<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">My applications to join were similar. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I applied and was told nope the first time. I seem to remember that when I tried again it asked for my callsign and again I was rejected. Then it was "third time lucky".</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>With respect to UI-View registration -- mine took less than 30 minutes between mailing and getting it sorted. But that was when Roger was alive (and at about the same time I first tried to join this list with all its hassle factor).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Regards</DIV><DIV>Andy, G8TQH</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.rickham.net">http://www.rickham.net</A>/<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 6 Apr 2006, at 18:02, <A href="mailto:aprssig-request@lists.tapr.org">aprssig-request@lists.tapr.org</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Message: 8</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:53:28 -0500</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">From: "John Habbinga" <<A href="mailto:kc5zrq@gmail.com">kc5zrq@gmail.com</A>></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Subject: Re: [aprssig] Re: [ui-view] (fwd) Poll results for ui-view</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <<A href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</A>></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Message-ID:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><<A href="mailto:5472e42d0604051253n52c019e0i2bd66641bd3d59a9@mail.gmail.com">5472e42d0604051253n52c019e0i2bd66641bd3d59a9@mail.gmail.com</A>></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">A couple of years ago I tried to subscribe and I got a message back that I</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">was not accepted.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It pissed me off.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>However, I kept reading posts on other</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">lists about things mentioned in aprssig, so I tried again a few months later</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">and it accepted me without problem.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>