MNHQ If you receive a message in your inbox which was to you when you were another posting name....

[MassiveKnob]

how do you reply without giving away your new name?

Would my reply automatically go in my present name? Do I have to change back in order to reply?

Only, to explain, I received a message from a poster who had picked up on a thread from sometime back. I could only just remember being on the thread, so when i looked it up, i was under a different name. So if I reply, she will wonder who the hell i am if it comes up as massiveknob.

It is certainly a way to catch someone out if you think they are someone else. [They could reply before even thinking.

If you reply then the message will be from the name she sent it to. So, if you were TinyKnob on that thread then that'd be the name on your reply to the PM.

oooooh matron!!! I would never have been TinyKnob .

But thanks for that.

For the record it was nothing controversial or remotely exciting.

MNHQ - TBH it'd be really handy if this was explained somewhere in the PM bit. There's no end of confusion about it and people worrying about outing themselves via PM. 'tis a shame after all the though MNHQ put into having it back up the name change anonymity...

It's worth remembering, also, that if you send a new PM to them, it'll come from whichever nickname you currently have.

oh i see, so i just need to press reply or whatever and it will go back in my old name.

yup, thta's right. But, as adam says, if you send her a new PM instead of pressing reply it'll be in your current name.