What should happen when you sign up to one of these rides?
You'll get an email from the ride leader nearer to the time. There's no automatic response.
This is because when you fill in the form your responses go on a Google Docs sheet. The ride leader takes the email addresses from that and emails everyone - you can then email back with questions etc. Email is the main way we keep in touch: not everyone is on every forum. I can check you're on the form, but I need to sign out of all Google accounts, sign in to that one, check, then sign out and back into the other ones I use more often.)
This question about having an email response is asked frequently, and we haven't worked out a way of sending an automated reply. Something along the lines of "thanks for your details, we'll get back to you nearer the time" would be enough but we don't know how to do that. Not sure if it can be done automatically. Some rides have almost 100 people, all have about 50, and asking a (London-based) ride leader to send an individual response to everyone, as well as riding a (York-to-Hull) recce, sorting out the halfway stop etc, is a bit much.