pissed off A very strange person managed (with the aid of a panicked ISP employee of questionable intelligence) to shut down the whole site.
The full story is here:
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/arc
sent to me by the ever alert 
st_jb. Thanks, girl!
And now I'm once more posting the
20 Thumbs Down Agents List
The Abacus Group Literary Agency
Allred and Allred Literary Agents (refers clients to "book doctor" Victor West of Pacific Literary Services)
Capital Literary Agency (formerly American Literary Agents of Washington, Inc.)
Barbara Bauer Literary Agency
Benedict & Associates (also d/b/a B.A. Literary Agency)
Sherwood Broome, Inc.
Desert Rose Literary Agency
Arthur Fleming Associates
Finesse Literary Agency (Karen Carr)
Brock Gannon Literary Agency
Harris Literary Agency
The Literary Agency Group, which includes the following:
Children's Literary Agency
Christian Literary Agency
New York Literary Agency
Poets Literary Agency
The Screenplay Agency
Stylus Literary Agency (formerly ST Literary Agency)
Writers Literary & Publishing Services Company (the editing arm of the above-mentioned agencies)
Martin-McLean Literary Associates
Mocknick Productions Literary Agency, Inc.
B.K. Nelson, Inc.
The Robins Agency (Cris Robins)
Michele Rooney Literary Agency (also d/b/a Creative Literary Agency and Simply Nonfiction)
Southeast Literary Agency
Mark Sullivan Associates
West Coast Literary Associates (also d/b/a California Literary Services)
I ask that other writers on this blog to copy and paste this list in their blogs as well. Get the word out. Shine a light on these scammers and put them out of business!
Here is a link on the SFWA site where it appeared outside of Absolute Write. Post it, too.
http://www.sfwa.org/beware/twentyworst.h
It ain't libel when it's true.