[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Roland Perry]

In message <E61F032C-9A08-431D-A3AA-2372C3442EEB at ciroap.org>, at 
19:01:01 on Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> writes
>When registering, please use the same email address with which you are 
>subscribed to the governance list.  This is important because it will 
>enable me to flag you as an official IGC member (ie. one who voted in 
>the last coordinator elections), if indeed you are one.  (If not, 
>please register anyway - especially if you intend to vote at the next 
>coordinator elections.)

Having registered and validated (an extra step not mentioned above) it 
then says the account has to be "authorised". Which is perhaps why...

>Visiting the page above is also the way, from now on, to subscribe to 
>or unsubscribe from the governance mailing list.  (Unfortunately due to 
>software limitations, your password for the mailing list Web site won't 
>be automatically set to the one you choose when creating your database 
>entry - you'll need to set it again when logging in there, or use any 
>password you may have had there before.)

... when it goes on to ask for a username and password, it doesn't 
recognise either my username or email address (and, of course, I have no 
password, or if I did it was forgotten years ago).

[This report sent to the list, in case others are puzzling over the same 
issue].
-- 
Roland Perry
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