<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 04/01/2011, at 11:52 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Am I a lurker even though I subscribed to the list, please advise?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Along with everyone else who posts to the list, you are as good as a member for most purposes. The only things that you can't do are:</div><div><br></div><div>(a) Vote in the next coordinator election until you self-affirm membership at that time.</div><div>(b) Vote on any charter amendments between now and then, if you didn't vote in the last coordinator elections.</div><div><br></div><div>But you can still contribute to discussions and consensus-building on the list.</div><div><br></div><div>A difficult question that comes up in transitioning to a membership database is, do we have two entries in the database for those who are subscribed to the mailing list twice? I would answer no; although your multiple subscriptions remain intact, you should only fill in the membership form once.</div><div><br></div><div>But since the mailing list subscription form is now the same as the membership database form, this presents a problem for new members who wish to subscribe under multiple addresses: to them, I would just ask that they contact me for help (I'll add a note to this effect to the Web site).</div></div><div>
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