Re: how to add "members" to a forum

Posted by Simon Large on Sep 23, 2010; 10:42am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/how-to-add-members-to-a-forum-tp5558703p5562499.html

I believe users have to register themselves, as they have to choose both their username and password. Once they have done that, then you can promote them to member status.

Options->Users->Manage Subscribers->Add Subscribers allows you to send an invitation, but the addressee still has to click on a link to confirm (otherwise spammers could sign anyone up to their mailing lists without consent). I suspect, though, that this only subscribes that person as an unregistered user.

Sadly when I tried this myself I got an Error 500 returned so there is some problem in that part of the system.

Simon