Messages/iMessages - reporting spam

Why is it so ridiculously difficult to report spam in iMessage/Messages? Lately, I've been getting more and more spam on iMessage/Messages and would like to report them to Apple (in the hope that Apple actually does more with such spam reports than they apparently do with map error reports :-( Alas, I have found no easy way to do so. Google'ing, it seems that the "official" way is to send an e-mail to Apple's spam-reporting email (which I already forgot) with a screenshot of the offending spam as well as the email address from whence it came.
If someone had asked me to devise the least user-friendly way of reporting SPAM - that would probably what I would have come up with :-(
Is there an easier way that I'm just missing? You know, like right-click on the message and click "Report SPAM..." or something that.
I love iMessage. I hope Apple stays ahead of the curve on the rising tide of SPAM that is beginning to hit this service.
If nobody knows of an alternative reporting mechanism, I will use my 'massive' influence with Apple and provide feedback...if I can find the URL :-)
[on that note: how come Mail has "Provide Feedback..." right in the application, but Messages and others do not - does the Mail team just care more?]

Hi,
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5821
As you say:-
To report unwanted iMessage messages to Apple, please send an email with the following details to: [email protected]
Include a screenshot of the message you have received.
Include the full email address or phone number you received the unwanted message from.
Include the date and time that you received the message.
iChat has it's own Page
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ichat.html
The Mail app does not http://www.apple.com/feedback/ (Scroll down to Apps)
It fair to say that some of this stuff is historical about Apple set up feedback for each app.
Many menu items continue to do the same job they always did.
There are several in the Messages > View Menu that apply to Buddy Lists, which by default are not on show.
I still use the iChat Feedback page and Message is built on the iChat engine.
The page has never been brilliant at keeping up with the iChat versions (the OS versions got added to a List to get updated on new releases and that now works but took me four years of badgering the Hosts to pass it on).
It would also be worth noting if they are SMS messages rather than iMessages.
It will be easier to tell on the iPhone as this colours the messages based on iMessages or SMS.
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(I'm cross-posting this from here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2677169#2677169)
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At this message I'm going to reply your last two replies.
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