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Ah. I didn't know that. My bad...
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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Dear Sergy,
If the account is closed, when it will be activate again?
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That is my friend. He don't know tha is a spam question. so he just post answer to that question. There is is no chance to get account back?
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iam alredy posted in that location. but admin not reply to me.
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Sir, there is any chance to get his account back? Or it is permenantly deleted?
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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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