Invalid Characters in User Name

[BobBong]

The chat system assumes all usernames are restricted to A-Z, 0-9, blank (space), and period...

Appearantly, at some point the restrictions were lifted for username registrations on the message boards allowing usernames to contain characters outside those bounds, such as underscores, exclaimation points, astrisks, etc ... the chat gateway simply won't allow those, but could be easily modified with less or even no character filtering.

Hope this helps.

Ron

It does help, Hope all is well in Ron Land.

Bob.