Anatomy of a human spam-collective

It was an ordinary evening until the following sequence of emails:

• 5 pm: Mail sent to all lists of a certain kind (reaching about 300 inboxes) announcing a programme (and a note on its history)
• 6:10 pm: Reply from someone objecting to certain interpretations of the history
• 6:15 pm: Same reply from someone objecting to certain interpretations of the history again
• 6:20 pm: Third copy of reply from someone objecting to certain interpretations of the history
• 7:10 pm: Response from originator of thread rebutting these objections
• 7:30 pm: Response from objector apologising for inadvertent triple sundae special earlier, but sticking to guns on version of history
• 8:05 pm: First mumblings of anger from person unconnected to the whole controversy asking above people to shut up
• 8:35 pm: Another reply condemning in no uncertain terms the washing in open of laundry
• 9:40 pm: First meta-spam condemnation asking spam-objectors to stop objecting so publicly
• 9:50 pm: Concurrence from another meta-spam object displeased at the modern tendency of people to first spam and of others to spam-spam
• 10:05 pm: Super-spam objector airdashes into fray and in no uncertain terms asks people to take a hike and stop (no points for guessing) sending unsolicited email to all
• 10:10 pm: First rat to desert ship: "please remove my email id/alias from this discussion" email
• 10:25 pm: "please remove my email id/alias from this discussion too" email
• 10:45 pm: "While you are at, why not remove mine too?" reply
• 11:05 pm: "Please please stop all this nonsense immediately" email
• 11:10 pm: The "yeah, I agree too" mail (in reality, didn't come).
  All times have been changed to protect temporal identity

  How I would like to see them hung upside down with cans of this preparation stuffed down (up?) their throats and end to end.

  [The "that's why I'm a misanthrope" collection]