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From: mark@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.usenix
Subject: Re: USENIX conferences
Message-ID: <5536@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 22:43:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 28 22:43:51 1984
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In academic computer science, we have a trick for recovering the
good old days of small conferences.  It is to have "workshops",
the price of admisssion to which is (among other things) a position
paper on the subject of the workshop.  This tends to weed out the
mere observers/non-contributers.  We could do this for a usenix
conference, somehow, perhaps.

Without something like this small conferences are hopeless.
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