Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!ads.com!henry From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: Why not pick *nice* places for the Usenix conventions? Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 19:12:56 GMT References: <20809@cs.utexas.edu> <1991Jun24.095259.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <1991Jun24.191705.23847@convex.com> Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; Mtn View, CA USA Lines: 16 tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) wrote: ->Whether we're going to get looked down at by the hotel staff as much in ->Texas as we were in Tennesee is yet to be seen, but I can't imagine it ->being worse. i thought the last SF USENIX was pretty bad; at exactly some hour (closing hour) the waitresses streamed through the lobby bar (SF Hilton?) and TOOK DRINKS FROM CLIENTS and forced them out. as the son of a man formerly in the bar business, i know it's usually customary to let folks finish their last drink ... this wasn't an isolated incident, either; the attitude from the staff was obviously "these people couldn't possibly have enough money/stature-in-the-community to be worth our time." -- # Henry Mensch / Advanced Decision Systems /