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- Path: sparky!uunet!usenix!ellie
- From: ellie@usenix.ORG (Ellie Young)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
- Subject: Re: UNIX SECURITY SYMPOSIUM * BOOK HELP!
- Message-ID: <1176@usenix.ORG>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 18:37:22 GMT
- Organization: Usenix Association Office, Berkeley
- Lines: 46
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- In article <1992Aug21.093236.5182@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (David Vincenzetti) writes:
-
- > Please help me. I will join the Symposium and I would like having a list
- > of the available hotels in Baltimores, in order to book a room from Italy.
- > I would prefer hotels cheaper than the Sheraton, any hint will be higtly
- > appreciated!
- >
- > Ciao, David
- > --
- > David Vincenzetti -*- vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (PK available by finger)
-
-
-
- Dear David,
-
- As stated in our recent postings to this newsgroup, most of
- hotels located in the nearby area of the Security Symposium's
- headquarters hotel the Sheraton) are sold out. The Association
- would very much like to urge you and other attendees to stay at
- the the symposium's headquarters (Shearton), for the following reason:
-
- USENIX events place a heavy demand on hotel meeting space.
- What USENIX does is make an agreement with the hotel where the
- meeting is being held that in exchange for a guaranteed minimum
- number of rooms rented by attendees, the hotel will throw in meeting
- space and other services at no direct cost to USENIX. These
- contracts contain penalty clauses if we fail to fulfill our commitment
- to the hotel. The hotel industry is fairly close knit, and word gets
- out quickly about groups that can't live up to their contracts. Such
- groups may have trouble getting space, or may have to pay a higher rate.
-
- There are a couple of consequences of this arrangement. One is that it
- is important that when you make your reservation that you state that
- it is in conjunction with the USENIX Conference, and that you pay the
- USENIX rate, so we get credit towards fulfilling our room block
- commitment. (Even if you use a large corporation's discounted rate,
- it will not count as a credit towards the USENIX commitment). Another
- consequence is that a widespread defection from our headquarters hotel
- will lead to higher registration fees for everybody.
-
- USENIX does its utmost to get the lowest possible conference
- rates at the headquarters hotel. However, recognizing that not
- everyone can, or wants to, be in the headquarters
- hotel(s), we try to choose sites that have less expensive hotels in the
- neighborhood. We also encourage roomsharing (comp.org.usenix.roomshare
- is good for this purpose).
-