[governance] New membership database: choose your own username

[Roland Perry]

In message <6BE339B3-5FEF-47F4-813D-B4EFDE66F1EC at ciroap.org>, at 
16:43:34 on Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> 
remarked:
>>> 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).

There should be no need to "join on a web page too".

Are you saying that having "joined" the list by email, they can 
immediately and without any further ado lurk (ie receive mail from the 
list); but if they want to post, they have to do more than confirm their 
registration by email?
-- 
Roland Perry
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