This is exactly the same weird response that the first generation of email and usenet spammers gave me when I complained to them (they hadn't learned to forge "

This is exactly the same weird response that the first generation of email and usenet spammers gave me when I complained to them (they hadn't learned to forge "From:" addresses at first) directly: shut up or we'll spam you even more. There must be some psychopathy that you have to have to start spamming, or that you develop after spamming. The responses are illogical in the same way every time. Spammers need to be tried, found guilty, and punished.