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: Re: Flame Re: Keeping costs down at Usenix in Dallas Message-ID: <4895@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 13:28:02 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4895 Posted: Wed Jan 9 13:28:02 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 13:28:02 EST References: <204@resonex.UUCP> <4868@utzoo.UUCP>, <284@varian.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 25 > One thing that should be kept in mind is that the Usenix hotels are > all in the center of downtown, while the /usr/group hotels are all > near the InfoMart, which I believe is quite a ways out of town. I > don't know Dallas at all, but my guess is that it is not easy to get > around in the outskirts, so the money you might save by staying out > there would be eaten by the car you'd need to rent. Also, it is > possible that any cheap downtown hotels may not be the sort of place > that you would want to stay at. I agree that the organizers for Usenix > should have made an effort to find inexpensive accomodations, but > perhaps they did and didn't find anything they could recommend. I understand the problems, but would like to point out that some people (not me, fortunately) *cannot* afford the rates at the official hotels, and *must* find alternate accommodation, even if it does mean long walks or public transit or other inconveniences. The least Usenix could have done was to have somebody spend an hour with a guidebook and a map to identify a few likely-looking hotels. I realize that cheap hotels are probably uncommon in downtown Dallas, and that /usr/group got to the hotels first. But the folks who simply cannot afford $95/night are going to have to sleep somewhere else anyway; I am dismayed that Usenix ignored this completely. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry