Michael Cash and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:

>On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 18:27:44 +0900, The 2-Belo
><the2belo@removethiswave-net.or.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on
>going with:
>
>>I realize I'm being a bit hypocritical, since I haven't touched mine either,
>>but... are you making any plans within the next geological epoch to update your
>>web site?
>
>Yeah. I actually selected a dozen or so pictures to make a new album
>with....about six months ago. I'm about two dozen books behind on book
>blurbs. But that ain't no big deal since they're not doing anybody the
>least bit of good anyway. And anything that I ever have to say, I just
>say it here instead of making a web page out of it.
>
>Actually, I obtained a domain name and 5gb of web space, planning to
>completely rework the site to take advantage of (rather basic)
>features my ISP freebie doesn't provide. Shit like shtml, for example.
>Having taken down the site with all the Japanese golden oldies, I was
>looking for something to take its place. My idea was to collect
>specimens of Japanese advertising. Television, print, radio, whatever.
>I figured it would be interesting to people who have never lived here
>and might even be useful to people studying Japanese. And there's far
>less chance of a gang of lawyers coming after me.
>
>But the web host I got the service from *and* registered the domain
>name with turned out to be some fraudulent motherfuckers. How
>fraudulent? The head of the gang is currently in federal prison for
>credit card fraud. Wanna guess on who? His customers! Naturally, this
>has had shit all screwed up. I paid for a year's service and got
>almost ZERO. The domain name is registered through those bastards, so
>God only knows how I go about getting control of it again. I have no
>intention of re-paying for space somewhere else. Not until next
>year...maybe. I'll probably end up having to let the domain name lapse
>and then re-register it. It's all fucked up right now.
>
>As you can see, having had plans to completely revamp the thing under
>a different name and on a server with 5gb instead of 10mb, I haven't
>been all that keen to put a lot of work into minor changes/additions
>to the thing as it currently exists.

Sheesh. I think next time you ought to at least go with a major ISP, or someone
who won't cheat you like... like ME! YEAH, THAT'S IT! PAY FOR MY FIXED IP, D00D,
and YOU GOT ALL THE SPACE YOU WANT!


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