Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: the sense of diskmags P m 43% by coctail^obnoxious b -#1- extracts of an article by coctail obnoxious (soz97dcwestudserv.uni-leipzig. de), published in the german scene-emag 'cream #4', edited and translated by shine diskmags are as old as the scene, but as the scene is changing, there is a important question, pointing in two different directions: who fulfils now the tasks, which used to be fulfilled by diskmags? and which tasks do diskmags have to manage nowadays? which tasks where fulfilled by diskmags in the past? a magazine can handle several tasks: it provides news, it informs about parties and other meetings, has presented interviews and the point of view of well known sceners. it was a kind of regular informationpool, which was necessary for communication in the scene. the importance was there - just because there were no their media for providing this kind of articles and information. that means: every scener who was interested in that kind of information was able to get them through diskmags or newsletters. during the last years, many mags died. if you take a closer look at this fact, you'll see, that it were mostely personal reasons for that: people finished
