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Apologies on my part.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Having re-read the </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" data-ogsc="" title="https://gitlab.isc.org/users/sign_in" class="OWAAutoLink elementToProof" id="OWA0617203e-c4e1-fb77-b2fb-28b71c2ab343" href="https://gitlab.isc.org/users/sign_in">https://gitlab.isc.org/users/sign_in</a> page
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">multiple times, I now realize that it might be inferring that "disabled temporarily" means no new accounts will be created, at all. Some of my confusion came from the following paragraph:</span></div>
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"<span style="font-weight: 600;">Accounts with no legitimate activity will be blocked after a day and deleted after a week.</span> You need to participate right away after you open the account. Open an issue, comment on issue, or enable 2fa to prevent your
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^ that paragraph inferred to me that account creation can still happen.</div>
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But - it seems to me now that it's not the case since this list isn't intended to be used for creating an account.</div>
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Feel free to abandon this thread, unless my above conclusions are incorrect.</div>
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Again, apologies for the confusion and misuse of the list.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> bind-users <bind-users-bounces@lists.isc.org> on behalf of Seth Lohr <seth.lohr@sonic.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 31, 2025 7:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> bind-users@lists.isc.org <bind-users@lists.isc.org><br>
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"Self-registrations have been disabled temporarily because of high amount of spam accounts. If you need to reach us during this period, please reach out to the
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The hyperlink for 'bind-users' is <a href="https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users">
https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users</a></div>
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If I missed documentation on <a href="https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users">
https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users</a> that specified something other than mailing this list, please let me know.</div>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> bind-users <bind-users-bounces@lists.isc.org> on behalf of Herbert J. Skuhra <herbert@gojira.at><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 31, 2025 7:31 AM<br>
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<div class="x_PlainText">On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:12:45 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer via bind-users <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 02:07:07PM +0000,<br>
> Seth Lohr <seth.lohr@sonic.com> wrote <br>
> a message of 68 lines which said:<br>
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> > According to directions on <a href="https://gitlab.isc.org/users/sign_in">https://gitlab.isc.org/users/sign_in</a><br>
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> > I reach out to this mailing list to create an account?<br>
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> IMHO, you should give details (as explained on the Web page you mention)...<br>
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Sorry, but why (ab)use the user list for this purpose?<br>
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