okay, so do acceptance notices say: in order to be granted access to the comms, you must first comment to the taken list and make an ac top level

or do they say something along the lines of

after acceptance, you must:
> comment to the taken list
> make an ac top level
> join the comms and as soon as you're accepted, you can start posting!

because those are very different messages and only one of them means what you're purporting