A.D.wrote :

Is the web site something that bores you?

Nope. What bores me is getting ignorant messages like this from rude
people like you.

This isn't intended to sound rude

Well you failed. It most certainly is the rudest letter I have ever 
received since November 1996 when I started the Web site.

but the content of your site
hasn't changed for sometime. I am sure that with the impact that
the internet has as a whole, the responsibility of it's content is up
to people such as yourself. 

Responsibility???? What !!!! Responsibility to whom? I maintain the 
Web site in my spare time as I mention several times in the site. I 
have responsiblity to my family and work. If people enjoy my site 
that's great; I get a lot of satisfaction from that. But they enjoy my
site on my terms. If you had paid a subscription then, yes, it would be my
responsibility to update the site regularly. But its free! So I do it when
I get time and I've had virtually no free time over the summer.

You obviously have no idea how long it takes to put a Web site 
together and maintain it. Co-incidentally I received a very 
understanding message this week from which I'll quote :-

"Dear David, first congratulations on operating one of very few
websites that I keep coming back to; having put a few sites together
I know how much work it must have taken!"

If it wasn't for messages like that I might take yours more seriously and
say "sod it, if they are going to be like that I'll close the site down".

By this I mean that if you don't
alter the content then people will no longer visit. 

Well, most people seem to be a lot more tolerant than you. Most 
visitors understand that The Curry House is a labour of love, not 
profit, and bear with me when I don't update the site as often as I'd like
to. My visitor figures are the highest now that they have ever been.

I snipped your next little lecture on the obligations of Web site 
owners; you carried on by saying:

I am sick of reading about the 1998
Ethnic food show, surely there has been one or two more recent
ones that could have been reported from.

Hah! This made me laugh as it's the most ignorant bit of your message. I
am astonished that you feel you can write in this manner to a complete
stranger. If you're sick of it go somewhere else; don't whinge at me. The
funniest bit is that I did exactly what you are demanding back in June. If
you had bothered to look properly you would see that the link from the
home page is to my review of the 2000 Ethnic Foods show which I put up on
the Web site on 22 June.  

So have a little more patience and understanding. If it's more recipes 
you're after then you'll have to wait for the book (if I ever get time to 
write it). But then you'll have to buy it - it won't be free like the Web 
site.