oi!~@
oi there. spleen is alive and .. erhm. not well. whatever. anyways, this
infofile is the main reason we have a disk at allthis month. it is in .txt
format for those of you without some ansi compatible viewer or another. in
fact, all future group infofiles will be both ansi and txtformats. however i
do recommend iceview(tm)(r)(c) or something because text-only infofiles are
suck. =) you don't get the festive colors of the ansi .nfo so...

so... ?
so, you're saying. i thought spleen was going to kill itself. then wormlike
black parasites would come out of its nose, a la last week's x-files two-
parter conclusion. which i thought was pretty bad. they could have done it way
better. but i digress. spleen. a few things. first off, a new group is indeed
forming. we have a new member i believe for next month, when the new group
really starts. unless we release another spleen disk =)

so why isn't there a new group yet?
two reasons really.
    1. lack of material [as is obvious]
    2. we couldn't decide on a name =)

name, huh? is that so hard?
yes. would you like to know what we came up with so far?

no.
too bad, i'm telling you anyways. =) our method of coming up with new names is
pretty arbitrary: phantasm whips out a dictionary and looks for cool words. :)
nobody agrees on anything really. phantasm's favorite so far is "sable",
nitris' is "fission", xenakis' was "phrygia" which he came up with himself
actually, tempest's was "safranine" [which she subsequently swiped for her own
alias], and warpus still likes spleen. there've been some fairly sizable
debates on the hunting grounds over what we should use. for a while "skean"
seemed to be the common favorite, but i don't believe anyone particularly
likes it any more. and so the discussion rages on =) your comments and
suggestions, gentle reader, are greatly appreciated. we don't really want
some unoriginal artscene-y name. we want something that'll make us stand out.
make us noticed. make us stuff.

memberlist
   abr alias                                email  mod imp s3m stm mtm xm
    fn:phantasm ............. crose@julian.uwo.ca            .   .   .
    ni:nitris ............. gfonti@mustang.uwo.ca            .   .   .
    no:not opus ........... nishlap@execulink.com   .         .   .   .
    sa:safranine ........ safranine@geocities.com      .         .   
    wa:warpus ......... warpus@bbs.multiboard.com   .   .      .      .
    xs:xenakis ....... firefox@bbs.multiboard.com            .      .

as i mentioned, we do have a new member. since he hasn't released with us yet,
he's not on this list. also as mentioned, tempest changed her alias to
safranine some time ago. i set up the geocities email account in her name
since i have my own. and i think it's working now, so send her something.
warpus' other address is tbroniew@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca. and that should
be all you need.

affiliated boards                                                       sta
    name                                op software    number of phone  tus
    tenuous ..................... phantasm unknown ... +1(519)672-7140, *down*
the hunting grounds ........ shadow hunter renegade .. +1(519)433-8173, dis
    nocturnal trip ............... coroner pcboard ... +41(0)1-8402162, dis

doa is down. the new board with new software will be named tenuous and may be
upas early as this weekend [dec.7-8] with some luck. i suppose we're accepting
new sites, but the bbs as a transport medium is dead; let's face it. sites are
neat though and we might be just the affil you need to round out your music-
oriented board. ;)

internet stuff
    www.geocities.com/paris/7986
         the official homepage. it's basically all done now.
         it will be *your* source of information in the month to come.
         spleen could be going in any number of directions.
                           /7986/index.html is the main page with links.
                               /nitris.html is nitris' incredible page =)
                             /phantasm.html is phantasm's page, with pics!
                            /safranine.html is safranine's page.
                 www.execulink.com/~nishlap is not opus' page.
    ftp.cdrom.com/pub/demos/incoming/music/disks to pick up new disks.
    ftp.cdrom.com/pub/demos/music/disks/1996/s to pick up old disks.

release notes
this might be our last monthly release. depending on how things go, we
might've to just release whenever we get 1.4mb of music to release, which
could be more than once a month but would likely be less. who knows.

the word of the pack is faience, which is a kind of fine glazed pottery,
usually decorated with colorful glazes.

bye
your favorite group may be undergoing renovations, but that's no reason to
cry. cheer up! we'll be back for more. don't you fret on our account. thank
you for reading, and happy holidays whatever your religious persuasion. don't
you just love how commercialized this time of year is? christian holidays,
bah. :P
