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!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Throwing things away Message-ID: <4733@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 15:17:57 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.4733 Posted: Wed Sep 19 15:17:57 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 01:06:20 EDT References: <4715@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 15 Will Martin, you are in insatiable pack rat. We have enough clutter without saving untimely information or dumping it on unsuspecting lobbies and waiting rooms. Magazines are like net.news. I go through a lot of oysters looking for the occasional pearl and I through the shells by the wayside. There are some very good magazines that every issue is worth keeping but a lot of useful information is obtained from trades and industry publications (to which I include ad-rags like Byte) which are generally not worth keeping but occasionally have items of short or long term use. I'm finally divorcing myself of my collection of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. My greatest regret is that the local paper recycling people no longer make it worth while for the local fire departments and churchs to come around to take newspapers and magazines off your hands. -Ron