There hasn't been a previous member with that username. However, you may have seen a notice that said that.
There was a time when people used the "@" when they registered. Often it was in their e-mail address. They later found it wasn't a good idea to have their email address as a user name because of the spam it caused them to receive.
In order to reduce this problem, with new registrations when people want to have '@' as part of their username they will receive an error message because it is no longer allowed as part of the username.
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