Amiga.org
Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: TheMagicM on September 05, 2005, 02:31:51 AM
-
So I have a ad on AW.net for my A3000T (its gone now..sold on Ebay)..but before I put it on ebay I had it listed there...
so I got this email....
==================
Hello, I saw your advert over the web and am much interested inbuying
it. I live in canada,I will be responsible for the shippment down to
my location, so please kindly write me back with your last offering
price.I will also need some of its recent pics,and will like to know its
present condition .I am Looking forward to your soonest reply.
MY REGARDS...............ALEXANDRAL
You can email alexandral at: alexandral_man_0009@yahoo.com or Phone:
====================
If you've ever been emailed by scammers you know how it looks like. First off, what idiot would put ALEXANDRAL ALEXANDRAL as first name/last name? So I played along...
I said:
==========
I'm selling it for $500. How do you plan on paying
and recieving the shipment?
==========
Scammer replied:
==========
Hello Alex Bartonek
thanks for your reply i want you to know that i am okay with the price and that of the conditon, also the price is okay by me but i have told you that i have my own shipping i dont want you to worry about the shipping i will like you to give me your info address so i can contact my cliet to issue you a check of $5000 for the payment and > shiping, so as soon as u got the check just quickly get it cash and deduct ur own money and send the remaining balance to my shipper so < that he can use that for the neccessary arrangment of his coming for the pivk up of the item ,so i will like you to provide uraddress were < u want the check should be send to you , so that u can received the < check quickly and also i will like to have ur phone number
because as
far as the transaction goes on i will still like to discuss futher with you on phone, so if u are agree with this my item and if are intersted in selling the payment. thank get back to me as soon as u received my email with your futher information...........thanks
==========
What stupid fsk would pay $5000 to someone he doesnt know then say, well keep $500 out of it and return $4500. Scammers are so stupid..One day I will catch one and literally beat the $hit out of him.
So I told the idiot:
==========
You're gonig to pay $4500 for shipping?
==========
Scammer said:
==========
HELLO
HAVE TOLD YOU THAT I HAVE MY OWN SHIPPER NOW SO YOU ARE GOING TO SEND THE BALANCE TO MY SHIPPER OKAY
==========
I replied again to try to get him to bite and what I wanted to do was ship him a whole bunch of junk..he never replied after that. :-(
-Alex
-
Aww.. shame he never replied!
Would have been amusing to send a load of bricks, or worse!
Amiga 3000T, $500...
Shipping, $4500...
Seeing the look on the scammer's face when he opens his container of bricks.... priceless! :-D
- Ali
-
Yes this is the current trend. I see it on Craigs List a lot. idiots trying to scam. I once posted a FREE Mac Plus to pick up local in Seattle and I got a scam reply for that too! I told him it was FREE so no need to pay. Never replied. I would love to grab one of em by the neck and break it. I also see a lot of Apple Macs and Powerbooks as scams on ebay too. They offer it for sale outside of ebay for a fixed price and offer an email address in the body of ad. Beware.
-
Inthesand:
I would have been burned if I was a noob. He would of sent me a check for $5000..probably a real check but stolen.. I would have deposited it and taken my cut including shipping and sent the rest back..he'd get about $4400-4500 cash and the check would bounce at the bank putting me $5000 in the negative + a A3000T would have been stolen.
-
Wow, they don't stop do they?
Yea, hope I don't meet up with a scammer. Im sure there are a round of people who would take turns beating every inch out of him. :-)
-
I just received a similar proposal last night for my A3000 after the ad I put on another Amiga dedicated WEB site.
Needless to say, I immediately reported this fraud attempt to the WEBMASTER and sent a proper Email to him.
Here's his Email contents:
Hello
thanks for your reply i want you to know that i am okay with the price and that of the conditon, also the price is okay by me but i have told you that i have my own shipping i dont want you to worry about the shipping i will like you to give me your info address so i can contact my cliet to issue you a check of $5000 for the payment and > shiping, so as soon as u got the check just quickly get it cash and deduct ur own money and send the remaining balance to my shipper so < that he can use that for the neccessary arrangment of his coming for the pivk up of the item ,so i will like you to provide uraddress were < u want the check should be send to you , so that u can received the < check quickly and also i will like to have ur phone number
because as
far as the transaction goes on i will still like to discuss futher with you on phone, so if u are agree with this my item and if are intersted in selling the payment. thank get back to me as soon as u received my email with your futher information...........thanks
Best Regards
By the way, HIS Email address is:
alexandral_man_0009@yahoo.com
This is just to warn people to be very careful when replying to strange Email addresses and providing valuable personal informations, such as address and phone number or, perhaps, even Bank Account details.
Regards.
-
You would think the f-ing scammers would atleast fix misspellings and typos if they are going to take time to draft a scam email! WTF man! And the theme is always the same, all arangements are taken cared of and here is $5000, just send the rest. Yeah right.
I guess they get morons who fall for it all the time. I am so sick and tired of these idiots! If I ever come face to face with one I will smash their face in with my Amiga 2000 keyboard!!!!
-
The point of these scams is not a bogus check, its to get your address, and accounts, phone number ect. ID theft. It's like the Nigreian who died and left millions that you can collect. All they want is id info. The poor english is the big giveaway. I doubt this guy is in Canada... :pissed:
-
i have had a simular email wen i was selling Amiga 500 parts on amibench.
quote "my client wants to buy the whole lot"
i didnt go with it because they were from america anyway.
-
amigaxyz:
Did you lose money???
NO!
Were you broken hearted ???
YES!
Animagic is NOT A SCAMMER. GET OVER IT.
-
And how would you know what animagic is!?
This is just your personal opinion. Caps and moderation privileges won't help you oppose your opinion to me.
@--morgan--
Uh, that was the first fair post that i got about this. (Ok, second if we count odin's post)
I'm willing to let it go man, but they keep forcing me to make new posts. :)
-
amigaxyz wrote:
And how would you know what animagic is!?
This is just your personal opinion. Caps and moderation privileges won't help you oppose your opinion to me.
I'm not trying to sway your opinion and dont really care actually. Looks like the only person who thought you were scammed in your situation was.... you. Look on E-Bay, I'm sure you will find replacement parts for your A1200.
-
After having read through this thread from top to bottom, I've decided that I want to become eccentric enough that I have to have a broker coordinate my Amiga purchases for me.
"my client"... what a laugh! :flame:
-AmigaEd
-
Actually I've talked with a few people who have been scammed. The scammer sends a faked money order which cashes fine... then a week or two later it gets to the original bank and is refused and then bounces in your account. So basically you think it's good and give up the $$ to the buyer, then it bounces and you owe $4500.
-tom
vic20owner
-
Gypsies have taken over the Internet!!! :-o
-
Gypsies have taken over the Internet!!!
And what's THAT supposed to mean?
-
Ok, lets NOT talk about amigaxyz, i DID send the KB to him and returned back to me as ACS (the courier) never found him. iIhave all the log files from amigahellas, his threds to me, his insults to me and my mother (and all my family etc...). Just ask Anybody on #amigahellas (Mrzammler got a 3000 KB from me for free also, I am one of the founders of amigahellas.gr etc. Ask anybody that MET ME IN PERSON on amigathering 6 and make your own opinions. ONE FACT: amigaxyz was permanently banned by IRCOPS from GRNET for using nickanmes like "animagocs mother is a whore"....
I have contacted a moderator for his post and I hope he will remove it.
I would like to know more about the "Gypsies" thing though...
-
The kind amigaxyz is speaking, compared to Animagic is telling a lot about the persons :-)
I also bought 2 things in eBay a Maxon Cinema 4D CD and 128MB DIMM RAM's both never arrived me. But I believed the senders that it were lost, because I know the german post and I used the cheapest courier without insurance. Things happens ..
-
I know Animagic for only a month and I believe that he's the most friendly and helpfull person I have ever met. He helped me most of the time with my Amiga problems and questions and he even wanted to send me one cable that he didn't use, because I couldn't find it anywhere local. Fortunatelly I found it, so I couldn't bother him. I really can't believe that there are people that don't look on eBay or searching google for stuff and beg other people for help. The worst of all is getting helped and calling "names" the same time! I don't know "amigaxyz" so I can't really tell but knowing Animagic I can REALLY TELL that he's a dedicated, helpfull AMIGA FAN!
Marios Filos, Athens/GREECE
-
@thread
just to clear things up
amigaxyz was using a nick at the time that belonged to another person in the channel. that's why animagic thought it was someone else.
I've met animagic and we've been good friends in irc and in real life. He has sent me an a3000 keyboard as he said before, for free. He's a very descent and good person, and i know a couple of others he had helped with amiga gear before. He has donated hardware for our community server, again for free.
If animagic says he send the package, then it's true. He was offering a free keyboard to someone he didnt know! I dont think there are many people who would do the same thing, nowdays, and it sucks when someone who should say thanks just because someone got in the trouble of making him happy, comes here instead and spreads false accusations.
-
Gypsies have taken over the Internet!!!
Intelligent comment.
:whack:
-
I too personally know Animagic, and I believe him 100%.
The whole thing is a misunderstanding, and in NO way he should be considered a scammer. He is a honest, helpfull and nice person.
-
Hi. I first met Animagic online a few months ago on #amigahellas and he seemed like a decent, talkative guy.
I did meet him physically in late July during Amigathering 6 in Thessaloniki, talked to him quite a lot and had lunch and dinner with him along with the rest of the Amiga users that bothered to show up.
He seems to be an enthusiastic Amiga user who's actually *used* his Amigas for *real work* (TV station). Not only did he fly from Rhodes to Thessaloniki but he carried along his newly acquired A1000 for the 20th birthday celebration. He also offered to lend it to us for display purposes for the upcoming InfoSystem Expo. I don't think that he would scam anyone, especially for a second hand keyboard.
I'd trust this guy anytime and I think that he made a good impression to everyone at the show.
Btw, yes, there are no Amiga shops left in Greece but you can always order stuff from Vesalia, Amigakit, Amigis, KDH etc...
Frank / amigathering.gr
-
I remember that incident with Animagic.
Someone entered #amigahellas and started pinging, querying and behaving in a strange manner. On a query he told me that he didn't have a keyboard (yet he was able to type the query).
I chat with Animagic a lot on the Greek Amiga channel and I think that he's a nice guy, although a bit innocent sometimes as it turned out in this case.
Animagic told me that this guy needed a keyboard and that he was going to send him a spare one, etc, etc.
I told him that he shouldn't bother because that guy's either a kid, or someone who hasn't got a life.
I also doubted that the address which that guy had given him even existed.
Of course the package was returned, because the address could not be found.
I don't know what to suggest to the person accusing Animagic.
Grow up?
I think I shouldn't bother with him at all.
I only posted here, so that the rest of you won't get the wrong picture of Animagic because of that guy's accusations.
-
I already defended Animagic on this thread months ago, not because I know him personally, but because I looked at the situation that was described objectively, and it just wasn't a scam. However, it seems my posts were deleted :-( :-( I didn't insult anyone, or anything, so I'm a bit puzzled what happened... :-?
-
I would like to thank everybody for "defending" me. :-)
It is really difficult to defend yourself against offending posts :-(
I would also like to thank the moderators for removing that offending post :-)
-
I told him that he shouldn't bother because that guy's either a kid
A "stupid kid" would be more applicable. *I* am a kid too (compared to some others in the channel). ;-)
Anyway, Animagic is VERY trustworthy, no matter what bull-droppings someone wants people to believe. Poios pousths einai autos, anyway? :-P
-
Is it? You need to participate in unmoderated forums some more then. ;-)
I wouldn't thank the moderators for removing the offending post, I'm *sure* that it had at least some entertainment value. ;-) Posts by idiots, accusing people, always make a fun read. :-)
-
I didnt really want to delete it but...eh.. no biggie..good as gone.
-
TjLaZer wrote:
...
If I ever come face to face with one I will smash their face in with my Amiga 2000 keyboard!!!!
:-o
Nooooo - don't!!!
Better take an old solid and heavy DELL-PC-keybord for that!!!
:crazy:
:-D
-
I was amazed when i saw that he, with the help of his buddies, had the nerves to attack me. He and his greek group of friends simultaneously..
It`s more than clear that this is something premeditated and well coordinated.
I mean, where was all this gang of ppl when i first made the post? Ifirst post about it a MONTH ago!
Have a look at this:
animagic : 5/10/2005 12:07
mfilos : 5/10/2005 12:59
MrZammer : 5/10/2005 13:10
keropi : 5/10/2005 13:43
skryrunner : 5/10/2005 15:44
Spyros : 5/10/2005 16:42
AmiGR : I will translate of what he posted and report him as he deserves, later.
This is so sad and amusing at the same time...
These are ALL "old" friends of animagic. Real and cyber. You have my word on this.
I understand very well that this is a david Vs goliath kind of battle but i don't give a nickel, I will post a reply.
About animagic:
He continues to be indecent as usual by saying that a courier service like acs can make a delivery error 2 times in a row, which is pretty damn impossible. I have already said the REAL reasons of why he never sent the k/b.
Though, one of the things he said is true: After a long period of waiting for the k/b TWISE and after i was certain that i was repeatedly tricked by him, i enter the same irc channel and started to call him many, many names.(iirc, my nick was never banned from grnet but never mind about it)
See?? I like the truth, i speak the truth, i fear no logs.
Now let's see if HE likes the truth:
When i called him on the phone for the first time EVER, after he promised to send me the k/b, he also told me that ONE OF THE GUYS OF AMIGAHELLAS HAS UPLOAD AMIGAOS 3.9 CD TO THEIR PRIVATE FTP SERVER and that I WOULD ONLY NEED A USERNAME AND PASSWORD TO D/L IT, AS HE (animagic) AND OTHERS HAS ALREADY D/L IT!
Thank god, i usually record my phone sessions in my a/m and so, i have him on a TAPE.
He said that the cd image was compressed and that he didn't remember the password by heart. After 5 minutes the conversation ended.
Now, is this the definition of PIRACY or what? I wonder what the he, his buddies and the mod who erase my post have to say about this. (is it you TheMagicM?) Also, keep in mind that AOS 3.9 was still a hot cake back then.
In case someone wonders why i didn't mention this in my first post:
I didn't wanted to push things to the edge for a freakin stupib k/b, but seeing a group of greek p*nks attacking me from every direction simultaneously,Is too much irritating and provocative.
One LAST thing that i would like to mention about animagic and his moral standards is that he waited for my initial posts to be erased in order to make a post about me.
See the decency of the individual? It is quite obvious of what kind of a person he is.
mfilos wrote:
I really can't believe that there are people that don't look on eBay or searching google for stuff and beg other people for help
I can't really blame you for saying this. In my first post here, i explain what the
situation was, but the moderator decided to erase the most crucial post of mine and to leave intact non-important ones..
The result? All the residents of amiga.org are entering this thread, read what he, and his greek pals, are saying about me without having a slightest clue of what happened. You know..without getting the whole picture? Is this fair, moderator? I'm sure it's not.
Anyway, let me explain:
I am a dedicated Amiga user and i never possessed another type of computer in my whole life. (8-bit systems are excluded)
My k/b was damaged. How could i use google and ebay without a k/b? I was desperately
asking for help using /pings and /dcc-sends of a pre-typed SOS text message. And what i got? A low person pi**ing on me.
I hope that you got a better picture now.
MrZammler (and other comrades of him) wrote:
amigaxyz was using a nick at the time that belonged to another person in the channel. that's why animagic thought it was someone else.
I hate to repeat myself but in my first post i explain EVERYTHING, including this.
About the rest of your post: Oh, i know how nice, pleasant and sympathetic type of guy he appears to you, but that's not necessary true.
There is a certain breed of ppl who look exactly like this, but at
the end, they are just pretenders, double-faced and generally they use to "lick their way up" if you know what i mean. I can't use the exact word here. (After what happened, i did a little research on rhodos about him, and i have built a pretty much good picture about his persona)
So, don't say that i'm spreading false accusations without knowing me.
Spyros (yet another close friend of animagic) wrote:
Someone entered #amigahellas and started pinging, querying and behaving in a strange manner. On a query he told me that he didn't have a keyboard (yet he was able to type the query).
Ok, there are 2 possible scenarios here:
1. You have read my fist post before it was deleted: In this case you are just a big liar.
2. You haven't read my first post: In that case i have only say that having no k/b
explains the "strange manner" that you describing and the message
"Help! The kb of my A1200 is damaged. SOS!" Was pre-typed in a friends PC and saved on a 720kb disk.
If the second scenario is true, blame the mod not me.
i don't know what to suggest to the person accusing Animagic.
I shouldn't bother with him at all.
Ok, he can keep his advices for himself and for ppl like his friends. It's me that i shouldn't bother with this kind of ppl. Nice coordinated attack, btw.
@The moderator
I believe that erasing my ENTIRE post was completely wrong and now, i'm sure that now, you can see why.
You could just sensor the offending words. I don't want to believe that you are prejudice against me. That would be something terrible for a mod, wouldn't it?
IF and only if you are "TheMagicM":
Why are you so negative to me from the start? Let me remind you that you are OBLIGATED (as a mod) to be equally fair to ALL the user inside this community. I believe that you are NOT. Try to be, and then try harder.
Alternatively, you could just delete my account to show how fair you are to me. Wth, afterall, old and intrer-connected users are always right!
My first post about this is right here with me. I'm willing to send it to anyone who is interested or even re-post it here, if someone wants to.
-
For the love of GOD get A LIFE!
If you still want the KB come and get it! Its yours to take! I will NOT send it again!
Oh my god... :crazy:
-
(ignoring the previous post)
About amiGR:
First of all i don't know who the hell he is, never met him physically
or spoke to him on the irc/im. You see, i prefer civilized or just human beings.
Secondly, i hope that there will be another mod beside TheMagicM, who will read this post
and do something about his post.
Let me translate what he wrote about me:
"Poios pousths einai autos, anyway?" = "Who is this fag, anyway?"
The specific word doesn't mean just homo or gay, but f*g.
I think that he is confusing me with HIS boyfriend. Or maybe with a
reflective surface? :)
amiGR is the perfect example of the kind of ppl i have to deal with in this thread.
Behold his/their quality!..
Among other insulting attempts, he also wrote:
"A "stupid kid" would be more applicable. *I* am a kid too"
Yeah, he surely shows his age. I could bet that he is a kid, while i'm not.
@TheMagicM
He called me a F*G among other things and you kinda nodded to him. Without
knowing what the phrase means of course, but even what he said in english was enough.
Imho, This is just unacceptable. Is there someone who moderates the moderators?
No, really! Where is your sense of justice?
I REALLY think you should do something about it. Like moderate MY post or ban ME
for example, since he is a more old user here, interconnected and slimy than i am.
That's it from me. I don't think that i will post to this thread, except if someone
provokes me in a very bad way. Don't think that i enjoy what i do right now.
-
my God GET A LIFE NOW!!!!
and the statements above like: "greek buddies" "coordinated attack" and that lame "os3.9 piracy" really show off your quality as a person... I pitty you...
anf FYI, AmiGR is a VERY VERY VERY helpfull guy... he spent ours with me on irc trying to get my machine running...
The guys on #amigahellas are ALWAYS and EXTREMELY helpfull, one can only imagine what kind of a morron you are...
-
@thread
:roflmao:
-
Hmmm...
I just saw that kids post and it says something about OS3.9 on FTP !
I have no comment on this. That jkid is full of s&*t and it will remain like this ...
I think I need something more than defend my self on a forum. I have 2 options:
A) Get a lawyer fix things up with this kid
B) Ignore him as the rest of the world does to those kids
I think I will take the 2nd option :-D
-
Ok, that's it! one more post by an idiot like keropi and i'm buying an audio sampler, make an mp3 and upload it to a publicly accessible site. I may be a liar like them, but
an audio tape can not lie.
Bye for now.
-
amigaxyz wrote:
Ok, one more post by an idiot like this
An idiot like this just posted above my post!
@mods: Perhaps it's more humane to do the right thing and euthanise amigaxyz's account?
-
HAHAHAAHAHAHA
Who are you calling and idiot? specificaly me or everybody else that said you acted like a kid? man, stop posting, it is not good for your image...
as for the tape A) do it B) please do it C) please please do it D) You will like the jail "kid", you know you cant tape people on the phone :-D
-
Hm, do you think that I don't have the balls to say what I said in any language? You should really look the name "Alkis Tsapanidis" up on old ann threads then.
For everyone's amusement, I called him a fag. Basically, you could translate what I said to "Who the f*** is that fag, anyway?". Will it be moderated, maybe and rightfully so. But don't you think that I hide behind my words you f*cking jerk.
-
I think that he is confusing me with HIS boyfriend. Or maybe with a
reflective surface? :)
Oh, you found the wrong person to start this {bleep} to, trust me. Most people in here know me, my views and my manners, when calm and when pissed. At the moment, I'm in "having fun at an idiot" mode. About me having a boyfriend, well I'm straight t but I could care less about your homophobic bickerings, I could well get one in the far future, who knows what life beholds. :-)
Are YOU sure that you're that straight? :-)
amiGR is the perfect example of the kind of ppl i have to deal with in this thread.
Behold his/their quality!..
LoL... My take on my manners: I am polite, maybe excessively so at times, but when I want to say something about someone, I *will* say it, no matter what the outcome will be. I do not hide behind my words.
Yeah, he surely shows his age. I could bet that he is a kid, while i'm not.
Oh, yes, I do. And so do most people in here. I was born on the fifth of May, 1986, which makes me 19 years old. I also am an electronic engineering student at the University of Nottingham. At the same time, as many people will tell you, I have more experience in Amiga matters, including Amiga community matters, than most people on most forums. Do you think that I'm such an idiot to hide my age? I've been on the net for 7 years and been using Amigas for 13, why would I?
Here's (http://www.amigathering.gr/ag_viewpic.php?pic=ag4_28.jpg) my ugly face at 16 presenting my Amiga, here (http://www.amigathering.gr/ag_viewpic.php?pic=ag6_91.jpg) it is 3 months ago discussing MorphOS with ToRus and here (http://www.bifford.nildram.co.uk/images/045.jpg) you can see the same ugly face tweaking Bifford's Peg2 in Big Bash 3, last month.
Who are you? An anonymous figure spouting insults at one of the most respected members of the Greek Amiga Community (Animagic) without really backing up any of them.
Do you wanna come see me to discuss this matter over some beers? Sure, come over to Beeston, Nottingham.
So much for me being such an immature prick. :-)
BTW, do you think that getting on IRC with other people's nicks, including Animagic's and my own, and swearing at everyone and making insulting and threatening phonecalls (which is illegal, BTW) helps your position on this matter? Think again.
Right, Amigaxywhatever? Or should I say s0t (not to be confused with SoT)?
-
The fact is that I don't spend all of my time posting on A.org or ANN etc... although I read both daily and I did read your and others' posts about this matter so I felt obliged to say my opinion.
-
Well, I the "idiot" DARE YOU amigaxyz to upload the TAPE uoy have... you are such a lamer...
also why do you tape your phonecalls??? you are a bigger looser than I thought... always believing others try to mess with you, when you are always the morron...
amigaxyz, GET A LIFE NOW!!!! quick before you are consumed by your incredible stupidity and lameness...
-
amigaxyz, the rest.. save the drama fo' you mamma.. or take it to PM.
EDIT: I dont really like to spend extra time replying to/justifying what I do..but nevertheless...
amigaxyz: ok, I actually wasted a few minutes and read your post.
FACT:
The bottom line is nobody was ripped off..maybe someones feelings were hurt and thats it. I see no point in you posting all of this when you lost ZERO, 0, nada, NO MONEY.
What was your true intent since you lost nothing?
Piracy:
I'm not the SPA, what users do on their own time does not concern me. Just dont post pirate links on AO then you'll get in trouble. As for somehow insinuating it might be myself hosting or giving away pirated softwareZ or that I know Animagic or that I am he..nope..wrong guy.. but he does seem like a nice guy. What he does on his own time is none of my business.
amigaxyz says:
In case someone wonders why i didn't mention this in my first post:
I didn't wanted to push things to the edge for a freakin stupib k/b
Really? wow.
amigaxyz says:
@The moderator
I believe that erasing my ENTIRE post was completely wrong and now, i'm sure that now, you can see why.
You could just sensor the offending words. I don't want to believe that you are prejudice against me. That would be something terrible for a mod, wouldn't it?
IF and only if you are "TheMagicM":
Why are you so negative to me from the start? Let me remind you that you are OBLIGATED (as a mod) to be equally fair to ALL the user inside this community. I believe that you are NOT. Try to be, and then try harder.
Alternatively, you could just delete my account to show how fair you are to me. Wth, afterall, old and intrer-connected users are always right!
My first post about this is right here with me. I'm willing to send it to anyone who is interested or even re-post it here, if someone wants to.
Do you think I am going to spend that much time editing your posts when obviously you're just here to slander someone? I actually am fair to all AO users assuming they follow the Posting Guidelines (http://www.amiga.org/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=6).
As for the last sentence in your quote, it wouldnt be prudent to repost it.
Thanks
-Alex