@ben We don't have a true emergency with spammers signing-up on a given instance. Approval-only registrations mode is a good tool for weeding those out. The problem we are experiencing is the spammer signing up on random open instances and sending spam remotely. Therefore, solutions based on IPs or captchas are not appropriate. Even if we release the perfect protection against local spammers, servers that haven't upgraded will continue to make this a problem.