Request a membership by sending me an email!

[TorbenGB]

UPDATE 2015-11-04: New user registration is allowed again (details here). Please ignore the below.
I'm just keeping it global for some time yet to make sure new users know where to ask for assistance.

TL;DR: Request a membership by sending email to torben@g-b.dk.

Explanation:
Due to excessive amounts of spam registrations, I've had to turn off the regular registration process. This pains me because I know that this blocks the few real people we really want to welcome into the community. I'm not happy about this situation and I've been searching for workable solutions. I want to allow real registrations but I also want to avoid spammers. The problem is, for every 1 real user there are about 2000 spammers - I'm not kidding. So it's not a task that I can handle manually, and the automated options simply don't cut it:

• Yeah, the registrations can be protected by Captcha (and they are) but it doesn't do enough to keep away the spammers.
• I can also require that the applicant confirms his sign-up by email. Doesn't help.
• The approval emails could also be sent to me instead, but I get flooded by spam registrations.

I've basically run out of options. If anybody has workable suggestions, I'd be delighted to hear them!