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Re: Any interest in used floppy disks?
« on: August 16, 2007, 11:28:27 PM »
I use them typically for anti-credit card solicitation replies - you can ram about 6-8 of them in the typical CC reply envelope, tape it shut and voila - you pay back the man for the junk mail.

I have so many backup floppies around from some BBS computers I obtained several years ago - they came with those and after having endured the tedious work of copying ALL of them to another Amiga's hd, they aren't of much use any more.

another alternative is to send them to GreenDisk, which recycles them (but you have to pay for it).  I still may do that with at least a couple boxes of them someday, but we get about 2-6 CC applications every other week, so Capitol One - bite me! :)

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Re: Any interest in used floppy disks?
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2007, 06:53:14 AM »
I agree that disks pollute more than envelopes, but not more than all those stupid AOL cds everyone on this site (and everywhere else in the USA) used to get with nearly every free computer mag and/or the weekly mail.

I figure since these companies have no compunctions about wasting my time and mailbox with their crap, I should return the favor.  Had I small envelope-sized plates of steel to put in the envelopes instead, I'd use those, but I don't - doh!

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