Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!bikini!thoth From: thoth@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Gilligan) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: Usenix versus Uniforum Message-ID: Date: 9 Dec 90 19:47:58 GMT References: <447@camco.Celestial.COM> <12103@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Organization: Zik Zak Lines: 16 In-reply-to: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu's message of 6 Dec 90 14:09:34 GMT Ah, but there are more trinkets/m^2 at Uniforum than at usenix (and even more at the usenix IBM hospitality suite :). How come everyone "gives" away T-shirts ("gives" because you often have to listen to a speech about a product that GNU has had a better version of for years) but no shorts, jeans, overcoats or sneakers. I have a million free T-shirts, but never have I been given a pair of sneakers. (insert indignant snort) ---- down with booth-babes -- "Until it's on my desk, it's vaporware" (`it' is the NeXT) "Those who would trade freedom for security soon will have neither" B. Franklin "SHIT! I'm outta acid" (intense XTank game)