Are there any good drugs for... Anger Management?
In my original post Setting the Record Straight and my followup post The Japan Page has Erectile Dysfunction I posted an e.mail exchange with Shanon Fernwald, the owner of www.japanpage.org. This was formerly my home page that I allowed to lapse, and which she now owns.
My original post was merely a critique on the sad state of the Internet in general, when an exceptionally low traffic site like my former homepage is turned into a content-sparse landing page most prominently featuring advertisements for drugs to treat your erectile dysfunction, among other conditions.
Well, stoopid my I went and check my Junk E-mail folder in Outlook, only to find another e.mail from Shanon. I do have to give Microsoft credit here for correctly identifying this as Junk.
I've decided not to reply back to Shanon, after reading the e.mail below you'll understand why... too bad none of those drugs are for anger management. :-)
Note: Shanon uses some really gosh darn bad words, and apparently doesn't use a spell checker either.
From: Shanon Fernald [mailto:sfernald@gmail.com]
Sent: Tue 10/3/2006 10:55 AM
To: John Seaman (japan-page.net)
Subject: Re: hey
Wow, you are a real prick ain't ya, Semen. You should get out of that depressing place before you feel like you need to commit suicide. From what I can see by your comments, I don't think that is far off. The world ain't all fucking roses, so get over it. You will get spam in your inbox, fucking countries will blow up innocents to protect their interests (cashola), people will be murdered in the name of religion, god is dead and doesn't give a shit, and you my friend will continue to take your little snapshots through your rose-colored camera. But you know what, nobody gives a shit about you or your blog. Your art is insipid and you think you're smart but really you're about as wise as a pig on slaughter day. I don't really give a shit about your site and don't know why you are obsesed with mine. By the way, japanvisitor.com has no problem with my site, so deal with it and get over it or do whatever you need to do to move on with your insignificant life.
So to recap: she bought my former home page for $35 from a Romanian developer as a "cyber investment", presumably she gets income from referral clicks on the drug adverts. There's not much content on the site, just enough to get indexed by search engines, and she promised she has no intentions of ever updating it.
Despite the accusations otherwise, I have nothing against Internet commerce and I even put up Google Ad-Sense adverts on my site. My intention being to offset my hosting costs, so far though the host is winning.
I do think that lame-o, content free landing pages that push questionable drugs are a waste of perfectly good 0's and 1's. But that's the joy of laissez-faire on the Internet. Shanon however, appears to have an anger problem. So, I will state for a record that in this flame war, I am tipping my hat and saying "have a nice day". Then I'm posting this for the whole world to ignore, on my blog. :-)

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