Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.usenix Subject: Flame Re: Keeping costs down at Usenix in Dallas Message-ID: <4868@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 21:07:27 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4868 Posted: Sat Jan 5 21:07:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 21:07:27 EST References: <204@resonex.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 27 > The hotel rooms listed on the Usenix flier seem expensive ... This sets me off on something I've been meaning to bring up: ***FLAME*** It's obvious why Uniforum has more hotels booked than Usenix: a bigger audience. This does *not* explain why the Uniforum hotels cover a reasonable range of prices, while all three Usenix hotels are at the EXTREME TOP of the price range!!! I find it most unsettling that the Usenix organizers, setting up a conference noted for attracting a lot of us poor university types, ended up with three scandalously-expensive hotels and NO cheap ones. Especially since the Uniforum people, setting up a conference aimed at three-piece-suit-and-expense-account people, seem to have had no problem supplying a RANGE of prices. The low end of the Uniforum range of rates is about HALF of the lowest Usenix rate. (The Uniforum hotels are rather spread out, but many people consider this an acceptable tradeoff.) There seems to be a basic misunderstanding of the nature of the customers here. On a practical note, it would have cost very little for Usenix to include the locations and phone numbers of the nearest half-dozen cheaper hotels in their mailing, even if no special rates could be arranged. Those of us who have limited budgets and no knowledge of Dallas would have appreciated this deeply. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry