Spammers are always a problem for a small site like us, but since we're a very focused forum, I review all the new logins individually. Its pretty easy to get rid of most as I doubt many folks from Russia, Sweden, and Israel are chomping at the bit to play in our living campaign. So if you have a foreign addy, I'm gonna delete you out of hand.
Also I keep a list of every player who's ever sat at one of our tables, so if I don't recognize the name or the character, again, you're getting deleted. That, however, leads to the possibility that I could make a mistake. So if you don't get a response the day you try to get in, please feel free to email me, blackjackrackham67 (at) yahoo (dot) com with your request (oh and please tell me where we met/which games you played) so I can get you squared away.
Thanks
Mark.