[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 02/01/2011, at 10:40 PM, Roland Perry wrote:

> 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).

Yes, that's why.  You'll need to wait for confirmation of your registration before you can log in.  This may take 24 hours or so, since it has to be done manually.

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