This post breaks a number of my usual rules.  It relates to the practice of law.  It posts an email from a listserv.  I did not ask for permission.  But I think I’ll manage to live with it, as this is a *great* idea:

 From: Carl Malamud [carl@media.org]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 5:43 PM
To: David Farber
Subject: Recycle your documents and help save the judiciary

Greetings –

For IP if you wish.  Public.Resource.Org and Creative Commons are pleased to announce a new site that allows users to recycle PACER documents:

http://pacer.resource.org/

PACER is the system that the U.S. Courts use to distribute opionions, briefs, and other documents at $0.08/page.  The system rakes in so much money there is $146.6 million they don’t know what to do with.

Rather than waste all these documents and help contribute to the rhetorical warming of the Internet, pacer.resource.org lets users upload their used PACER docs for recycling.

And, since recycling may not be conducive to your lifestyle but you support the idea of saving, we offer a program of digital offsets so you can become a net neutral (sorry Dave) contributor to the public domain.

Carl Malamud

Great work, Carl.  I’ll be contributing, shortly.