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From: williamt@athena1.Sun.COM (William A. Turnbow)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Jim Joyce, books, vendor booths, etc.
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Date: 20 Jun 89 21:33:20 GMT
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In article <1989Jun20.162447.381@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>A bookseller can do what HCR did, for different reasons:  buy a "virtual
>booth", paying the fee but not actually occupying any space on the show
>floor.
>
>Cucumber Books was at Usenix (in a suite in the Sheraton) and selling,
>without (as far as I know) any of Jim's undiplomatic tactics.  I bought
>from them.
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	Hmm.  So you really think it is equitable to force someone into
paying for a booth they can't use?  Seems along the lines of forcing
a street vendor to pay for building space he isn't going to use.

	Perhaps a separate/reduced fee for a directory listing would be a
reasonable compromise for future conferences?

	Just as an aside, I would wonder about the business sense of a
business who bought a building, or rented space that they never intended
to use, but I supposed it has been justified in the past and will be in
the future, that "it was necessary".

-wat-