[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 04/01/2011, at 4:34 PM, Roland Perry wrote:

>> Surely they will just visit the list's Web page.
> 
> It's an EMAIL list.
> 
> If the community prefers a web forum (I wouldn't, but others may disagree), then by all means have that; but this is a list about Internet Governance and there are accepted ways to govern a mailing list, which should not be changed lightly.

As a compromise, I have re-enabled the old interface for subscriptions (including by email), but made it subject to confirmation, so that I can alert them to the need to join on the Web page too (unless they intend to purely lurk).

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