I'm not 100% sure that they're all spam - but we've now had 180, and they're joining every half hour or so!
Some have got obvious email addresses such as pharmamedic@rambler.ru
A lot link to the types of site you'd expect spammers to link to.
Almost all of them have a gmail address or a .ru address
There's a message in the news bar asking genuine people to email Peter, so that we can approve them straight away. I've let two people in this week whose contact details looked convincing.