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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: They didn't pitch'em! (was Re: The Camel book)
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.191850.18898@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 19:18:50 GMT
References: <BRISTER.91Feb15181940@saratoga.decwrl.dec.com> <123266@uunet.UU.NET> <288@carssdf.UUCP>
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In-Reply-To: usenet@carssdf.UUCP (John Watson)

In article <288@carssdf.UUCP>, usenet@carssdf (John Watson) writes:
| > merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
| > >5000 copies were printed on the first run.  4700(!) had to be recalled
| > 
| > Typical American waste. 
| > 
| 
| Give to universities: A VERY GOOD IDEA.  I recomend CLARKSON, Potsdam NY
| for a couple of hunderd copies.
| 
| I would think anyone working in the state of Washington would get VERY
| UPSET at plundering our natural resources for something as trivial as 
| a smeared cover.  
| 
| Get these books spread into universities and open some minds.  Maby in
| the next decade we can stamp out COBOL once and for all.

Ouch.  Sorry.  My fuzzy memory attacked me again!

The *real* scoop is that they are re-covering them... *NOT* tossing them.
I got this straight from the, er, uh, Camel's Mouth. :-)

So the covers are getting tossed, but the pages inside are getting
recycled into the new books.  [Better, Tim? :-]

print "Just another posting correction a slight incorrection," # :-)
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