no, I will never drink through one again

I'm not sure how I feel about this, or about talking about it, but it's been on my mind and so I'm writing it. Please bear with me if the thoughts don't seem fully-formed; it's not really worked out in my head yet.

I guess I'm being stalked. It doesn't exactly feel that way, but I'm not sure what else to call it. There's a guy that I don't really know - a leftover from the OkCupid era, which has been over for quite a while now - who has been, despite my specific request to the contrary, contacting me frequently. The contact is irregular and occurs entirely by email. He has changed the address from which the messages originate, so I cannot simply block them. (That's how I started off dealing with him.) Now I have rerouted them to a folder in my email and they accumulate without my knowing they've arrived; I check periodically in hopes that they've stopped, but they keep coming.

The messages aren't threatening or even particularly strange. "Strange" is a scale that this guy has set before. I'm not sure how much I've mentioned him online, but here's some detail to flesh him out a bit: younger than me (of course), married (didn't know that right off), a few kids (2? 3? I don't remember or really care). Works in human resources in a food production company in the Western US. He'd led me to believe he was in a different state at one time, so...who knows, really, but when he called me - yes, that happened before I knew he was married! - the originating number was from the potato state. He may or may not be a member of a religion that I think is wackadoodle. In an effort to, um, impress me? I think? He sent a VERY MUCH UNDESIRED, NOT REQUESTED, & UNEXPECTED photograph of his, er, torso. Unclothed, except for a t-shirt (undershirt style) and white athletic socks. That photograph led to his current nickname (not just for me, but for others who have seen the picture: 'bendy straw'.
{{{shudder}}}I told him to stop writing and calling. He said that he would obey my wishes. And then he changed his mind, and started up again. I didn't respond. He continued. And continues still. The last messages (3) came on 6/5/09. To my recollection, we first communicated in early August, 2007 (it was just before my birthday and therefore memorable). We've [obviously?] never met. That's a long time to be weird like this, about somebody you've never met, who's told you to leave them alone.

So. That's the story. Now, what to do? Confront? Ignore? Change my email address? Further excoriate myself for ever having gone to OkCupid in the first place? Curl up in a ball & hide? Deny, deny, deny?

Blargh.