Hi Nichol, I see she is indeed a member and got her Member Page to come up. She has no email link, or location on her Member Page. There has been a problem for some time now in that 'some' member pages do not come up via a Member Search. What one can do to verify membership, is to do a search of the whole site on the member name, to see if there have been any posts made by the member name in question. If there are posts, one can then see their Member Page via the link. If no posts are found, (or you might even want to do this 'first' after not getting the name to come up in the Member Search, is this. 1-bring up your Member Page...not your Trade Page. 2-Go up to the URL and delete just 'your' name off of the end of the URL 3-fill in the member name in question 4-enter! Bingo...it will either come up, or it will say something like...sorry, this person does not exist. If the Member Page 'does' come up, or you find they are a member by finding a post of theirs, I ask that you use the Contact US link found at the bottom of any page here, and report it to GW. Report it as a technical problem in the choices in the drop down box menu. Then state that member "so and so" is not found via a Member Search. They will then get that member fixed. I suggest doing this to 'help' the member out, because until it is discovered and reported, it 'will not' get fixed. This has been a problem for some time now, so I am assuming it might be like the tech team trying to find a needle in a haystack. Who knows?...just my guess since it has been going on for a while. What I would suggest you do, is send her a link to This thread addressing newbie and newer member issues. Explain that she really needs to first get her Member Page email link set up. Ask that she read on down in that thread, and it will address the many posts at the Seed Exchange where generous members with 'excess' seeds have offered them up for postage. Tell her it explains what threads to look for...Free, newbie, sasbe/BEAP., etc. It is very good that you did 1, 2, and 3 above. You are a newbie who really has it going on!...does anyone say that any more?...lol Sue

Ok...here is another heads up. I emailed tamara at her gwtamara email addy on littleonefb's (Frans) behalf and asked that she reply to both me and Fran about what might be going on. Here is her reply: I'm not sure why this is still happening, but our tech team is working on isolating the problem. At this point, all I can do is just unblock you when it happens. I know it's frustrating and I hope they are able to resolve it shortly. Fran, I didn't receive any mail from you to this address -- but, I"m regularly checking the blocks and if your name is there, I'll just automatically unblock it. Thanks for hanging in there. Tamara Soooo...in conclusion...good to know that they are working on it. good to know that Tamara is checking the 'blocked members' and will automatically unblock it if/when it happens again not so good to know...gwtamara did not get Frans emails.hmmm So where might they have gone. Also keep checking if you may have been unblocked, because as west_texas_peg said, she did not receive notification that she should be back up and running. Suggestion...like I said above, first email gwtamara, and if the block is not unblocked in what you consider a reasonable amount of time, then email a GW friend (hopefully you will have/know/be able to locate a member friend's addy) and ask that they email gwtamara on your behalf. Since I am the proclaimed resident busy body here, anyone can feel free to email me and have me try and email/report it again on your behalf....if all else seems to have failed. Sue...rbb...off to finally get busy on something here at home

If you see the member's name appearing on any thread click on the alias (My Page) next to the "Posted by". A page will appear with a link to sending that member an e-mail. Or, you could go to the bottom of the Forum homepage and select Member Services. An appearing entry will provide you a portal to a member search by alias. Once located you can click on it, and it will redirect you to the same page as above. DA

Buehl, please do! I was just trying to save something of use. I'd been checking the GW all night, turned my back for 15 minutes to watch the Health Care vote, and whammo! all the posts were gone. I kept refreshing, thinking, "This can't be!"