Gareth Magennis wrote:



It was a spammer's attemt to get past Google's new reporting system.
Find a dead thread and reply to it, then change the subject line and
reply again. You can't find it to report it, without wading through all
the open threads.


I'm not really up to speed on these things, but of what benefit is this to
the Spammer?


If you can't find it, you can't flag it. This case was stupid,
because the thread was so old. To be effective, it needs to be in a
recent thread with no activity. That way, if someone reads that thread,
or post to it from any NNTP server, it will show up.