I decided to ad this file even tho it originally wasn't meant to
be released.

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The concept CORP first came up as back in '92 when the ansi scene
was greatly different from what it is nowadays. The idea was to
compete with groups like iCE and ACiD. The group consisted of 100%
European drawers. The thought of releasing a pack with 5 drawers as
we did in January '93 is unbearable today and we only managed it
because we had a lot of old stuff 'stacked' away. After the first
pack came out I was contacted by iCE and we decided to merge the
group into iCE to form the iCE European division. The decision was
made because we realised we wouldn't be able to release a pack monthly
(which I doubt we can even do with our new crew, unless some new
talent joins the group). After being in iCE for just a wee bit over
a year I decided to join the group for reasons which I won't go into
now. The idea of putting CORP back together had been in mind for a
while but I decided I wouldn't jump out of iCE since they had helped
me a lot too. So in January '93 I finally left iCE and after contacting
all the old CORP members and talking to them about putting the old
team back together we decided to reform CORP. What inspired me to this
was because I had inquired a few new drawers about the possibility of
them joining the group and they agreed. So now we have 10 drawers
alltogether instead of the original 5. I admit that this might not be
a staff large enough to put out a monthly compilation but we will sure
as hell try. In my year in iCE I learned a lot of stuff about ansis,
about running a group and of the scene itself. The scene in the USA
is a lot different from the scene in Europe and the main difference
is that people jump from one group to another like if it was the same
thing as eating breakfast. I myself have decided to keep CORP as a
group where it is fun to be in. I wan't to keep CORP as a team that
everybody likes which is why I've decided 1) NOT to ask a member of
any team to join the group and quit his own group, I will accept
any drawers who qualify to the group, but the decision will be THEIRS
to leave their former group. 2) The CORP Compilation is supposed to
be a monthly release which I highly doubt it will be unless we acquire
new members but it is still meant to be an ANSI art release. The pack
won't be stuffed up with lame gif's, jpg's or modules. The only art
form varying from ansi will be ascii, amiga-ansi and rip(this is
to keep the pack from growing to over 500k). I won't accept any criticism
about the size of the packs because ansi files do not take much room
zipped. 3) Most of the foreign affairs will be handled via the internet
since communication is a very important aspect in a group which originates
from Europe and I wan't to keep all the foreign members and sites up-to-date
about what's happening, the easiest way to do this is by using the internet.
Of course other means of communication are also used but internet is the main
link.

                               signed. Genesis / CORP Founder
                               email: genesis@cute.cute.fi
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