Usenix/Uniforum Hospitality suite

[Robert_Toxen at harvard.HARVARD.EDU]

I disagree with you strongly with your objection to Jim Joyce's posting on the
grounds that it is 'elitist' and and contains insufficient information and
that it affects too few people.

The last sentence 'Info will be at the Usenix desk' gives a slight clue
since the annual Usenix meeting occurs next week.  Those who will be attending
Usenix probably know where it is being held, which is Washington, D.C. The
Hilton is one of the two or three hotels involved with the conference (with
shuttle buses and such).  Notices will be posted around the conference
specifying the which room it will be held in (the hotels usually assign the
room only a day in advance).

One doesn't need to know who Jim Joyce is but one might reasonably assume
his bookstore sells books on UNIX rather than those on the N. Y. Times
bestseller list.

As for info-unix reaching others than those in the local Washington area,
out of seven close friends I asked in California (3000 miles from Wash.)
six said that they would be attending.  So much for the distance theory.
I, myself, will be travelling 400 miles from Boston to attend.

(The conference is January 20 to 23 1987; registration is roughly $200.
You need only to show up at the Omni Shoreham (sic) hotel in downtown
Washington, D.C.  You can take the Metro subway from National Airport.)

Bob Toxen
Stratus Computer, Marlboro, Mass.
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