You're right about that - it really put me off as well as soon as I saw it.
It's been rather an uphill battle of late. Seems like it's SPAM season - I'm getting buried in SPAM e-mails as well. I remove them from the H/PC 2000 forum as soon as I see them - and it's no secret that I visit here frequently. I've been fortunate thus far as few of these SPAM threads have found their way into my forum. The site staff have been having a lot of conversations lately about how to deal with this; I expect there will be more discussion today.