From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0fec7122c9f5214,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Bob Crispen Subject: CFPs, conference announcements Date: 1996/02/21 Message-ID: <9602211404.AA01089@eight-ball>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140397049 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I don't know if this is possible, but it sure would save me some time in reading INFO-ADA if we could either (a) prohibit full-length conference announcements and the like, or (b) post them in special issues of the INFO-ADA digest. I'd even settle for a guarantee that the announcement was the last thing in the digest so I could tell where to stop reading (and no, you can't tell that from the TOC). Stop reading? You bet. Anyone whose funding permits attendance at more than one of ten of the conferences whose bloated announcements show up here has my profound admiration. And an announcement 1000 lines long about a conference I can't attend that I have to scroll past to get to some technical information is scarcely a welcome gift in my mailbox. Nowadays isn't it really an abuse of the net to post these enormous announcements and CFPs on USENET and on listservs, now that the Web is here? And do the organizers really want to give a first impression that their conference is kind of low-tech? VRML '95, for example, was very well attended, and never posted anything beyond a paragraph or two that pointed to the website where all the info resided (including registration via HTML form instead of those silly-looking typewritten ruled lines in USENET postings). I do appreciate the amount of volunteer work that goes into conferences, and the desire to get the word out to as many people as possible, but can't we be a little more up-to-date about it? Bob Crispen revbob@eight-ball.hv.boeing.com Speaking for myself, not my company