Some affiliates are worth helping – I had an affiliate who brought in players via poker clubs (word of mouth etc).
Our designer made him a site, and he learned SEO, HTML etc etc. Now’s he’s pretty big and making 5 figures every month.
He took 2 years to learn it all but it’s worth it as I always get prime exposure on his sites due to helping him out.
I have had a handful of affiliates who have pestered me till the cows came home – I have learned just to be quite blunt now as I don’t have the time to basically run an affiliate site for them (I might as well do it myself!).
Well done on sorting it Renee, the guy will either give up now or educate himself (the latter being preferred obviously). Sometimes being cruel (I definte cruel here as subtle letting down) to be kind is better.