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- From: whb@att.com (Win Bent)
- Subject: Re: thoughts for paper presenters
- Expires: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 05:00:00 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:19:13 GMT
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- Summary: deja vu all over again
- References: <C0G07x.DAM@zoo.toronto.edu> <C0Hnq5.9DD@visix.com>
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- In article <C0Hnq5.9DD@visix.com> ken@visix.com writes:
- >-->On Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:21:32 GMT, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) said:
- > Henry> In a continuing effort to make Usenix papers more worth
- > Henry> listening to :-), some thoughts for the presenter, especially
- > Henry> the first-time presenter...
- >Practise in front of the mirror in the hotel room.
-
- It was just a matter of time - a few weeks before Usenix, Henry
- reminds us of how to speak to an audience, and someone responds
- with the stuff Henry forgot to mention. Just like clockwork.
-
- Please note that I am NOT against these suggestions! I, too, have
- suffered through bad speakers, and I remember one particularly
- scary occasion when I managed to talk too fast and had nothing
- to say for the last ten minutes of a half-hour talk...
-
- Perhaps Henry could write up something for the Usenix program
- committees to give to the authors of accepted papers or put in
- the "how to submit a paper" packet or something.
-
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