Don't you have a web site?
I can quit anytime I want...
I am just being social...
I don't need to be on the 'net...
I am only here after work and on week-ends...
About that web site, do you have anything I can sign up for?
LOL, Cal
----- Original Message -----
From: The Man From Utopia <tmfu@home.com>
To: Dana (E-mail) <gabster4u@aol.com>; DML (E-mail)
<dakota-truck@buffnet.net>; NJNE (E-mail) <NJNE@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 6:23 PM
Subject: DML: FW: Are you an internet addict?
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>
>
>
> DO YOU NEED HELP???
>
> Hello. Yes, you! You, looking at this screen for hours
> on end, online. You, bleary-eyed. You, an addict. Have
> you looked in the mirror lately? Been outside? Know what
> day of the week it is? Your name was given to us by a
> spouse or family member who is concerned about your
> Internet addiction. At Internetaholics Anonymous, we can
> help. We're a non-profit society of recovering addicts
> like yourself that provides support and counseling through
> weekly meetings designed to help you cope with your problem.
>
> We feature a twelve-step recovery program and in extreme
> cases, interventions. Although it is our firm belief that
> you are never "cured," you most certainly can recover.
>
> We have designed a brief checklist to determine IF you are
> an addict.
> Do you:
>
> 1) Have twitches of the hand when you walk by your
> terminal?
> 2) Check e-mail more than five times a day?
> 3) Spend more time chatting than eating or sleeping?
> 4) Surf aimlessly with no direction, if only to be online?
> 5) Leave your name and information at countless sites if
> only to hope you'll receive a reply one day from a company
> you'll never do business with anyway?
> 6) Log on before important personal habits, such as meal
> preparation, hygiene or bodily functions?
> 7) Have red, swollen eyes that hang halfway out of your
> head?
> 8) Spend hours online on a holiday from work, where you'd
> usually be griping about your carpal tunnel syndrome?
> 9) See smoke arising from your computer or WebTV box?
> 10) All of the above?
>
> If you answered yes to four or more questions ,
> (or chose #10), you have a problem. Please call us at
> Internetaholics Anonymous at:
> 1-800-LOGOFFNOWFORSWEETPETESSAKES. We're here, we're
> free, and we're confidential. The first step to recovery
> is an admission that you have a problem. Call us today.
> If you can power off to free up your phone line, that is.
>
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