open account requests

[Mike McGrath]

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Nicu Buculei wrote:

> Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 May 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to have folks requesting access to a group to receive
> > > a
> > > mail with instructions on the requirements to join? And some other startup
> > > info (e.g., these are the mailing lists we work on, this is our wiki page,
> > > etc)
> > >
> >
> > There is a join message for each group but I think not many people use it
> > :-/
>
> How can one group customize this join message?
>
> I do the "mail instructions" part for the "art" group for quite a while (send
> an email, tell the requirements, invite to the mailing list) wait for two
> weeks and delete the unanswered requests.
> It would be easier for me to not have to send manually those emails.
>

The group admins can alter a field in the account system called "Join
Message"

	-Mike