That's great. He wasn't addressing you.
He said, as has been quoted several times now, "Anybody who RESPONDED TO THIS POST {the spam}... is participating in a flood of another newsgroup."
It has *nothing* to do with the original topic at hand, nor the original post. The subject line and references header were used to tack it onto an existing thread. People are falling for it left and right, replying to these inflammatory messages -- those replies are being dumped into news.admin.net-abuse.email because people don't notice the follow-up header. That's the whole point.
No, it wasn't. That's why you're missing the point - he wasn't talking to you, or anyone else involved in the original discussion about wireless routers. He was talking to people who REPLIED TO THE SPAM, and are helping to flood news.admin.net-abuse.email without realizing it. That group is getting nearly 1000 messages a day because of this. It's a real problem.
Glad to hear it. I'd suggest researching how References: and Follow-up-to: headers work, because you're not grasping what's going on here.
From your reply to Norman:
The original post is *irrelevant* -- that's what I'm trying to get across to you. A follow-up can be set for *any* message. It doesn't have anything to do with the original post at all.
Once again, YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT ENTIRELY. He's *not* accusing everyone who participated in the actual thread of anything.. He's addressing people WHO REPLIED TO THE DEAD BABY RECIPES -- the spam -- which DO have the follow-up-to header set to the admin group. That's why he *referred* and *quoted the *spam* message.
I don't mean to be curt, but *you* are the one who started in and demanded an apology when you're clearly not understanding what's going on.