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Union October 1994 NFO File Howdy folks. As you may notice, the Union pack was delayed until October 2nd for a variety of reasons, including some artwork which couldnt be sent to us until this time, some coding stuff, and.. well.. hang overs. :. Anyways, on to the things of note this month. Surprisingly enough Flatlined Reality is still being run at my house 613-824-7375. An entire month with one number, isnt that cool?! Also in the board movage scene, Packaged Rebellion switches area codes as Mass Delusion goes off to college. The new and improved number is 408-246-0281. The improved local sysop is mCa. Last month our courier coordinator, TaZ, got an ld cap on his phone lines due to unpaid bills. This more or less reduced his effectiveness as cc. We have decided to move the cc position from TaZ to Ded Silence, one of our couriers and musicians. The position of courier hq is being moved to Packaged Rebellion. Look up there for number. Hopefully our couriers will be better monitored now that we have a cc again, as Im sure quite a few of them havent been doing much. There was a TREMENDOUS OVERSIGHT last month which Im still kicking myself for, I forgot to put Black Lightning on the memberlist. Anyways, this dude came over from the defunct Imperial last month, and he rocks. Enough said. You may notice his name is in blinking red in the memberlist, this is to emphazise my stupidity. I cant even spul : Also new this month is Neurosis. The aliases might seem similar, but we *ARE* different people. :. He hails from 404, the relic/trybe state, while I am Canadian because... I... Am.. He is mainly a coder, but he also does some anzis. d00dle d00dle. Necronite from shiver/manifest also joined this month. He and I did a pHUNKy jOINt lOg0 this month, check it out. I did the colouring. : Last but not least in the new dudes this division is Sharp Edg from relic. Sharp Edg hasnt left relic, hell just be splitting his ansi work between the two groups. Itll be interesting to see how this will work out. In the member board/site listings theres been quite a few changes. Although there are only 3 new members this month, it seems like everyone in the group is throwing up a board. That sounds gross. We also nuked a LOT of sites, theyve had 4-5 months of warnings to join in Union Net, you would have though that JUST MAYBE they would have taken heed. We didnt list the courier member boards this month, as we are not quite sure which ones will still be in the group once we are finished with the courier nukage. As always, the newest UnionNet nodelist has been included in this pack. If youre in it, set up the nodelist, and take a GOOD LOOK at it for any changes. Almost all the changes since last month are mentioned in a little Whats new at the top of the file. Theres a new division in Union this month, the Granmas hands department. Anyone in Union who can draw an accurately detailed rendition of Somms granmas hands in ansi can join the dept. So far the only contenders are Nailz for NZ-RN9.ANS and me with NC-PX1.ANS. Some how the article writing department got converted into the afro department. Dont ask me. I think I have more of a moptop than an afro. Dont worry Joe, only 4 months until I get it cut again. I had a wickedly wild idea this month concerning logos, the thing is, people want to keep them separated from the full length ansi so they put them in LOGO.ZIP or something gay like that, right? The unfortunate affect of this is that people forget to check out the logos. Some people have tried naming the files as .LGO instead of .ANS, but that got even more people angry at them. Anyways, I think perhaps I have the solution. In sauce there is this handy-dandy-neat-o-doo area for GROUPNAME. If people would code the option of sorting files by group name into their viewer, then we could name the full ansis UNION and the logos UNION LOGO. Then all the logos would come up after the full length ansis and EVERYONE would be happy. Logos are people too. We have already implimented this idea in this pack. The chances of this feature being coded into Uniview are.. well.. probably non-existant. PennyWise really hasnt been doing much with it in the past couple of months and I honestly doubt if he ever will. There are other viewers out there much better than ours, and I suggest you use them for viewing the pack. We will not include Uniview with the pack again until there are some changes of note. This month we feature the first in a series of action figures highlighting Union members, with UAF-NZ.EXE... yes, Nailz and I were dropped as children. There is an extremely large bin by Abomination this month, 640 columns. I do believe there currently isnt a viewer anywhere in the scene that supports bin widths of this length. Since the pack was already late by the time he it was finished 5:10 pm, well.. we didnt have time to code it. :. Perhaps in future months. The only thing I believe you can view it with it load it up PabloDraw. Incase youre mentally deprived, you may have not noticed that those two vgas by 28 were scanned. Think of this as sort of a preview of the first Numb pack. For those of you who have been in the scene for a matter or minutes or hours, Numb is 28s group which consists entirely of handdrawn artwork. Some of you may have noticed that this pack wasnt quite up to our last couple of months. This is totally understandable since school has started and just about everyone is spending less time in the scene. There were a few other minor factors that came into play though. Kools computer fucking blew up.. its fried. With it he lost the number to a couple of members. Nailz went through an I suck phase for most of the month until I hit him over the head with a hammer :. Various members switched numbers this month, there were a few this line is no longer in services, a few sorry, hes gone away to college, and a few people who are just never home. Schools teams are starting up, and some members are taking driving lessons. Nailz and I had no means of calling out this month, so some of the members still remain uncontacted... sorry guys. Overall though, I thought the pack was still pretty okay. See you in 30. Neurotic Union / CGNJ Oh yeah, for those of you who still havent checked out CGNJ, do so! We are elite!