Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Throwing things away Message-ID: <4715@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 10:31:34 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.4715 Posted: Wed Sep 19 10:31:34 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 03:24:33 EDT Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 34 Several times in the past month or so I have read postings on various groups in which someone mentioned that they read such-and-so in a magazine, but that they couldn't look it up or refer to it because they had thrown the magazine away. It is shameful how most people have been conditioned to throw away magazines. I subscribe to dozens of magazines and keep them all -- I don't subscribe to a magazine I don't think is worth keeping. However, I realize not everyone has a lot of storage space (and I am using my space up). Also, there are many magazines that might be worth reading or looking at, but not worth keeping. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU SHOULD THROW THEM AWAY! You can get rid of magazines WITHOUT throwing them away. Do you work in an office building? Take the magazine you've finished and leave it in the john. Someone else can then read it and either keep it or pass it on. Do you go to a laundromat? Leave magazines there. Same with a doctor's waiting room, a bus or train terminal, an airport, on a bus, etc. Leaving magazines for others is a good thing. If you can save them for a year or so, donate them to a book fair. If your local library doesn't subscribe to the magazines you get, give your copies to them. If you have a library at your workplace, lobby them to start a "free" table, where they can leave ads, catalogs, magazines, and miscellaneous literature that anyone can then pick up and take, and where anyone can leave their magazines and catalogs for others to take. (Always pull off your address label when you pass a magazine on. That eliminates any chance of somebody doing you dirt by sending in change orders, etc., and also provides a simple way to let you know that this magazine is one you are done with.) This doesn't cost you a cent, or even any extra time (if you don't make special trips to do any of this), and it is a "good deed" (a plus-mark in the Big Book up there). So do it. Will Martin "Make it last, use it up, wear it out, and pass it on!"