Ok, so we have an anti-spam add-on for this forum. Its been working pretty well.
So I now have a question for doom. Why is your IP address marked as a "definite spammer" in the anti-spam database?
Your email is perfectly clean, but that IP was red as hell. Thats the only reason you had to wait for activation.
Our anti-spam basically uses a forum-maintained database to check every applicant. If it has been marked as a spammer, it holds the names for our personal approval. Otherwise, if there is no record on that database, the user is subject to whatever measures we use. In this case, none, auto-activate.
So welcome to the forum doom, and try not to spam us.