Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!abvax!iccgcc!herrickd
From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee
Subject: Re: A way to stop getting Spectrum
Message-ID: <2383.27639c4d@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 10 Dec 90 19:31:40 GMT
References: <1990Dec9.082717.868@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <414.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP>
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In article <414.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP>, thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp) writes:
>> (2) you are saving trees and oil by not receiving
>>     a glossy magazine which comes in the mail encapsulated in a plastic bag
> 
> About this point.  Why are the ACM and IEEE packaging their journals
> this way now?  I think it is a waste of plastic, and doesn't help
> the environment any.  Now that I think about it, I think BYTE comes
> that way too.  What is going on in the magazine industry?  Is it
> time for us readers to say "stop doing this"?

I thought this was a discussion between non readers.  I think
it is nice to get Spectrum and Byte with their covers intact.

dan herrick
herrickd@astro.pc.ab.com