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- From: feirtag@i5120b.nrl.navy.mil (Fred Feirtag)
- Subject: Re: bringing family to Usenix
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- Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
- References: <tommy.724347299@hilbert> <Bz9C3L.H7A@news.iastate.edu> <BzBGLq.9J3@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec16.223503.6837@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:27:06 GMT
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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. Are you angry
- |> because someone did not like your BOF?
- |>
- |> Why dont you guys just relax a little?
-
-
- I have heard at least two of Henry's lectures--Awf & #ifdef. I thought
- they were both EXCELLENT!
-
- I have found the USENIX conferences to be very well run--better by far
- than the few others that I've seen. Certainly, I would change a few
- things, if I could, but I have found attending a USENIX to be a rare
- and precious experience. I agree with those who have said that it is
- work and not play. It seems very wasteful not to make the absolute
- most of the time there, even if it is quite tiring.
-
- If anyone follows up on this post, I won't see it, since my Christmas
- vacation starts now, so mail me. By the way, does anyone have a news
- reader setup that can wake up periodically and capture everything in
- given groups? I've built xrn (using it now) and I guess I could tear
- it all apart to make one, if no one has done it already.
-
- --Fred
-
- | The surrounding atmosphere was so milky
- Fred Feirtag | I doubt that I could see for more than
- Naval Research Lab, Code 7120 | forty miles. Which might sound like
- Washington, DC 20375 | a lot to an Angeleno or New Yorker.
- feirtag@wave.nrl.navy.mil | But to a Taoseno, such limitations are
- (202) 404 - 8502 | a tragedy of our times."
- | --John Nichols
-