Mr R, next time instead of responding to said spammer, it’d be appreciated if you just clicked on the “Report” link at the top of his comment. That way, a moderator can come along and clean it up as soon as they can.
Especially since many spammers will click the ‘notify me of replies’ box, so responding to them means they now know their spambot was successful, so our little forum gets put in the ‘active’ list, and we get even more spam…