Suck

for 6 August 1996. Updated every TUESDAY.



	The Paper Chase meets the Gong Show
	network... on the Web!

	Ride the repeat visit for all its worth,
	filling a webzine with easy content by
	picking up Suck cast-offs.

	With only two empty slots to fill with
	content daily, Suck takes it all and only
	prints the best. Untold dozens of wannabe
	Sucksters dash against the cruel shores
	of editorial common-sense every day. But
	half the excitement in a contest - be it
	a boxing match or an editorial board
	meeting - is watching the defeated sulk
	off. With rejections kept private, Suck
	is ignoring a huge profit center and
	denying the masses a loser to laugh at.
	While a bad movie will almost always make
	it to Blockbuster's shelves, rejected
	Sucks simply disappear. Until now.



	Suck Harder is the website for everyone
	who wishes he or she could Suck,
	indiscriminately printing any article
	rejected by cooler heads. While the
	quality may not be as high as other daily
	sites, the content-hungry masses will
	almost inevitably stop by simply to see
	what didn't make the grade. Remember: ad
	hits are ad hits!


	A directory on an existing site, crude
	server administration skills, and the
	Apache man page get Suck Harder off the
	ground in an afternoon. A small Perl
	script functions as "Editor," laying out
	articles and inserting images. HTML
	design is easily stolen from existing
	sources, the out-dated style referred to
	as "classic" to avoid the cost and time
	required to learn Java and design
	original graphics. Authors are unpaid -
	hey, they Suck - to keep operating costs
	negligible. The inevitable, obligatory
	mention in Suck provides enormous free
	publicity to complete the picture.

courtesy of An Entirely Other Greg