To start with, Pariah, i respect your frustration with spam and unsolicited email, i myself receive hundreds of junk emails a day despite my best efforts at privacy. And as such, i have never, and will never send anyone unsolicited email or give, sell, trade, etc email lists that i have obtained through subscribers to my (long defunct) mailing list.

What happened a few years ago which in all likelihood explains your woes was that a form on my site used for receiving user feedback was hacked and used as a spring board for some scum bag spammer. The form was freeware, and i’d been using it for years but not being much of a coder i had never known it was a liability until the spamming occurred. That much i can take responsibility for.

Fortunately my host at the time put a stop to the spammer, and as you’ve quoted me above, the unfortunate part was that they jumped to conclusions, as you yourself have, and assumed the spamming was done by me.

I’ll say this once more, i’ve never, ever, sold my mailing list. I made that abundantly clear for all the years i collected email addresses from loyal users. Over 17, 000 folks joined that list and i never heard a single complaint.

As for your pot shots at my site, Boneland.com, for it’s disgusting over use of advertising; guilty as charged. For a long time Boneland.com was a wasteland of ads and i’ve never been happy about it but unfortunately it was the only way to sustain the hosting costs of running a bandwidth intensive site with Boneland.com’s popularity. Back in the day i tried every angle to keep the site up without the ads but in end, anyone who runs a flash site knows they’re a necessary evil.

I’m sorry that events originating on my site, even two years ago now, caused you enough trouble to feel the need to write about it and i hope you accept my version of the events for the truth that they are.

Tyler Gibb
Boneland.com

ps. I’m glad you liked the cartoon.