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- From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Subject: Re: UNIX SECURITY SYMPOSIUM * BOOK HELP!
- In-Reply-To: vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it's message of Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:43:45 GMT
- Message-ID: <BZS.92Aug28165853@ussr.std.com>
- Sender: usenet@world.std.com (Mr USENET himself)
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- Organization: The World
- References: <1176@usenix.ORG> <1992Aug28.124345.11254@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:58:53 GMT
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- From: vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (David Vincenzetti)
- >Well, I am a student working as system administrator for my University.
- >I live in Italy and I have toi afford lots of expenses for my join to
- >the USENIX symposium. I am not able to consider your finenesses about
- >USENIX: I do not get any money from my University and the money I spend
- >is my own money (plus a very kind refund by the USENIX organization itself).
- >So the Sheraton is definitely too expensive for me. Sorry.
-
- David,
-
- That is fine, that really isn't our point. All we are trying to point
- out is that, all things being equal, it helps Usenix put on these
- shows if you stay in the conference hotel since we have to promise
- room blocks to reserve space for attendees, and the larger the room
- blocks we promise and actually fill the more the hotel reduces our
- other expenses (e.g. for meeting room space.) This ultimately is
- reflected in member benefits and conference fees etc.
-
- But we don't expect anyone to hurt themselves doing this, it's more a
- matter of a situation where you were going to spend a similar amount
- on a room nearby for perhaps some less important reason, we just ask
- you consider that our organization (it is a membership organization)
- does derive some benefit from people staying at the main hotel, and
- this helps us keep prices down etc. We just wanted people to be aware
- of this, I am sure many thought it didn't matter to Usenix where an
- attendee stayed.
-
- But if you are in a situation where you are a student or whatever
- please don't pay it any mind. It's more important to us that you show
- up at all, getting you the information you need is the real point of
- this exercise, everything else is merely details and suggestions.
-
- --
- -Barry Shein
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