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From: vnrao@cs.utexas.edu (Nageshwara Rao Vempaty)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Clarification on eunet.parallel
Summary: I am quite interested in parallel processing activities in Europe
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Date: 21 Jan 91 18:19:06 GMT
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In article <12706@hubcap.clemson.edu>, pratt@cs.stanford.edu (Vaughan Pratt) writes:
> 
>> 	We feel that some events, such as one-day meetings in the UK,
>> 	may be of significant interest only to a European audience, due
>> 	to the cost of travel from the US.

        A person may just happen to be visiting the place and may want to
drop by.  Knowing what is going on definitely helps.
 
> One doesn't have to travel to a meeting to get something out of it.
> Simply knowing the titles of talks in programs of one-day events is of
> *great* interest here for comparing with local interests, to stay
> calibrated on where our respective interests are converging and/or
> diverging.  All divergences are food for thought.

     I agree.  If some people insist on having a localized and private 
parallel processing clique, they are free to do so and I have no business 
to object.  I believe news groups, conferences, workshops ad one day meetings
are all public forums and there is no reason to restrict access. 

VNRao


"Knowledge is Power" -- Patron Saint of all Scientists 
    (Plagiarized :-)) )