I wish there was a way to get around it.  I guess I understand it's to keep the riff raffs out.  However, I joined because I needed to PM Slush that his new user registration is not sending out activation emails.  So I have to wait 4 hours and post a few nothings to do so.

I feel bad having to post fillers.  The first post was to ask if anyone can PM him for me to look into the issue though, so that wasn't much of a filler....