It's been turned off since April 12, 2001, when a suburban New York mall punk band launched a hate campaign against The Cooters.  They posted lies about us on their website but more importantly, they came to our website and trashed it over and over and over again. We felt we had to turn off the public posting function of the Cooters Guestbook. We continued to receive hate e-mail from the band, their controversial "punk" record label and some of their associates. Despite the fact that the e-venom hasn't ended, we have decided to launch a new Cooters Message Board anyway. Will the controversy ever end?