Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:02:57 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] TV trash talk, was Re: My report on the inauguration
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 1/25/2009 6:22 PM >>>
>>Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> wrote:

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>> I watched broadcast tv, the first time I've done so deliberately
>> since 1993.
>
>I think I've watched mine more recently than that, but not within the
>past year or two.  So I haven't bothered to get a converter box, and
>when analog TV is shut down next month I'll probably toss the TV in
>the dumpster.

Virginia doesn't have recycling for computers, tvs, and the like?  =
Computers etc all have metals that really shouldn't go into a landfill.

And it's sort of silly to trash a working - but for converter box - tv.  =
Perhaps a neighbor might find it of use.

mjw