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LETTERS AND MESSAGES -------------------------------------- About the next issue: Please note that the deadline for votes, news etc. for issue 18 (the next!) is the 19th of December. This is because we want to release that issue at The Party II in Aars, Denmark. We COULD set the deadline a little later, but first of all, letters aren't delivered during the holidays anyway, and secondly, we don't expect a lot of new stuff to be released about a week before a major party, so just vote before that date. You should note, that it is NOT possible to vote for issue 18 AT the party! ANY votes, news, advertise- ments etc., which we get at the party, will be included in issue 19, released around March 1st. «Brush/SD3» -------------------------------------- To all Voters: SOME of you really have a weird way of voting! A Vote like 'Best Graphician: The one who draws all those little pictures' surely speaks for itself (we actually got such a vote this time!)! Votes like 'Best Musician: The one who did the music in...' weren't rare this time! Of course we will, in some cases, be able to 'guess' what you mean, but as we do NOT see all productions, please DON'T vote like this. Anyway, not knowing the name of your favourite musician is a little strange, don't you think? Especially the musicdisk- and slideshow-charts have got some 'weird' votes. Just voting for 'Anarchy' as best musicdisk or 'Acme' as best slideshow doesn't give us a clue as to what you mean. Writing e.g. 'Phenomena Music Disk' isn't much better. Of course in some cases, like 'Kefrens Slideshow', we just happen to know that there's only one it can be, but if we haven't seen them, how are we supposed to know if e.g. 'Parasite Music Disk' and 'Parasite - "Imperial Tunes"' are the same, or if Parasite actually released two musicdisks, of which one was just called 'Music Disk' (Well, THAT one we know as well, but it's just an example)? Like we wrote last time: If you don't remember the name of your favourite music-disk, which by the way DOES sound strange, just boot it and check the name. With about 300 voters in each issue, we simply don't have the time to guess who or what you mean. In the last issue, we asked about your comments to a so-called 'Mega-chart', that is, a 'Best Groups'-chart, but instead of being directly voted, as it is now, the groups should get points according to the rankings of their members and productions in the other charts. We've received NO response to this, so that's probably not something you want, or what? (This is a perfect example of the Danish expression saying something like: 'The silent one agrees', meaning, that if you don't complain, you think it's good as it is! :-)) -------------------------------------- To all advertisers: On popular demand, we've lowered the advertisement prices. Now everyone should be able to afford one... Also the subscription prices are down, but for Scandinavians only. This is a result of the fact that postage from Denmark to the rest of Scandinavia is only half the postage to the rest of Europe, so we thought it would be fair for Scandinavians to benefit from that. Please note that Germans have to pay their subscriptions in D-Mark, Englishmen in Pounds etc., so don't start any tricks, like exchanging 30 DM to 120 DKR and using those for a cheap 6-issue-subscription :-) -------------------------------------- To Clip-art-drawers: Some of you might be wondering, where your clip-art is? Well, you should note, that when drawing clip-art for us, you may use 12 colours only (preferably the LAST 12 colours in the palette, but that isn't so important), and the maximum size is 304x176 pixels. A special one for Blizzart/Kefrens: Your clip-art was VERY nice, and we're equally VERY sorry that we couldn't use it. Guess why... «Brush/SD6» -------------------------------------- To some(!) News-suppliers: Some of you might ask: 'Why haven't you included our news?'. But of course you mean it as a joke, sending news to the wrong address only a few days before the release date :-) We're not saying, that you can't send news to all (4) addresses, but please use the 'Euronews' address (see the 'Instructions'-section) mainly, as they're going there anyway. -------------------------------------- To Gun/Intense and Slam/DCI: We're getting pretty tired of having to write this, but please note that you may NOT vote twice! Sending one vote-sheet to each of the addresses won't help you. As mentioned in the previous issues: If you can't remember whether or not you've voted for an issue (that is, if you can't count to more than 1!), don't just vote 'to be sure you've voted'. Note that these two were the only ones we can remember right now, several other people also tried to vote twice this time. Stop this, please. -------------------------------------- To Decca of Adept: Nice try! BUT, you may NOT vote for your own group or it's productions... -------------------------------------- To Gart of Bronx: You win our VERY unofficial 'worst handwriting'-competition. A LOT of what you wrote was totally impossible to read! Furthermore, you aren't allowed to vote for the same person twice in the same chart :-) «Brush/MountParasite1» -------------------------------------- To Mental of Willow: Thanks for the caramel! Even though mailing it had resulted in a minor 'Shape Change', it tasted great!!! Perhaps we'll introduce a 'best candy sent to the editors'-chart in the future, depending on the support... -------------------------------------- To Snowman of Byte Busters: Your letter was actually quite special: You're probably the only person who hasn't noticed that ads aren't free anymore... Do we have to write more? -------------------------------------- To Tin of Brainstorm: Thanks for your crazy letter, the news and especially the GREAT clip-art, it's really beautiful. Keep it coming! -------------------------------------- To The Worker of ABBA (!): Yours was definitely the LAMEST votesheet we have EVER seen. It is NOT funny at all, having to 'count', or rather, NOT count, that kind of votes. Stop voting, please. -------------------------------------- To Electron of Reflex: Again a VERY nice letter from you. We actually considered publishing the whole letter as an example for certain others! We've written it before, and we'll write it again: It's that kind of letters that make producing the Eurochart (or any chart or diskmag) fun! Now, about what you wrote: You want a 'headline font'. Well, check out this issue... We agree that the caching-like system in e.g. Zine and McDisk is very nice, and it will probably be included in a future issue. Probably not in the next one, though, as we expect a lot of work with the X-mas issue already, and furthermore, for some of us, exams are coming up. You also want a search-function in the News-section, "if you want info about a certain group". BUT, as the news are already sorted in A-Z group-order, we honestly don't think a search- function is necessary! -------------------------------------- To Adept: We've received more than one letter from you about a sticker-chart. We can only guess why you want such a chart :-). Anyway, we don't think it would be a good idea. As mentioned in the last issue, we don't want to increase the number of categories, and which one would you remove? We don't think that a sticker-chart would be better than any of the existing charts. Anyway, yours are definitely the best stickers around, though you COULD have found a prettier girl... -------------------------------------- To Orion: You want a swapper-chart? Still, we think that JUDGING swappers is VERY difficult. Imagine yourself voting in a 'best swapper'-chart, what would you judge upon? You'd probably judge upon the 'stuff' they send to their contacts, but actually, having the 'hottest stuff' is just about having a modem, or a friend who has a modem, and knowing the best ways of getting other people to pay your phonebill(!), so we honestly don't think this is a good subject of a chart. About a joke-section: You are of course always welcome to send us your best jokes, and we'll publish them in the next issue. -------------------------------------- To Accomplice of Paradise: Thanks for designing the nice vote-sheet. You want us to change the 'best pack disk makers'-chart into a 'best pack series'-chart. Still, we think a LOT of people don't know or notice the names of the packs, and what would you expect us to do with a vote for e.g. 'Paradise' in such a chart? As Paradise, as you mention, release 4 different pack-series, we wouldn't have a clue as to which one the voter meant. Furthermore, it is our impression that groups releasing more than one pack-series are a very small minority, so in most cases, it wouldn't make any difference.