Manuals :Surplus Re: UK

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri May 25 18:51:48 2001

The federal government is the worst at disposal - first other
interdepartmental agencies, then other federal agencies, then state
agencies, then county, then eventually public auction.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Don Maslin
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 6:35 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Manuals :Surplus Re: UK
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 25 May 2001, joe wrote:
>
> > At 12:09 PM 5/25/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > >At 08:19 AM 5/25/01 -0400, joe wrote:
> > > >>The prblem with school equipment is the disposals policy.
> As they are
> > > bought
> > > >>with public money the requirements for disposal are very
> strict. In my
> > > area
> > > >>the policy is:
> > > >>
> > > >>1) Offer to other departments
> > > >>2) Offer to other schools
> > > >>3) Offer to other local authority departments
> > > >>4) Offer to charitable institutions
> > > >>5) Offer to staff
> > > >
> > > > The policy in the US is the same except there's no
> **requirement** to
> > > offer the stuff to the staff. Although mandy places do.
> > >
> > >And here, they're required to erase all software, and apparently
> > >any docs or disks also get chucked before the item is put up
> > >for surplus sale.
> >
> > >- John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Shoot! Usually they just pull and trash the hard drive :-(
> I don't
> > know what happens to the books but it's rare to get manuals
> with ANYTHING
> > that gets surplused. I've heard rumors that because of
> copyright laws (or
> > some othe lame reason) they can't "re-sell" the manuals and
> have to destroy
> > them. Does anyone know what the exact reason is?
> >
> > Joe
>
> I cannot say that I 'know', but my guess would be a combination of
> laziness and ignorance. First, the people who used the equipment are
> much more interested in getting the replacement equipment installed and
> to learn more about it. If they do bother to box up manuals, it is
> unlikely that they are segregated by machine or even generically.
> Second, the people who actually do the surplussing from the organization
> don't know (and don't care) about what goes with which. Far easier to
> palm them all off on some paper recycler, or worse.
>
> - don
>
>
>
Received on Fri May 25 2001 - 18:51:48 BST