In reply to Alan James - Rockfax:
Looking at my archived threads, it looks like BrianT had ID=1, Al Downie was 3. Daniela was 10. I bet I could write a simple script to pull out user names and IDs...
My first post was on 31/05/01, and I wasn't registered. On that thread, there are users with larger IDs than mine, even though I didn't register until July. I wonder if the profiles were somehow retrospectively added when I saved the threads much later...
I recall registration was a hotly disputed topic, but introduced to stop spamming.
[edit] ah, the second round of registration now rings a bell...
Post edited at 13:59