I'm working for a client who decided that only members of their organisation should be able to register and use the boards. So they introduced a new field where anyone registering must enter their membership number, which could then be checked by admins in a registration queue.
But they decided that to impose this, they would first delete all members and then ask them to re-register, this forcing everyone to enter their membership number. Because the old member profiles have been hidden and not removed (so that previous posts can be maintained), no one can now re-register their old account ... if they could then anyone could register with someone else's account etc etc.
How do I restore all the removed members? All the data files seem to be there in the members folder still, but I can't figure out what's 'hiding' them from the system. They're not mentioned in 'used_name_list.cgi' .. I thought I'd struck gold when I saw that filename!
If anyone could help with this I'd be very grateful.
Matt
