to send silly reply to emotionally abusive ex?

[vezzie]

On the "most arrogant things said by a partner" thread, I shared the nugget, "Foremost in your mind should be my convenience". This was typical of his sort of Harold-Bishop-crossed-with-Buffyesque-monster-of-darkness style.
Anyway my webmail recently got hacked and sent spam to my whole address book - Get your penis enlarged, Buy viagra, What about some lovely pornography sir?, that sort of thing. I haven't spoken to my ex for at least a couple of years but he is still in my address book and replied to the (obviously spam) email (which everyone else I know had just deleted) with this:

"What is this?"

No hello, no how are you, no I hear you have had a baby! Just: "what is this?" which I cannot help but read in a "What Is The Meaning Of This?" tone and laugh at the stupid pomposity of the man, who took FOUR DAYS to compose this epic work of charm and eloquence.

So! What should I reply?

don't reply but lol @ Harold-Bishop-crossed-with-Buffyesque-monster-of-darkness style.

It is a spam email. The penis enlargement will, however, undoubtedly be of interest to you.

Don't reply - that will drive him more nuts than any response you could ever write to him.

you should reply
"Foremost in my mind was your convenience"

what is this? well its for you of course!

I am BEGGING you to use GDYWF's suggestion.

Please...

GDYWF - LOL! (literally - I never usually say LOL but this time I did)

I too would be extremely tempted to use GetDownYouwillfall's suggestion but don't do it. Don't engage in communication with him.

agree aSilver and Pancake - don't reply. To be so inconsequential as to be unworthy of a response will be awful to such an ego.

OK - I deleted the email. No reply.
It feels great!
I have just thought: he lives online, so there is no way he took 4 days to read the email. He definitely thought about it, certainly realised what it was straight away, decided to use it as an excuse to approach me, spent 4 days thinking about all this and then...
Nothing. Ha!

Thank you, oh wise mumsnetters. I feel... de-cluttered.

still think you should have used mine

No, you're probably right. This way he will be checking his emails for weeks anticipating your reply, and getting a big fat wodge of pure indifference ...