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- From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
- Subject: Re: bringing family to Usenix
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.003607.8630@ulysses.att.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 00:36:07 GMT
- References: <tommy.724347299@hilbert> <Bz9C3L.H7A@news.iastate.edu> <BzBGLq.9J3@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec16.223503.6837@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
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- In article <1992Dec16.223503.6837@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>, st@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Scott Taylor 3690) writes:
- > In article <BzBGLq.9J3@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- > >Agreed. But if all you are sent for is the talks, your employer would
- > >be better off just buying you a copy of the proceedings and telling you
- > >to read it. If your employer thinks it worth sending you in person, they
- >
- > I have never attended a Usenix conference. I hope that Usenix-ites are NOT
- > as stuffy as some of the people who have responded like this.
- >
- > C'mon Henry, attending the talks != reading the proceedings.
-
- That's exactly Henry's point -- that there's far more to a conference
- than the printed papers, or even the oral presentation of them. One
- can go to ``converse, confer, and likewise hobnob with one's brother [sic]
- wizards''. That's the main point -- to be able to grab someone in the
- hallway and find out what's *really* going on, and to arrive, together,
- at a better solution to your joint problems.
-