"Dave Balderstone" wrote in message
news:270420061959386105%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderst one.ca...

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.

My ISP tries to filter out spam, and did well with this one. All I saw was
the "village idiot" post!
I do agree though, I wish people would just ignore spammers and trolls too.
Greg