7 Jul
2005
7 Jul
'05
1:20 a.m.
In message <1120502180.10023.68.camel at weka.localdomain>
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Most of the stuff I get (albeit for the museum, not
personally) comes
from local usenet groups,
Tried that one - most of the uk.leeds.*.forsale type NGs seem to be full of
asshat spammers and such. Oh how I miss my spam-filtered cis-dfn newsfeed :(
or the university - it's at the stage now
I think I mentioned the "destroy everything" attitude the local universities
and colleges share.
where the local population seem to know to chuck
things this way. I've
only recently joined the local freecycle group, so I'm not sure how good
that'll be in terms of stuff yet.
I'm on the Leeds freecycle group - haven't seen anything interesting yet.
Landfill / scrapyards in the UK don't seem to be
anything like their US
counterparts according to what I've seen on this list - there just
aren't items there for the taking.
I've noticed that too :-/
There is stuff out there anyway - you just need to
give people a prod
every once in a while and get yourself noticed as someone who can give
this stuff a home.
Time to put something of a virtual classiccmp museum on my website then, I
guess.
Later.
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