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From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: A *nice* place for Usenix conventions?
Message-ID: <1991Jun30.152630.29144@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 91 15:26:30 GMT
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sfreed@ariel.unm.edu writes:
}fingerhu@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) writes:
}>New Orleans (where I attended a POPL conf. in the vieux carre'), Santa Fe,
}>                                                                 ~~~~~~~~
}You've got to be joking. It's a nice town, I go there often, but it's not
}nearly large enough for a Usenix convention. It doesn't even have an
}airport.

Of course, you could consider one of us poor inland states ... Des Moines
(pop ~1/3M) has a brand new convention center, an international airport,
and (if you don't come Grand Prix week) hotel rooms, restaurants, bars,
movies, & shopping -- all connected by a climate-controlled skywalk system.
And no doubt, more reasonably priced.

John "No, I don't work for the Chamber of Commerce"