They're testing the email address - if they don't get a bounce-back, you get added to the spammers' lists. Check the spam filter settings on your mail client - you should have a setting to mark it as spam and if your spam filter's any cop, an option to bounce it back as if your mail address doesn't exist. As these things are largely generated by automated tools that check for bounce-backs to refine the per-domain lists, a half-decent "bounce-back spam" option will usually fool them.
Alternately, find out where the originating spam-harvesters live and burn down their village.
Either's good
why dont they just say hello then instead of writing all that bollocks :roll: