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In article <1992Dec16.223503.6837@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> st@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Scott Taylor 3690) writes:
>>... 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...
>
>C'mon Henry, attending the talks != reading the proceedings.  Are you angry
>because someone did not like your BOF?

Nope, everyone has the right to their own opinions, even if that means
having the bad taste to dislike my BOF. :-)

A *well done* talk is better than just reading the proceedings.  Not all
talks, alas, are well done.  That aside, though, you could get *most* of
the technical content by reading the proceedings.  (Personally, I do an
initial quick pass over the proceedings to get an idea of which talks are
worth going to, and I'm very selective about which ones I attend.)  But
the talks are not the high point of Usenix, at least not for experienced
attendees.  (How's that for an elegant way to say "old fogies"? :-))
-- 
"God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry