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From: cgregory@ziggy.cs.uiuc.edu (Christine Gregory)
Subject: Re: Member or Non-member??
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 20:10:47 GMT
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In article <1991Apr23.171854.17789@nmt.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
" In article <7625@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> mike@raven.bv.tek.com (Michael Ewan) writes:
" >In article <280E1E92.4C41@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> cgregory@ziggy.cs.uiuc.edu (Christine Gregory) writes:
" >>
" >>Question: If my employer is a group (corporate, or whatever it's called)
" >>		member of Usenix, but I, personally, am not, which fee
" >>		should be paid for the technical sessions: member or non-
" >>		member??
" >
" >I had the same question a couple of years ago.  You yourself are not a 
" >member so you pay the higher price.
" 
" I missed the original posting in its entirety, but if you are there on your 
No, you didn't.  That was it.  :-)
" employer's behalf, i.e. they are paying for the trip and you are taking what 
" you learn back to them, then you are part of the "group" your employer paid 
" membership for, and therefore you pay the member rate. Just quote the group 
" number on your registration.

After I posted that question, I found this in the brochure (p. 18 under
"Technical Sessions Fee Schedule"):

*The member rate applies to current individual members of the
USENIX Association.                 ^^^^^^^^^^

My registration was sent in today -- with the HIGHER fee.
So, did my employers pay $50 more than they needed to, or not?

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