Bizarre spam

[simpo two]

I'm trialling Mailwasher Pro and it's quite nice to be able to keep the crud out of my Inbox (seems pretty good at spotting viruses too).

I just had an e-mail saying: 'Are you a spammer? I found your e-mail address on a spam website'.

I hope this is just an attempt to provoke me to reply; needless to say it got the bounce/delete/blacklist treatment.

Anyone else had one of these?

[pdV6]

In a similar vein, I recently received the following email:

some berk said:

To: Pete Subject: Eliminate Spam Forever with Zaep Dear Pete, You are getting this message because you downloaded software from RhinoSoft.com. If you do not want to receive any more messages, please see the last paragraph of this message. Do not reply to this message, instead please visit: www.Zaep.com/sales ------------------------------------------- Zaep 2.0 RELEASED! ------------------------------------------- I'm very pleased to announce the release of Zaep. I wrote Zaep because I've finally had enough spam! Spam has been so disruptive for me personally and for our entire staff. Recently, the spammers have become smarter, getting around our mail server's spam filtering. The number of messages the filters started missing and getting wrong was just too high. ...

It went on a bit after that.

I wonder if the beautiful irony of this message was deliberate?