Gary Woods wrote:
Ted Byers wrote:

Next time, bite only the plants

This person has trolled a number of newsgroups, posting appropriately silly
things to elicit responses. It seems to have worked...

For folks using Google groups - Has the "Report Abuse" button
ever resulted in anything but a fom letter from Google for
you?

When it first appeared I hoped that if enough people called
a post spam it would be deleted from the archive but I have
yet to see any spam post disappear. When it first appeared
I hoped they would at least pull the accounts of gmail
users who got enough complaints but I have yet to see any
gmail poster go away. When it first appeared I hoped there
would be some sort of form-letter process to trace an
author back to their original ISP to complain to the right
place but that's never happened either.

Even if all Google ever does with the complaints is to
tabulate them for informational purposes it would be worth
doing.