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From: eric@hippo.UUCP (Eric Bergan)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Meeting Considerations
Message-ID: <132@hippo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 12:33:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 12:33:57 1987
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In article <44000@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>, mo@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike O'Dell) writes:
> ...
> particularly when your membership tells you quite emphatically
> that the three most important considerations are (1) cost,
> (2) cost, and (3) cost, with immediate proximity to the meetings
> a close second.

	Is this still true? I noticed that the attendees seemed to
be much more "corporate" than university or self-employeed for this
Usenix. I suspect the membership is changing. Is cost still being
held up as the most important consideration? Not that I want to
start holding the meetings in downtown Manhattan, but they Hilton
and Hyatt certainly weren't that cheap compared to other major
cities. How many attendees stayed in the less expensive hotels due
to price considerations?

> And if Choice 1 fails, we could always rent an airplane hanger,
> 10 helium cylinders, and a billion balloons, catered with the
> canonical beer and hotdogs. (grin...)

	Sounds good to me...

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					eric
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