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From: wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil (Will Martin)
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Subject: Re: AT&T 800 Directory
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 From: Lars Poulsen <lars@spectrum.cmc.com>

>I get it [the AT&T 800 Directory] for free, too, and always promptly throw
>it out. ... it is a directory of "selected, consumer-oriented ATT-based 800
>numbers" that were willing to pay to get included. What a waste of trees.

In these days of all the brouhaha about recycling, I'm surprised you
admit to throwing the directory away. After all, if it is a waste to
you, it may be of worth to someone else. Drop it off at your local
public library. If that is not feasible or too out-of-the-way, at
least leave it at work, at a laundromat, or by a public phone
somewhere so that somebody has a chance to find it and take it. It is
doubly a "waste of trees" to get something you don't need and just
pitch it instead of making some effort to pass it on to somewhere
where it might be used.


Will Martin