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From: reggie@paradyne.com (George W. Leach)
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Subject: Re: Official Hospitality Suite Invitation
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Date: 18 Jan 91 12:34:44 GMT
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In article <1991Jan17.113808.10435@noao.edu> rstevens@noao.edu (Rich Stevens) writes:
>Wow, I *hate* hospitality suites that require an "invitation".
>Wellfleet pulled this at Interop and actually had someone at the
>door checking--if you didn't have one and didn't look right, I guess
>they asked you to leave.  If you didn't have one and looked OK, you
>had to wait to meet your area's salesperson ...


      Sounds like they borrowed the technique from the way Studio 54 in
New York used to select people who were allowed to go in back in the late
70's :-)

George

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