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>Item:1709  About: Re: Did you check out MacConnection's latest ad? 
>Author: [<No Identification>] (*Masked*@cs.umass.edu)
>Date: Tue Apr 10 11:14:11 1990
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>kucharsk@number6.Solbourne.COM (William Kucharski) writes...
>>Oh, please. So they basically ran a catalog in the middle of MacWorld. It's
>>nothing that hasn't been done by a sampling of different companies in Byte
>>over
>>the years.
>
>That doesn't make it more acceptable.  It simply makes it commonly stupid.
>

What it means is that it is PROFITABLE. You know, money. The reason the
magazine and company is in business.

>>Oh please. I guess we should have people stop selling DTP packages, as I'm
>>sure
>>the number of trees used to make the paper for the MacWorld catalog was much
>>less than the number required to make the paper that was used for the proofs
>>from all the LaserWriters running DTP programs over the past month, let alone
>>the paper that was spit out of all the Linotronics. As a matter of fact,
>>better
>>get rid of all those printers or make sure people only use recycled paper in
>>them.

Actually , maybe we had better issue ration cards for paper. That way we can
send govt. agents in to check up on folks.

>It's exactly this kind of attitude that has caused our environmental problems
>today.  It's always "someone else's problem".  We here at UMass and Amherst
>in general make recycling part of our lives.  All the Mac/PC labs on campus
>recycle as well.  But for a magazine (one that often protrays itself as very
>socially aware) to print 70+ pages of one company's advertisement is simply
>irresponsible.

No , it is not "someone else's problem". It is yours , and mine. I recycle
all that paper they ask me two in my town, I collect my cans like a good boy
too. 

What is annoying that that environmentalists , (like every other group with
a good basic idea and a lunatic fringe) feel that they can infringe on a
right just for thier cause.  If that magazine wants to print 1000 pages of
advertising fine. Let em.

If you really want to help, make the process to recycle glossy magazine
paper more econiomical then it won't matter.

By the way .. how much extra paper does that school you go to generate every
year printing catalogues to high school students ? How many mass mailings ??
I would suspect that more paper about that school winds up in the bottom of
prospective student lockers every year ignored than that ad took.

(geee -- this is more fun than comp.sys.amiga -- we usually only talk about
toxic waste! (insert :-) 's liberally))

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