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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
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Posted: Wed Sep 19 10:31:34 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 03:24:33 EDT
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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!"