Announcements and Observations

A major government siege situation occurred in California in January.
No, we're not talking about the media outside Judge Ito's courtroom.
The SEC, EEOC, FBI, CIA, FDA, NEA, NAFTA, and UPN stormed the Silly-
con Valley headquarters of Vaporware Corporation on January 20th.  
The government was responding to complaints of rampant political
incorrectness.  Oh, yeah, there was also something about missing
government agents.

Most of Vaporware's employees were evacuated, questioned, treated,
and released.  A siege started when Vaporware CEO Luther Lecks and
Security Director Vinnie Calamari barricaded themselves in an office
behind a wall of America Online diskettes.

The tense standoff ended nine days later when the erstwhile captives
walked out of the building unchallenged.  Apparently all of the 
officials enforcing the blockade fell asleep while watching Super
Bowl XXIX on portable televisions.

Police later tried to follow a trail of hamster foam left by pets
belonging to one of the fugitives.  The foam trail was obscured by
four men in hooded sweaters chasing a white Bronco through the
Brentwood section of Los Angeles and the trail was lost.  LAPD is
reportedly questioning Reggie Jackson, Michael Jordan, Michael
Jackson, and all the usual suspects.
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DREAM FORGE BBS will go online by March 1, 1995.  A two-line Wildcat
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be V.34 Dual Standard eventually.
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The deadline for submissions for the March 1995 issue of DREAM
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