1)We admitted we were penniless over our addiction and our lives had become unmanageable.

2)We came to believe that a CPU greater then ours could restore us to sanity.

3)We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our computer as we understood it.

4)We made a searching and fearless backup of our hard-drive(s).

5)We admitted to God, ourselves, and another BBS the exact nature of our wrongs.

6)We were entirely ready to have God remove all those viruses.

7)We humbly asked him to do away with bugs.

8)We made a spreadsheet of all the persons we had harmed.

9)We made direct amends, via modem to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure or fry our modems.

10)We continued to make vigilant backups.

11)We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our CPU praying only for a power supply to carry it all out.

12)Having had a good laugh out of this damn thing we decided to make a hard copy of the above steps and post it on our walls.