Ok, so a recent thread regarding TPI383 got me to check his profile again to see if he's been active on this board. So I went to the member list, searched for "TPI383" and this is what popped up:



Now, I know that TPI has been around at least as long as me, and has more posts, so I was wondering what's up with the three posts he had. Clicking on it got me this.



Ok, so the guy registered in 1999, but his last visit was 1969. I knew he was around before me, but sweet liberty, I don't think he's that old! (obviously a server time problem after a crash or something) Now, why isn't the real TPI383 showing up? This Dave guy isn't Chris, and I know Chris has a lot more posts. Trotting over to my warchest of interstellar PMs, I find one from Chris. Clicking on his profile, I get this:



Booya! Everything is as it should be, or is it? Why don't we have a "Last Visited" date for him? The guy was here (according to a post search) and posted just a few days ago. Hmmmm...

I'm thinking that part of the confusion regarding people sending him PMs to which he doesn't respond is due to this other TPI383 (same name, and the forum software should have caught it when registering) and forwarding everything to this junior post guy from 1969. Anywho, I just thought I would bring this to your attention, as it might be causing some problems.

Edit: Why doesn't it show these attachments in the post even when I add img tags?

 

They are not the same user name. One is a lower case letter L, while the other is an I. So they are actually two different user names and of course user ids.

 

Ok I feel stupid. Thanks. Must be this senior status that I've gotten.