After a lot of thinking, I've decided that though I created AOLiza to see just to see if it could be done, and as a personal experiment, putting the convos online was wrong. It's hard, because my readership has increased fivefold since I put it up, but it's really humor at innocent people's expense. In the words of Homer Simpson, "It's funny because I don't know the guy." (Also from Homer, "It's funny because it's somebody else" and, "It's funny because it's true.")

So, in a nutshell, I'm taking the site down for the time being. Once I get the all-perl version up and running, I'll replace it with a version that lets visitors give it a whirl, and then with the 'AOL-Teen' version and perhaps the "AOL-cybersex' version, for people to play with, but I'm not keen on playng on the unwitting ignorance of strangers to fuel traffic to the site.

It's a shame though, because it was funny as fuck.

Think I'm being a wuss? Think of a compromise? Bribe me for my source code so you can take up where I left off? I'm leaving the Discussion board open.

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