My whole original point is that a forum registration process does not by default give any contact method from would-be member to the administrator, should something go wrong in the process. People end up coming here to ask for help getting in. We should help forum admins and their members by making it easy to set up a way for the latter to contact the former to get help, as well as an estimate for how long it should take things to happen (e.g., it's admin approval, so don't start asking in 15 minutes). As part of forum installation, we guide admins in configuring this part of the registration process, so would-be members have a point of contact (whether it's a form or an email address). Admins can't forget to do this task. Preferably, this contact method should not be publicly exposed, so that mail spammers can't easily harvest the email or flood the admin with spam via a form. Obviously, there's nothing to keep some dip****** member from giving out an email address to spammers, but an email address could be quickly changed if the admin starts getting spam on it.