Finding a Member

[oifvet]

I want to PM someone who is not logged on.

Is there a faster way to find a member without having to page through almost every member first?

If looking for somone in the "M" part of the alphabet, in order to send them a PM, it takes forever to go page after page in "ascending order.

 

[73m819]

you can go to the Ms ,then depending on the name try different pages

 

[oifvet]

How do I "jump" to the "M's?"

 

[WillWagner]

There used to be letters on the top of the members lookup page, they aren't there now.

 

[73m819]

sorry, will beat me to it, boy the new way sure takes a lot of time, sometimes NEW is not better, as a thought , can you enter the members name in the search and fine it that way

 

[oifvet]

O.K., I'll try that.

 

[Mike_Pop]

I've made a suggestion to Mangus580 about this but haven't seen anything done. Maybe we can have a database file that we can download and be able to search on any item in a table?

 

[73m819]

use the search, click entire site, just type in the name, brings up everything, just did a test search, it works

 

[Mike_Pop]

Yes, but what if you don't know the person's last name or their SS name?

 

[73m819]

the last name, for that matter the first name is not posted much, as far as the SS name ,if you dont know it, search a topic that thay may have posted in, then get it from there

 

[joec]

I did a search like that took awhile to find them.

 

[Mike_Pop]

There's got to be an easier way.

 

[pa.rich]

Tell us the subject, maybe one of us will remember. Stranger things have happened!

 

[oifvet]

I was trying to get to "meglog" for his guru abilities. He wasn't on-line much these past few days, or I could have just picked up him PM flag and got it done. I eventually worked my way through the member list until I got to the "M's."

When you do that, you realize how many mambers there are. Wow!!

(I'm wondering if it would be beneficial to have an "active" and "in-active" members list. Active= login w/i past __ days; Inactive= no logins w/i past __ days). PITA?????

It would be nice to be able to select the alpha-character of a member if you just want to PM or e-mail them when they are off-line.