merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) (02/20/91)
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," # :-) -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Intel: putting the 'backward' in 'backward compatible'..."====/
rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) (02/20/91)
In article <1991Feb19.191850.18898@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: >In article <288@carssdf.UUCP>, usenet@carssdf (John Watson) writes: >| Give to universities: A VERY GOOD IDEA. I recomend CLARKSON, Potsdam NY >| for a couple of hunderd copies. >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? :-] I think Clarkson should get 4700 copies of the covers anyway. :-) And maybe a dictionary? ahem. :) :) -- Rodney