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From: roskill@cs.umass.edu
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Subject: Re: Did you check out MacConnection's latest ad?
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Date: 12 Apr 90 18:00:10 GMT
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In article <2105@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>, jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) writes...
>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?

Well, my point was: My school prints their catalogs on more easily
recycleable paper than the MacConnection ad.  The catalogs are printed
on newpaper bond, considerablely easier to recycle.  But you are right,
the motive should make no difference.  Somehow, though, I feel that 
there is more cause to print something that will be used for a mostly
non-profit educational purpose than for advertising a single company.
I think the difference I see is in the greed factor.  But that is 
bias.

>(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

You know Jeremy, I think it is so silly to make these discussions
personal that I won't even comment on the above comment, except to
say that I consider electronic mail to be a quick way to transmit
information, not a forum for writing.  In future, if you want to
make a correction such as the above statement, send me a personal
letter and don't waste the time of people on the net with your
need to play english-police.

Damian

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