About half of the membership requests we're receiving now don't have
the survey completed. I can't understand this - unless something's not
working there's a very clear message that you need to complete the
survey. For these people I have manually been sending them an email
with the "please fill in the survey" message (http://groups.google.com/
group/adf-methodology/web/pending-member---survey-required-email-
template)... but they still don't seem to. Therefore I assume that
they either can't read or don't want to fill in the simple survey.

Therefore if you have applied to join the group and haven't been
granted membership it is becuase you haven't filled in the survey (or
else I haven't been able to tie up your survey name from a cryptic
email address). From now on I don't think I'm going to waste time
sending out email reminders - please complete the survey before/when
you request membership.