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DFW

(57,695 posts) Tue Feb 11, 2025, 12:07 PM Feb 11

Unsolicited headline in my in box today: "Melbourne, Australia, gave internet addresses to 70,000 trees"

I didn'thave time to read further, but I'm amazed that even one tree in Melbourne, Australia would even have wanted to know anyone's internet address, let alone 70,000 of them. And wasn't anyone in Melbourne upset that their internet addresses were being give out to a bunch of plants in the first place?

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Unsolicited headline in my in box today: "Melbourne, Australia, gave internet addresses to 70,000 trees" (Original Post) DFW Feb 11 OP

I had to go looking for this story. It's from the people who brought you Superb Owl - jls4561 Feb 11 #1

jls4561

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1. I had to go looking for this story. It's from the people who brought you Superb Owl -

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Tue Feb 11, 2025, 01:08 PM

Feb 11

Smithsonian Magazine.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-happened-when-australian-city-gave-trees-email-addresses-180955851/
They were picking up a story from The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/29/city-of-melbourne-prepares-to-see-some-emails-lovely-as-its-trees

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