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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Who didn't make it?
Message-ID: <1989Dec9.191221.13896@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 89 19:12:21 GMT
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Peter Honeyman writes:
> i used to think that usenix was out of touch with its academic membership,
> but i'm beginning to believe that the academics are out of touch with the
> usenix membership.

	I didn't bother to renew my membership this year.  With the
comp.sources.unix archives, I find the software tapes extraneous.  The last
few conferences I've been to didn't seem worth the effort (Washington,
Atlanta, San Diego) and I can't remember the last time I read something
worthwhile in ;;login:.
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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"My karma ran over my dogma"