Hi, You Don't Know Me, But ...

The email that appeared in my Inbox goes kinda like this: "Hello _____, Congratulations on the website, it is very nice! I'm not too involved here yet, but I would like to work on your website and keep it updated. I have 2 years experience as a webmaster among other skills. Give me a call and I'll stop in to see how I can help." The email wasn't spam, I know that because it had a lot of specific information about the company, stuff that wasn't on the website, but that I did know about. See, my not-so-tricky, tricky-trick, is that the contact form for the website currently directs to me, not the owner of the company. This is standard procedure for me when a site is still in the development phases. So I proceed to reply (without using my real name) with something such as: "Hi, I'm not sure I fully understand the reason for your email, could you please elaborate? Thank you for the compliments on the website." And of course a reply comes and blah blah blah blah "I want to help with the website, I have one year of experience with FrontPage (one year experience with FrontPage, but two years experience as a webmaster? huh... weird), blah blah blah something about how the goals for the website are all about creating a great first impression and to serve as an effective communication tool" and it goes on and on. So finally I write back saying something like (modified slightly): "You have mistakenly reached the company in charge of the design and development for the website, not the actual client. So it's going to go down like this: We are going to finish the website that we started, and if and when you want to be a part of the process with your one year of experience with FrontPage, you have to wait until we are done with it (you know, before you get in there with your code-mangling FrontPage boo-blickity editor and mess up all of my pretty HTML.)". The email that came back kinda went like this: "If you had used your name in the previous email I would have known that you weren't the owner of the company (my goal exactly), but don't worry about me, I already have a full time job and I don't have any time or interest in doing any serious website maintenance." I thought that was the intention of the original email ... To work on the website? All I said is wait until we're done with it, then you can break it. He did sound a little heated that I "pretended" to be the owner of the company. I guess omitting my name from the email is cause to accuse me for trying to pretend I'm the owner of the company. I mean, that's exactly what I did, in a more implicit manner of course, but don't accuse me of it. Arghh, this post is getting to be too long, you get the idea. If you're as confused as I am, raise your hand ... good, now put it down before the teacher calls on you.