It can’t do any harm so give it a try.
I do delete spam as soon as possible, I am checking frequently at the moment due to the amount of rubbish coming in.
However, users of the Forum may not be aware that I work from home. We have an active Community on our mobile home park which includes Craft events, Coffee Mornings, days out etc. If I am away from home for several hours, I cannot delete the spam as quickly as some users would wish (one email this week pointed out that the spam had been there for several hours). Ash sometimes deletes it in my absence.
All I can say is that between us we do our best to keep the site up and running but it’s a bit of a nightmare just now, please be patient with us and continue to send reminder emails.
I bet there is some more in already.