Hi Herb S.
What they tell me is:
"Your register request has been deferred."

"Ordinarily we require an appropriate institutional affiliation, so if
you are trying to register from a public access provider, please use instead
(for example) your university account.
If you are trying to register from an e-mail account with a research employer
that officially sponsors your work, then please send a message to
www-admin@arXiv.org with brief information on that employer
(including
a pointer to that employer's web pages).
If you have no suitable institutional affiliation, then please find someone
with such an affiliation to sponsor your activities.

In the event that you have received this message in error, please
send a message to www-admin@arXiv.org explaining the situation."


Like that's gonna happen.

Thank you.