Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls61!kratz From: kratz@bnr.ca (Geoff Kratz) Subject: Re: USENIX SUMMER 1991 Technical Conference & Exhibition Message-ID: <1991Apr17.145432.6211@bwdls61.bnr.ca> Keywords: USENIX Association Sender: usenet@bwdls61.bnr.ca (Use Net) Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada References: <1991Apr16.120732.13805@bwdls61.bnr.ca> <1991Apr16.154836.13590@cs.utk.edu> <1991Apr16.190826.21433@bwdls61.bnr.ca> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 14:54:32 GMT In article <1991Apr16.190826.21433@bwdls61.bnr.ca> kratz@bnr.ca (Geoff Kratz) writes: >In article <1991Apr16.154836.13590@cs.utk.edu> Dave Sill writes: >>Doesn't Usenix get a block of rooms reserved? Maybe Geoff & friends >>forgot to mention they were going to be there for the conference. >>Can anyone at usenix.com give a definitive answer? > >I'm glad I followed up! We're going to try again, and this time call >directly (our travel agent probably messed up/didn't know/something). Alright, we got in! Dave was right: you really should mention that you are attending the conference. Our travel agent was told to do this, but forgot/didn't: thus, they got the "no rooms" reponse. Tell 'em why your reserving, and there should be no problems (unless of course they really are full :-). -- Geoff Kratz Bell-Northern Research, Ltd. kratz@bnr.ca (OSI) Open Systems Ottawa Ontario Canada