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From: grob@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (Lori S. Grob)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Meeting Considerations
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Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 15:18:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 23 15:18:37 1987
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Organization: New York University, Ultracomputer Research Lab
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In response to all the general bitching about Phoenix...
Yes, it was hot and miserable and we all suffered BUT ...

It was an extremely good conference.

The reasons for picking Phoenix were obviously financial. Usenix
has alot of people who attend on their own nickel and I am sure they
appreciated the off season rates.

The conference itself was very good and let's not lose sight of how hard
people worked to make it that way. Even ignoring the high quality
of the talks the amount of organizational work that went into it was
obviously staggering.
While everyone is entitled to complain (after all this is usenix)
about everything at all times, let's not get carried away and overlook
the hard work that goes into doing this TWICE A YEAR and usually gets only
flames as a result.

This is not to say that I didn't complain alot in Phoenix. I did. 
But let's throw some bouquets at the people who ran this thing
(and who are undoubtedly reading this) along with the rocks. Okay?


Lori

Lori S. Grob (NYU Ultracomputer Project)
grob@nyu.arpa
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