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How bout a raging inferno?

Later,

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That's not good for the environment, Danny...

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Originally Posted By: Mac
That's not good for the environment, Danny...


OK so let's not set the world on fire, we'll just start a little flame in your heart?

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surprised no one thought of this yet:



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Originally Posted By: PRearden
surprised no one thought of this yet:




I did that with two rather large boxes of 5-1/4" floppies during a recent move, it just didn't occur to me to share the fact. cool

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We don't like to throw anything away that can be reused or recycled.

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We don't like to throw anything away that can be reused or recycled.

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Same here. I think the question that's really on the table is whether there really is some entity that will re-use old floppy disks.

I would simply offer up the new old stock floppies on Craigslist for free. Meet in a McDonald's parking lot or something at a busy intersection if you don't like to have CL respondents coming to your house. My transaction of the sale of my MIM Fat Strat occurred at the McDonald's down the street from my workplace, as did my purchase of a DirectTV tuning box, a purchase of a nice 8GB Sansa Fuze+ mp3 player, etc. People that are used to buying/selling on Craigslist are used to this type of arrangement.

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Not a bad idea, but I'll have to make a fake e-mail address first.

The last time I put something up on CL all I got was spam. Someone e-mailed and asked a question about my item.

Then the spam came. All from different addresses from an IP in Germany. E-mails with pictures of scantily clad attractive young females who were eager to meet me. All I had to do to get one of these luscious babes was to click the link below and enter my personal details.

While I admit I did enjoy looking at the girls I didn't like the spam with the suspected poison links (of course I never clicked them).

At least they didn't send any attachments that had to be deleted.

So I started sending e-mails to abuse at the ISPs where the spams came from, gmx.com and corp.gmx.com.

One by one they closed the spam accounts, and one by one the spammers opened new accounts at the same ISP. Eventually they must have figured out who was causing them to open new accounts every day and that spam stopped.

So when I do anything at CL, I open a dummy account and then close it when the ad expires.

Sounds easier just to erase them and drop them off at Goodwill.

I suppose I should keep a dozen or two. My hardware sample player uses them and so does my i3, although I can't remember the last time I fed a disk into the i3.

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Too many criminals on the craigslist...

A handful or two of floppies ain't worth it IMHO.


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+1 to that, Mac!

Although I'll miss the pretty girls frown

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