>>>I was just doing a search for certain information. I knew it was in a post by Kevin Goff. I wanted to search only messages created by him, but I did not know his user ID (21028), so I tried to look up his name with the lookup button next to the user ID field. When a surname of "Goff" is used to search, there are 4 results but none of them are Kevin Goff.
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>>>I had to look up posts by Walter Meester to find one he sent to Kevin, in order to get Kevin's user ID. Once I had that I could manually type that ID into the field and find messages by Kevin. This is inconvenient.
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>>>Could you please make it so banned members appear in member ID search results? Thank you.
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>>No, we cannot change that. Sorry
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>I agree with Tracy, it is a big loss for us not to be able to see old messages in technical forums.

Makes you wonder about the price of admission.