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Re: Talking of paper...

A few years ago, I noticed an option in our backup software to output a printed report after each job (I already got an emailed version). I clicked the tickebox, and went home for the night.

The next morning, I wandered up to the main printer to see if my report had been printed, only to find that the printer was stalled because the output hopper was full. Yes, the backup software had printed the full report, including the filename of every file backed up.

Fortunately the output hopper could only hold about 30cm of paper, and I'd got in early enough to chuck it all in the recycling before anyone noticed.

I stuck to the emailed report after that.

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