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From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: conference refreshments
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Date: 20 Feb 89 14:47:25 GMT
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I suggest that rather than reinvent the wheel -- there's an old cliche, eh? --
the Usenix planning folks should talk to the DECUS Board and find out how all
of this is handled at DECUS.  DECUS has been handling 4000 -- 7000 people at
conferences for a while now.  The breaks work.  The coffee is even pretty
good. :-) But the point is, it all seems to work well.

Apologies if this has been suggested already.

Fred