;^) The Cricket Mafia is real, though only loosely organized.
:^/ As for how one becomes a meraber, I was invited to join the Cricket Mafia by one of its founding merabers when I had fewer than forty posts here. This was in response to my Cricket Internet tutorial linked in my signature. Mind you, I haven't mentioned this yet, but the technique described there isn't mine originally.
I'd been searching the Internet for a step-by-step tutorial for getting Cricket Internet working on my Tr