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Re: I heard the owl call my name

Subject: Re: I heard the owl call my name
From: "Matthieu Crocq" matthieucrocq
Date: Mon Nov 5, 2007 3:49 am ((PST))
>     Posted by: ""  jerkabobber
>     Date: Sat Nov 3, 2007 7:00 am ((PDT))
>
>[...] After all, my contributions are probably equal to a molecule of
>a drop of water in a an Olympic sized swimming pool, but hey, I'm
>trying and I care. I'm sure all of us in this group feel the
>same.


I'm sure too, but there's also another drop of water we could throw
in the ocean by cleaning our e-mails from all the unnecessary quotes,
right?
I receive Nature Recordist's excellent posts as a daily digest. The last
one (#3720) contained 1572 lines of text (Yahoogroups footers not included),
but could have contained 475 lines with a little cleaning! Do we really
need terabytes hard disks just to receive and archive our e-mails? Sorry
to be off-topic, but information _has_ an environmental cost and we shall
be aware of it too:

- On the cost of e-mails
http://tinyurl.com/ytgc4b

- Software pollutes
http://digifreedom.net/node/81

- The hidden costs of PC waste
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/03/62562

Have a nice week everybody,
Matthieu





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