@nakedape
Message alters as in alerting a member they have a mention in your post by using the '@' symbol. The member then sees a (You have a private message from...) in the top of the forum. Anyway, the board software is hit and miss with this at times. The post is supposed to turn your @whomever into a hyperlink, but a lot of times it doesn't. I have found that by doing a quick edit, changing nothing, and resaving it once or twice gets it to finally appear as a hyperlink. I've never seen those not get to the intended member but what's weird is sometimes they seem to get through when they don't show as a hyperlink, anyway. There is no way to fix this inconsistency since the software is no longer supported.
So if you ever don't hear back from a member you alerted in a post, check to see if the @whomever is hyperlinked and also check to see if the member name is correct. I saw someone mention Terry Richie but just used @Terry, which is not his user name. Wrong user names NEVER appear as hyperlinks, which is why I wish the system would always hyperlink correct ones on the initial post. That way, if it didn't appear linked, you would know the user name was input incorrectly. So the user name must be exact, but the system doesn't appear to be case sensitive. Notice I alerted you in all lowercase.
Pete
Message alters as in alerting a member they have a mention in your post by using the '@' symbol. The member then sees a (You have a private message from...) in the top of the forum. Anyway, the board software is hit and miss with this at times. The post is supposed to turn your @whomever into a hyperlink, but a lot of times it doesn't. I have found that by doing a quick edit, changing nothing, and resaving it once or twice gets it to finally appear as a hyperlink. I've never seen those not get to the intended member but what's weird is sometimes they seem to get through when they don't show as a hyperlink, anyway. There is no way to fix this inconsistency since the software is no longer supported.
So if you ever don't hear back from a member you alerted in a post, check to see if the @whomever is hyperlinked and also check to see if the member name is correct. I saw someone mention Terry Richie but just used @Terry, which is not his user name. Wrong user names NEVER appear as hyperlinks, which is why I wish the system would always hyperlink correct ones on the initial post. That way, if it didn't appear linked, you would know the user name was input incorrectly. So the user name must be exact, but the system doesn't appear to be case sensitive. Notice I alerted you in all lowercase.
Pete