Mary,

I guess that editing the user list would be a major PITA. However, I have tried looking for someone a few times where I can sort of vaguely remember the user name but can't remember it exactly. This has happened particularly where I was looking for some information from a post but couldn't remember the thread, but could (I thought) remember the username. When I realised that I didn't have the right username I resorted to browsing the relevant alphabetical section of the userlist, hoping that a name would jog my memory and then I could look at the user's posts.

I guess you could eliminate the userlist being available if it was still accessible via Search? - I've just tried using the search facility to search for usernames ja* (* as a wildcard) and it won't let me do it.

It'll work if I already know the username, but that's not a lot of use in the scenario I've outlined. In fact I've just tried entering * as a wildcard in a couple of searches and it won't work. I guess it just doesn't recognise wildcards? Can this be amended?