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Re: Silicon Valley Dumpster Crawl: The ideal Hacker Holiday?

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From: george.p.cotsonas
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 1990 18:44
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In article <1373@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>, grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) writes:
> 
> Dumpster crawling, eh ? We used to call it 'shopping'.
> 
> And then there was 'heavy item pickup'...
> Every year, like clockwork, hoards of scroungers
> would materialize after dark...
> By morning, about half of what was put out remained. Ahhhh, youth!

a.k.a. recycling these days, respectable and environmentally-conscious.
Love that scrounging, love that crawling; done my share, too.

-- 
George P. Cotsonas
AT&T BL/CPL
att!hocpa!geopi
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From: geopi@cbnewsh.att.com (george.p.cotsonas)
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Subject: Re: Silicon Valley Dumpster Crawl: The ideal Hacker Holiday?
Summary: downright respectable activity
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.184401.19792@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 18:44:01 GMT
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