A piece of MyLot humour to share with you

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I have to share this with my friends here on MyLot as it was way too funny for me to keep to myself. I was doing some research this morning and I wanted to see if one of my downline members in another site (ClixSense) was also a member here at MyLot. To check I entered my profile page link and just changed my name (paidreader) to the member name I was looking for at the end. I'm used to seeing page not found messages but it's usually a pretty good way of finding the information I need. This morning I was rather surporised to see a different kind of page. The page I landed on DID tell me the file was missing but in such an unusual way that I had to search for it not once, not twice, not even three times. I had to repeat my search 4 times until I was able to catch all of it. I wasn't able to catch it all with screen shots & I couldn't use the scroll bar to go back to the top and read it again. Oh, let me tell you, it's rather a sad story and I wanted to read all of it. You see I was actually communicating with the MyLot search server and it may have a problem with our MyLot members. It wants so much to help us and it's "feelings" are hurt when it can't provide the pages we are looking for, as you can tell from our one sided "conversation" below. I've coppied & formatted it as it's supposed to read, but it appeared one line at a time. If you want to repeat the search, I was looking for vally10 as a member name. It will probably work with plenty of other names, but this one should allow you to repeat my experience if you want to check it out for yourselves. Quote: Another Error 404 File is Missing in Action. The requested page is missing in action. Even tried texting him. Nothing helped. I'm really depressed about this. You see, I'm just a web server... with the power of a million hamsters trying to serve you a simple web page, and then it doesn't even exist! Where does that leave me?! I mean, I don't even know you. How should I know what you wanted from me? You honestly think I can *guess* what someone I don't even *know* wants to find here? *sigh* Man, I'm so depressed I could just cry. And then where would we be, I ask you? It's not pretty when a web server cries. And where do you get off telling me what to show anyway? Just because I'm a web server, and possibly a manic depressive one at that? Why does that give you the right to tell me what to do? Huh? I'm so depressed... I think I'll crawl off into the trash can and cut myself. I mean, I'm gonna be obsolete in what, two weeks anyway? What kind of a life is that? Two fraking weeks, and then I'll be replaced by a .01 release, that thinks it's God's gift to web servers, just because it doesn't have some tiddly little security hole with its HTTP POST implementation, or something. I'm really sorry to burden you I mean, it's not your job to listen to my problems, and I guess it is my job to go and fetch web pages for you. But I couldn't get this one. I'm so sorry. Believe me! Maybe I could interest you in another page? Like a page about bunnies and puppies being friends? Although none of them were put on *my* server, of course. Figures, huh? Everything here is just idle chat with members. That makes me depressed too, since I have to serve them, all day and all night long. Two weeks of information overload, and then *pffftt*, consigned to the trash. What kind of a life is that? Now, please let me sulk alone. I'm so depressed._ Let the server sulk by going back to home? End Quote In case you don't know how to repeat the search, the profile page is http://www.mylot.com/XXXX with the member name replacing the XXXX part of the web page address. Have you had this talk with the server before? Did you let the server sulk or did you find something else for it to do?