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[Peter Farmer<address@concealed>]

SYMPAthisers,

What is the intended lifespan of the inital password sent to new accounts ?
Can a user just continue to use it or are they required to change it within a
given period of time (as a confirmation of the email address ?)

After account creation it seems to be valid for general use of the account
including posting. But an entry  does not appear in the users database table
for the account until its password is changed. 
And more significanty the account seems to disappear (expire ?) after a couple
of days if I dont subscribe to a list straight away !
So from the observed behaviour , I am presuming users are required to update
their password to complete the opt-in process ? 
If this is so, the user interface needs to make it clearer to the subscriber
that they MUST reset their password after creating the account .

The documentation appears not to be helpful regarding this process ...

thanks for any help on this ...

Peter Farmer