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Okay. Thanks sir 
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I am not in favor of deleting all the posts from a spammer and then posting a message here with just a link to the profile. I suppose it is acceptable on days were there is a army of spam accounts firing off their stuff, but it does not look like this is one of those days.
I happened to see 3 questions posted by this member in QA before they disappeared, so I know that this is a spam account, but without any proof of the spam, everyone else just have to take your word for it.
Update: I just noticed your icon/role (subeditor). I acknowledge, that does automatically add a lot of value when you report a member here as a spammer. Sorry.
Soren Madsen
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Well I did consider leaving them, but didn't want to give the spam any more search engine exposure than necessary. I wonder whether older revisions get indexed too, so that the links can be removed without deleting the entire message.
We really need a better system to deal with this recent torrent of spam.
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If you delete the posts, then there is nothing to show that they are doing anything wrong.
Instead, edit the post to disable any links (rendering it pretty useless for their purposes) and report it as spam / abuse as well as the author.
Then post links to both here so we can decide for ourselves.
Without the offending messages, we have no way to know that whoever posts the "this guy is a spammer" message doesn't just have a grudge against him. (That shouldn't be taken as "I assume you have a grudge...", just that there are people here who would).
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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OK, that makes sense (but I hope the older revisions are not indexed by search engines, that would make editing the messages useless)
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Depends - the older versions are a lot harder to get at for the searchbots than the main entry (and clearly outdated), so if we can get to the message before the bot does, all his effort is in vain! 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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There're a few more on QA and in the lounge. I trimmed the QA mess back to a single post/account to serve as flagging targets; no need to keep more of mess around than that even temporarily.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Right, thank you.
The original post is needed to let people see it and report on the member account instead of the post itself. If three reports for spamming comes from the members of sufficient reputation score, the offending account is automatically disabled.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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