Here is a little story:
Once upon a time, for reasons I can't remember, I decided to write a little funny page called "Game of Satan" which condemned everyone that plays roleplaying games to hell. I made the page look like a totally fanatic, insane fundamentalist christian had written it.
It should have been obvious that the page was satire. I didn't think anyone would take it seriously. I didn't advertise the page at all, just added a link into it on my roleplaying pages.
Then someone found the page - probably by searching "satan and roleplaying" from the net. That person took the page seriously, didn't check what other pages I had, and posted a flame and the URL into the newsgroup rec.games.frp.dnd.
Thousands of people then read the page, and a few percent of them apparently took it seriously. They started to e-mail me, and I started collecting the e-mails. I have over 5 megabytes archive of them, with the headers and sender identification stripped, of course. There isn't enough disk space available for that archive.
I "enhanced" the page by adding the most outrageous and ridiculous claims I could think of, I added deliberate typos, many contradictions, and silly links, hoping that even the most ignorant person would immediately realize that the page is a joke. Finally, everyone who did just about anything - besides praying alone in seclusion - was condemned to hell by the page. I advertised this page a bit, because I thought no one could ever take the improved page seriously.
It didn't help. There seems to be an endless supply of ignorant readers in the US. More hate mail kept coming no matter what. Most of it came from aol.com and hotmail.com.
I didn't want to add a big "THIS IS A JOKE" text on the page, it would
spoil the layout. But I added a clear notice into the source code of
the page as a comment, and changed the background picture to say "YES:
THIS IS A JOKE". The blinking
<blink></blink> not <blink></blink>
has always been there.
And you probably guessed: it didn't help at all. No one bothers to read the source code, and most people don't seem to look at the background at all. They should: even the angle of the pentagram is a clear hint about the nature of the page.
Recently I changed the pages to preach love and not the flames of hell, because that seemed to be the most infuriating thing about the page. The old page is still available, behind warning pages.
Doesn't seem to help much. Now they are already flaming the new, improved pages.
Now if you already mailed a horrible flame, read this:
There is no need to apologize, because I can't possibly remember which comments are yours. That would require a higher level of photographic memory than I have...
Also, nothing the comment(s) said can't have offended me in any way. I don't remember being offended by any comments for years :)
To remove your comments, I would have to remove all the comments. I have absolutely no idea which comments are yours. I remove the names and all other identification from the comments, and I don't save the information. The few comments that include headers are those that were sent to me thousands of times or had interesting faked headers.