From http://www.hatchoo.com: Welcome to the official site of Spammers Anonymous. This site is made for people on the Internet that spam. The most important part of getting rid of a problem is to admit you have one. Hundreds of people spam every day without knowing it. At the bottom of this page you can do a test to find out if you are a spammer. What is spamming? Spamming is concidered to be: "the compulsive urge to send huge amounts of unwanted email by individuals (or companies) to a larger number of people". According to C-Net, half a billion spams are sent daily. That's 8 spams per person. More than 30 percent of the e-mail traffic consists of spam. This has to stop! Wanford Wallace (the twinbrother of Snaford Wallace, the manager of Cyberprofanity, the most notorious spam-company ever) founded the Spammers Anonymous. He was disgusted of his brothers actions and wanted to help the victims of spam-fever. If you have been spammed, you can turn the spammer in. We will contact him to try to heal him. Tell spammers about this site and maybe we can make the Net a better place, remember Internet is a network of people! _________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU A SPAMMER? Choose the answers most appropriate to you. The test exists of 12 questions. At the end of the page you can check your score (only when you answer ALL the questions). No information will be sent from this page (except of course YOUR e-mail address to Cyberprofanity, hey! we have to make a living too). _________________________________________________________________ 1. For what do you use e-mail the most? (_) Private use (_) Business use (_) Marketing, advertising use (_) To make $$$$$$. 2. Have you ever e-mailed a message to more than one person? (_) no (_) yes, once (_) yes, more than once (_) always, why write a personal message, if you can send it to everyone? 3. Have you ever e-mailed a message more than once to the same person? (_) no (_) yes, once (_) yes, more than once (_) always, you have to be sure they read it! (_) Great! You're more than once on our mailinglist! 4. How many e-mail addresses do you use to mail from? (_) 1, why have more? (_) 2-5, just for fun... (_) more than 5, cause some addresses get blocked by angry providers 5. How many e-mail adresses do you often mail to? (_) less than 10, some friends and family (_) less than 20, friends, family and people i met on the net (_) more than 20, friends, family and people i don't even know (_) more than 150, including addresses i bought from others! 6. Have you ever sent e-mail from a non-existing e-mail address? (_) never! (_) yes, sometimes (_) yeah, because i don't want to get replies of pissed-off people 7. Do you type your average "subject" with CAPSLOCK ON? (_) no, people don't like if you scream (_) sometimes, by accident. (_) ALWAYS, OTHERWISE THEY WON'T READ IT! 8. What is the average priority-status of your message? (_) where can you adjust that? (_) normal, why change it? (_) high, I AM IMPORTANT! (_) HIGHEST, OTHERWISE THEY WON'T READ IT! 9. Which e-mail program do you use? (_) Netscape (or comparible) (_) Microsoft Explorer (or comparible) (_) Eudora (or comparible) (_) Stealth Bomber (or comparible) 10. How big are your average messages? (_) 3 Kb (_) 30 Kb (_) 300 Kb (_) 3 Mb 11. What do you do when only 10 people visit your homepage? (_) make the page better (_) advertise, by putting buttons and banners on better visited sites (_) e-mail friends to come to the page (_) e-mail EVERYONE to come to the page!!!! 12. What do you think about spamming? (_) it's irritating (_) 1-4 messages a day is no problem, I delete them anyway, when i'm not interested (_) 5-10 messages don't kill you, it gives you stuff to read (_) i hate it when they do it to me, that's why i do it to them (_) e-mail is a great medium to use for advertising (_) 'spamming' is a negative word, i'd rather call it: 'proactive marketing' _________________________________________________________________ That's all... ____________________ ___ Reset Result: 90-100 75-89 60-74 40-59 20-39 Lower than 20 � 1997 Hatchoo! _________________________________________________________________ --SCORE-- Lower than 20 You only use e-mail to get in touch with friends, family and the people you find interesting on the Internet. People that receive your mail can be sure it is written to them with care and attention. --SCORE-- 20-39 You normally use e-mail to get in touch with friends, family and some people you do business with. But: if you have some news that's interesting for more than one person, why type the story twice? Just Cc it to everyone! � 1997 Hatchoo! --SCORE-- 40-59 E-mail is an easy way to reach the people that don't know you, but should (according to you). Everytime you have news that isn't even interesting for someone, you just Bcc it to them! � 1997 Hatchoo! --SCORE-- 60-74 You probably have a product or service nobody needs. You invested a lot of money and want to have it back! You desparately surf around the Web to find all the e-mail addresses you can, and mail them how great your company is, hoping they'll give you money. � 1997 Hatchoo! --SCORE-- 75-89 You surely have a product or service nobody needs. You don't want to spend money on advertising and do it the cheapest way there is: SPAM-YOUR-ASS-OFF! You don't realise that nobody is going to buy your product by annoying them! � 1997 Hatchoo! --SCORE-- 90-100 You realise you have a product or service nobody needs. That's why you want to spam so many people you don't even have time to do it yourself. You hire a specialised Spam-company to do it for you. You think it won't harm your company, but it will. � 1997 Hatchoo! -jeanne Fight Spam! Join CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) http://www.cauce.org/ Tell your Congresscritters how Spam mailings hurt you. Help protect genuine Internet commerce: Outlaw UCE Spamming!