The Anemia Merger

Surprise.   Surprise.   Anemia did release,  and we're  still on the
scene.  I might as well  explain the  story of our  supposed "death"  here
to avoid  explaining  it countless  more times on irc than I already have.
As most of  you know,  Essbee left the  scene after the January  1996 pack
was  released.  He  left Pixel Pusher and Cheeze Monkey in charge.  Cheeze
Monkey  quit, and  Tsk was  the  Vice  President or  something like  that.
Nothing  was really very  definite as to  who was  in charge  after Essbee
left and a bunch of  rumors went flying around because there was very poor
group  communication,  and nobody  to clear  up the  rumors.   Anyway, Tsk
thought it would be cool to help  out his  new group  Think, so  he merged
Anemia  into it.  Since  Tsk wasn't  even the  leader of  Anemia it didn't
really make sense that he would try something  as stupid  as that.  He did
anyway, and I  heard that  he was planning on  doing it before  he did.  I
called  Essbee  on the phone  right  after I  found out  about it,  and we
planned  Anemia's comeback  to the  scene.  We  decided  that we  wouldn't
stop  Tsk from  merging Anemia because Anemia had already fallen far below
the level of  quality that it  should be at.  We  thought that this  would
actually  help  us  because  it would  cut the  numbers  of  members  down
considerably.  We were  pretty sure that there were some  loyal members of
Anemia who would help us  make it better than ever.  We didn't know how to
contact  a lot  of the  members, and  there were a lot that we didn't want
want to  contact to  rejoin Anemia  until  after this  pack  was released.
Anemia  started  out as a local  group in 206, so I contacted all of those
members who have regularly contributed to  Anemia  before to rejoin first.
Essbee never  did come  back as  planned, and  says that  he never will. I
tend to doubt that he will never  come back, but he still claims he won't.
Just in case you didn't know, Think was renamed Cancer.  The  Cancer
pack basically blew  chode, but what do you expect with a dedicated leader
like  Whitetrash?   Cancer died  after their  first pack.  Then WT revived
the group, then they died  again, and I'm not sure  exactly how many times
they've  died since. :)

The New, Improved Anemia

Essbee told me that I could run  Anemia now that it's back, and he's
not around  to do it  anymore.  The quality  control will be much  tougher
than ever  before, and  we won't be  accepting  nearly as  many people.  I
encourage former members to  reapply, but just  because you  were a member
before  doesn't  mean that  you'll be accepted  again.   I put Virt on the
list as the VP, and I may  give the leadership of  Anemia  away to him, or
someone else in the next few months if I feel that they can do a good job,
and stay dedicated to the group.

April 1996

This month's pack is by far the best  that has ever been released by
Anemia.  Thanks to CatBones for being the stud that he is, and unselfishly
contributing to the  pack.  He didn't even  ask for anything in return. :)
Also thanks to every other Anemia member who contributed, great job.  Mung
is working  on setting  up the Anemia web page.  It's  still in  the early
stages, and is under construction.  You're welcome to check it out  though
at:
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~punchy
If you have any questions, comments, complaints, or whatever about Anemia,
mail  them to  coug@zipnet.com.  That address  may change  in a  couple of
weeks, but you can contact Virt, or I on irc anytime. :)

- Coug