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From: jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Did you check out MacConnection's latest ad?
Message-ID: <2105@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Apr 90 16:10:11 GMT
References: <12770@dime.cs.umass.edu>
Reply-To: jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
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In article <12770@dime.cs.umass.edu> roskill@cs.umass.edu writes:

[much stuff deleted; then a comment was made on waste of paper by his school]

>Yes...that's true, but my school prints it's catalogs on newpaper quality
>paper (very easy to recycle), and that is serving an Educational service.
>UMass does not put out a catalog to make a huge amount of money (although,
>I will be the first to admit, there is money involved).  They are not
>taking out 40 pages in the New York Times Magazine to cover their courses.

It is rather unclear to me that the pollution and waste generated by a large
volume of printing is lessened by the purpose to which it is put.  Are the
trees chopped down to make the paper damaged less because the stuff that
is printed is advertising for a school rather than a computer company?
Do the motives of the printers make any difference?  Is the harm
diminished because the aims are altruistic rather than financial?  What's
wrong with making a huge amount of money, anyway - Apple do it (sometimes).
What does the New York Times magazine have to do with it?

>So there is quite a difference.
There is no difference.

(By the way, has your school not taught you that "it's" is a contraction
of "it is"?  The posessive of "it" is "its" (no apostrophe).)

Jeremy Roussak