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- From: sims@magellan.mitre.org (Jim Sims)
- Subject: Re: Danger Will Robinson! New Registration format for Symp
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- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:26:44 GMT
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- In <1992Aug31.220014.15661@news.arc.nasa.gov> mcmahon@tgv.com (John 'Fast-Eddie/FuzzFace' McMahon) writes:
- >Let's see if we can get this back on the right track. I'm trying to
- >echo the concerns I hear from other members about "why" people can't
- >go to Symposium. I realize it's a complex issue.
-
- >I would like to think that people would be willing to exchange a
- >reasonable decrease in price for a longer lag time on the bus and
- >reduced (not eliminated) meal service.
-
- The bus ride was one of the *major* thing thatkilled Boslanta last year.
- There woulda been bus rides of over an hour to get all the DECUS attendees
- into hotels in the Boston area (after the DECworld bookings).
-
- >Opinion: It seems to me that in Atlanta we already brush up
- >against the 15 minute limit during rush hour.
-
- likely so... I dont think it's an absolute rule (this is DECUS, after all ;-)
-
- >I can't speak for function space, my guess is that the limiting factor
- >is the big rooms. And those do fill up during the Symposium. So I
- >doubt a cut there would be useful.
-
-
- It's actually *not* the big rooms, its the count and variety.
-
- >I heard the Symposium Committee polled attendees about this a while ago,
- >what was the results of the poll ?
-
- I dunno - none of this stuff I'm writing should be taken as "official
- Symposia committee propaganda", I'm just trying to add a few facts and
- some extra perspective into the thread...
-
- >Finding housing bargains is a lot easier if they are suggested
- >by official publications, or you have some DECUS experience.
- >If you are a newcomer, you are likely to use the housing bureau
- >(pricey) since it's the limit of the housing information available.
-
- actually, there is at least one bargain in the housing form this time -
- discovering it is left as an exercise for the reader (at least till my
- confirmation comes back :-)
-
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