing odd characters in time for version 8.
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