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Yes, that's a good thought, and one that I have been considering. One issue is that if a member drops out, then rejoins at some later time, we re-assign the original member number. As long as we can overwrite the auto-assigned number that might not be a problem. This particular problem will become less and less important as, these days, when a member drops out we simply remove them from the Members groups in Xoops. If they rejoin, we just activate that members group. That way their old number is retained.

I'll play with auto-incrementing on my test site. Thanks.,

Barry