i apologize ,the confirmation mail was in the spam folder, everything is fine now thanks Damien
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 6:46 PM John Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m sorry to hear that! Several things to check/try > > 1) I see the confirmation email coming from “[email protected]”, > with subject line "[Racket Discussions] Confirm your new account” > > Maybe it’s in your junk folder? > > 2) You can always ignore the given url and just go to > racket.discourse.group and sign up manually, perhaps that will work. > > Let me know if I can help any further, I do know that people have signed > up using gmail accounts. > > John > > > On Nov 23, 2021, at 12:25, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > if i create an account following the link at the end of this message , i > never get verification email at my google address i specified. > > > > On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 7:09:21 PM UTC+1 johnbclements wrote: > > TL;DR: Go to > > > > https://racket.discourse.group/invites/okLTSrQw1T > > > > and sign up for Racket Discourse (https://racket.discourse.group/) > > > > # Thoughts behind the move: > > > > Over time, it has become steadily more apparent that email-only > > mailing lists are an outdated communication medium for the Racket > > community. More recent arrivals in our community have generally > > chosen other platforms like slack or discord to carry on discussions. > > As a result, the signal-to-noise ratio of the racket users mailing list > > has dropped below the level of viability. > > > > In short, it’s time to give up on the mailing list. > > > > After a good deal of research, it looks like there’s room for a whole > > bunch of discussion platforms for Racket, but it also seems as though > > there should be a “permanent” one; it should be archived, it should be > > searchable in its entirety, and it should not tie us to someone else’s > > plan to monetize user data. > > > > Given these criteria, the winner is Discourse, an open-source > > messaging platform built by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam > > Saffron. It has a reasonable business model (they host projects like > > ours unless they get really big, whereupon you can either host it > > yourself or pay them to do it); it’s widely used by other language > > communities; and it appears to do most of what we want. > > > > # So where can I sign up? > > > > Sign up here: https://racket.discourse.group/invites/okLTSrQw1T > > > > The discourse platform has been in a “soft opening” phase for about > > two weeks now, since RacketCon, and we have about a hundred users. > > You’re receiving this message because we’d like to have *YOU* there > > as well. > > > > # Can I still receive messages like a mailing list? > > > > Yes, you can. I have it enabled myself! > > To use discord as a mailing-list: > > Sign up, go to Preferences > Email, and tick “Enable mailing list mode'. > > > > Yours, > > > > John Clements & Stephen De Gabrielle > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Racket Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/a1cc04f5-25f6-4d0e-aeda-a656c18e5604n%40googlegroups.com > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CADEOadd%2BFw6TBk-Pq51V46zZyFDdikU2xVkU%3D519zfWZNXc-_Q%40mail.gmail.com.
