New registrants will be sent an email with a link in it that you have to click on to verify your email address.
If you do not receive this email, check your spam blocker or your ISP's spam blocker.
Once your account has been activated you will receive an email letting you know.
Before registering, I'd like to suggest reading the Forum Guidelines.
New members must login within 1 week or their account will be deleted.
If you login once and don't make a post and don't login again for 2 months, your account will be deleted.
If you only have 1 post within a 24 month period, your account will also be deleted.
This is for security reasons, and since registering is only necessary if you want to post something, I feel this isn't unreasonable.
New members' first post will have to be approved by an admin before it will show up in the forums.