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In article <1992Dec16.223503.6837@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>, st@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Scott Taylor 3690) writes:
|> In article <BzBGLq.9J3@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
|> >Agreed.  But if all you are sent for is the talks, your employer would
|> >be better off just buying you a copy of the proceedings and telling you
|> >to read it.  If your employer thinks it worth sending you in person, they
|> 
|> I have never attended a Usenix conference.  I hope that Usenix-ites are NOT
|> as stuffy as some of the people who have responded like this.
|> 
|> C'mon Henry, attending the talks != reading the proceedings.  Are you angry
|> because someone did not like your BOF?
|> 
|> Why dont you guys just relax a little?


I have heard at least two of Henry's lectures--Awf & #ifdef.  I thought
they were both EXCELLENT!

I have found the USENIX conferences to be very well run--better by far
than the few others that I've seen.  Certainly, I would change a few
things, if I could, but I have found attending a USENIX to be a rare
and precious experience.  I agree with those who have said that it is
work and not play.  It seems very wasteful not to make the absolute
most of the time there, even if it is quite tiring.

If anyone follows up on this post, I won't see it, since my Christmas
vacation starts now, so mail me.  By the way, does anyone have a news
reader setup that can wake up periodically and capture everything in
given groups?  I've built xrn (using it now) and I guess I could tear
it all apart to make one, if no one has done it already.

--Fred

                              |  The surrounding atmosphere was so milky
Fred Feirtag                  |  I doubt that I could see for more than
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Washington, DC  20375         |  a lot to an Angeleno or New Yorker.
feirtag@wave.nrl.navy.mil     |  But to a Taoseno, such limitations are
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                              |                            --John Nichols