The printer room is a continuous disgrace.  Again, I've cleaned
up after others, thoughtless people who extract what they came for, without
paying any attention to the mess they leave behind.

	If you need to get a printout from the printer, fine.  But don't
rip yours out of a chain and leave the rest.  Nobody wants their printouts
looking like a used kleenex, or trampled from not hitting the basket.  If you
don't want to clean the mess, FINE.  Just don't make it any worse!  When you
leave the prior printouts wadded in the basket, whether they were that way
or you're just too damn lazy to fold the tail in after you snatch your
printouts, you are causing the very problem you think you're avoiding.  And
somebody else has to clean up the mess you should have quickly straightened, 
PLUS the disaster that will occur from the new listings that have nowhere to go.

	Now, not everybody does this.  Each of you already know if you qualify.
Many of us have a pretty good idea who the offenders are, even if they are
particularly careful to take the sheets before and after their job with the
identifying information.  (Q:  If you aren't doing anything so wrong, why are
you so careful to take these identifying headers and trailers?)  However,
the identities can be determined without the headers and trailers, and this
information could be made public, if that seems required.  We could also
arrange for your printouts to be saved til last, for example...Maybe we'll
take a poll over what to do about continued abuse...

	Incidentally, any printouts over two weeks old are encouraged to be
tossed by anyone who wants to.  They should be shredded, if there is any doubt;
just because they weren't picked up doesn't mean they're not sensitive.  A
quarter of the printouts in there were from 1988; it's a lot easier to find
your own printouts now.  And if you find that you printed something out, and
don't need it by the time you get to the printer room, please dispose of it.
There is a trash can and a shredding basket right there; it makes it easier for
everyone, including yourself.

	Also incidentally (co-incidentally?), a restatement of long-standing
policy:  IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO SERVICE THE PRINTERS, ==> DON'T!! <==
Ask anyone in the computer group; we'll be ecstatic to show you how, and
would rather do it ourselves than have the guy after you complaining about
how the printer is screwed up (alignment, ribbon, paper jam) and that his
mail message was deleted as it was printed.  Of course, if you can do it
WITHOUT screwing it up, by all means, go right ahead.  We can use all the
help we can get.

sas