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From: andrew@jhereg.osa.com (Andrew C. Esh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Mac Developers Conference
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.154807.18869@jhereg.osa.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 15:48:07 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.210321.24402@bwdls61.bnr.ca> <49714@apple.Apple.COM> <1417@radius.com>
Organization: Open Systems Architects, Inc., Mpls, MN
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In article <1417@radius.com> lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke) writes:
>blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) writes:
>
>}aruigrok@bnr.ca (Adrian C Ruigrok) writes:
>}
>}>They tell me May 13-17th.  Registration is Sunday the 12th.
>}
>}We won't change the developer's conference.  Do you have any idea of the
>}magnitude of effort necessary to bring that many people into one place
>}at one time?
>
>}--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"
>
>Am I the only person who found it rather odd that that big (expensive?)
>color poster that just came to everyone in our engineering deparment said
>nothing more than _when_ the conference is?  The most amusing part is that
>it has a registration form, on which you can select the days you wish to
>attend.  _HOWEVER_, _NOWHERE_ on that big poster did it indicate _ANYTHING_
>about _WHAT_ the agenda was for each day!
>
>Hopefully there's a more meaningful brochure / registration form coming
>soon...  The color poster was kind of silly.
>
>--Steve

I think they did it to get us to do exactly what you are doing: Run around
and ask everyone else what the deal is. You are providing advertising, and
you are targeting just the sort of people they want to reach. Nice trick.
-- 
Andrew C. Esh			andrew@osa.com
Open Systems Architects, Inc.	
Minneapolis, MN 55416-1528	So much System,
(612) 525-0000			so little CPU time...