[Brian]

We'll generally clean up spam posts once we discover them; it's always helpful when folks use the "Report Spam" button to give us a heads-up about ones they find.

Responding to a spam post, though, bumps the thread to the top of the 'updated recently' list, and makes it more likely that other visitors will see the spam. If the spam link is quoted in the reply, that's another place we'll need to find and clean up their link spam.

(Depending on the forum style you have active, the report post button either looks like a "Kick Me" sign, or a red triangle.)