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- From: mcmahon@tgv.com (John 'Fast-Eddie/FuzzFace' McMahon)
- Subject: Re: Danger Will Robinson! New Registration format for Symp
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.220907.16111@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <5710@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <1992Aug17.185327.534@decuac.dec.com>,<1992Aug28.184628.3849@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1992Aug31.165933.1760@cpu.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:09:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.165933.1760@cpu.com>, gwlester@cpu.com (Gerald W. Lester) writes:
- =
- =From your figures (which do not include lost income for the self-emplyed, at
- =least $2,000 at $50/hr), which I think are a little low, the $550 is 28-37%
- =reducing the fee to $500 would cut the cost by only about 2-3%.
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- What if we could go to $350 ? I agree that $25/$50 bucks is a drop in the
- bucket, but the Symposium price is a number that DECUS has control over.
-
- DECUS doesn't control airfares, hotel prices or the cost of food...
- those can't be fixed. But dropping the prices of items that DECUS does
- control seems like a good idea.
-
- =As for the
- =hotel, all of the cities we are using have lower cost rooms (~$25/night) in the
- =suburbs, all you have to do is drive or take public transportation.
-
- Agreed. I'd like to see these options stressed in the Symposium
- documentation. The more information we provide to attendees about
- how to do DECUS cheaply, the better.
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