• You have applied (registered) to our group only once, on May 5th.
• I have written to the e-mail address that you gave in your application three times.  The first time was the day you applied, the second was on the 10th, and the most recent was this morning.
• As soon as you reply to the first e-mail that I sent to you, I will be happy to get you started here.  You will know that you are here when you receive the approval e-mail that I send to you, as well as the automatically-generated message that MSN sends.
• If you have not received any of the e-mails that I have sent to you, it could be two things.  First, please check your bulk mail and spam boxes in your e-mail account.  If you have an 'acceptable sender' setting on that account, our messages to you may be diverted to one of those boxes.  Second, you may have mistyped your e-mail address when you applied to join our group.  In that case, there isn't any way for us to contact you and verify that your account is valid.  If you have checked your e-mail account, and there are not any of our three messages to you, it is likely to be this second option, and you might want to try to apply for membership again.  I do not re-type the e-mail address, but copy and paste it from your application, into our outgoing e-mail to you.  That way I cannot do any mistyping myself.

If you are not d***b, you might be one of the other people who have applied, but have not responded to our messages to you.  If you are one of those other people, please follow the information listed above.

Whatever the circumstances, write back soon so that you can join in the fun here in our group.  Alright, it's not all that rockin a kind of place, but it is nice, nevertheless, and is chock full of really fabulous people who know exactly what you are experiencing with your SOM, and it just doesn't get much better than that!