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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: list inexpensive hotels and hostels for conferences
Keywords: usenix conference hotels
Message-ID: <13373@ulysses.att.com>
Date: 10 Jul 90 16:42:03 GMT
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In article <1501@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>, maa@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark A Allyn) writes:
} In addition, since almost
} all of the conferences have people from the local universities involved,
} why not make arrangements to allow attendees to use the univiersity
} dormatories.
} 
} I am suprised that Usenix, which must have a lot of members
} who are not backup up by corporate expense accounts, has not tried to do
} this in the past.

Umm -- that depends on how far in the past you're looking.  Usenix used
to do that -- in fact, Usenix used to *be* at universities rather than
hotels.