I'm trying to send message to other member to invite him to join my team. I'm using the private messages for the first time, but each time I enter his user name or his ID and click out side the text box it will just turn to blank. So I'm sending messages to blank recipients!!!! I have also noticed if I put my name or my id in the recipient text box it will change accept it. Am I missing something here?

To which ID are you trying to send a PM and which user should that be according to you.

I'm trying to PM the user(Lujain) who's userid (2686644). But I have noticed something, for some user if you typed the user name it will automatically fill-in the userid and vice versa!!!! for example if you typed the username (pandazoo) the userid will be autocompleted and you are able to send him a message, and you can also type his userid (12345) and it will auto complete the username automatically!!!!! I feel that the system is not allowing me to send PM for certain users?! can that be? is there any option these users needs to enable?

I don't think Lujain has an account here, s/he just crunches SETI. You probably will have to contact him/her over there.

The stats-id is not the same as a BAM!-id. Your BAM! id is on the left of this post with the user info. The stats-id can be found at the detailed stats page of a user. Not all BOINC users create an account on this site. If they do not create an account here, you can't send them a PM.