>>>>>>Hi Michel,
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>>>>>>I'm just wondering, is there a way to send private message via toolbar? Currently I have to open my private messages, find the user and send it, which is a little bit inconvenient. May be you can add some direct way to do it?
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>>>>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>>>>Great suggestion. It's been needed for sometime. Currently, you have to find a message from/to that user or do a search to find them. Both can be inconvenient.
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>>>>Sure, it is more convenient when UT knows itself who do you want to send message to. :) But if it does not, then you have to find the user anyway. After the user is found there is a "Send the Private Message" link. My understanding is that the proposed toolbar link to Send the Private Message would not really shorten this process as you still need to find the user.
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>>>Instead of User's ID can we just type user's first/last name with autofill feature? I don't know, if it could be achieved, but if yes, it would be great.
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>>Will not really work as there are many people with the same names, for example:
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>>48. David Smith  024738 Visual Development Studio United Kingdom, Chelmsford
>>49. David Smith  032868 Mohawk Industries United States, Calhoun, Georgia
>>50. David Smith  034887 United Kingdom, London
>>51. David Smith  037179 Samara Computer Services United Kingdom, Chelmsford
>>52. David Smith  037851 Corpdata Limited United Kingdom, Teignmouth
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>>I can only guess if
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>>48. David Smith  024738 Visual Development Studio United Kingdom, Chelmsford
>>51. David Smith  037179 Samara Computer Services United Kingdom, Chelmsford
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>>is the same person. You will need the additional checks anyway. All you can save here is one mouse click (with a lot of overhead).
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>Isn't it even worse than this, Nick?. . .
>Assuming that one comes to the conclusion that they are indeed the same person. One should then check to see which one has been used most recently, else there seems the very real risk that the message will never be seen by the intended anyway. They may have stopped logging in with the ID chosen to send to long ago.

Yes, It is really worse. I handle them all the time. Some accounts get removed, some joined into one. But we do not remove the "dead souls" if they have messages posted, in order to maintain the messages database integrity.