OT but useful if you use PINE (now FreeCycle again)

At 12:59 AM 4/15/2005, you wrote: I peeked into the Madison (WI) area FreeCycle list - whew, I'm glad I'm not watching that list. 2,900 members; Madison is ~pop. 208,000. From the looks of it, someone with too much time and space could easily consume both very quickly, driving around picking up computer stuff that people want to give away. If you could receive the list in real-time in your truck, you could swoop on the computer stuff the minute the person's posting from their computer. And apparently some items go that quickly. I didn't spot any antique gems so far, but there were gobs and gobs of old PCs and Macs and parts, even Powerbooks and iMacs, up to 1 Ghz PCs, laser printers, you name it. I was surprised by the new stuff that people were giving away - DVD burners, wireless cards, etc. I also resisted visiting my county's "clean sweep" recycling site, where once or twice a year they collect hazardous waste. This time they expanded it to electronic equipment. The paper said they hauled away more than a semi-full of equipment. The photos showed mostly monitors on pallets.