Re: [SAGE] SAGE vs USENIX

[Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>]

At 8:43 PM -0800 2005-03-09, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:

>  Well, having gone to several of each (general and sage) over the years, I
>  can say that I'm pretty much conferenced and tutorialed out (but I still
>  send others from work).

	Regretfully, I've reached the point in my career where most 
conferences I might be interested in aren't very useful to me as a 
participant looking at the official tracks of papers, invited talks, 
and tutorials.  The "hallway track" tends to be the biggest benefit I 
get, and by itself that is not enough to get me to come to a 
conference.

	Now, if I'm a speaker and the conference is paying at least part 
of my way, or I'm there as part of a book promotion tour, that's a 
different matter.


	But I would definitely be inclined to send as many co-workers as 
I could, and I like being able to access all the papers as soon as 
they are online.

>                          I doubt that I do more than glance at ;login, but I
>  love all the papers on line that I can go look at, and this is my second
>  favorite list (Hi, Dave).

	I'm hoping to be able to do more than just glance at _;login:_. 
I've been a bit behind on my reading and haven't kept up with the 
last few issues, but I hope to rectify that, too.

>                             I'll keep right on subscribing to both. Really,
>  it's not all that much money, and I think that I'd like to see both
>  organizations survive.

	That's a statement that I support 100%.

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