In article , Greg O
wrote:

I don't think Larry's response was inappropriate.
Your assumption of how everyone else sees the 'net was the funny part!
Rarely do people completely change the header of a post, respond to it, and
delete ALL the original post, then expect people to understand what was
going on!

And, of course, the correct public response to a spammer is none.

They are either looking for a response (more troolish behaviour, but
still) in which case the correct response is to deny them, or they are
trully spamming, in which case there's no way in hell they're going to
see the outraged response and it's not only a waste of time but makes
the outraged one look like an idiot.

In thiscase, given that the same spam is showing up in every newsgroup
I visit, it's most certainly the latter.

The Standard Advice: Ignore, fliter.