Re: CFPs, conference announcements

[Bob Crispen <revbob@EIGHT-BALL.HV.BOEING.COM>]

Robert Dewar <dewar@CS.NYU.EDU> sez:

>I strongly disagree. The full length announcements are fine. What is
>not fine is the idiotic software you are using that requires you to
>scroll through them.

Amen!  Although actually the idiocy may have been mine for subscribing
to the digest while using a mail program that doesn't break out the
innards of digests.

>If you have Web access, why on earth aren't you reading CLA with a
>decent news reader, instead of using the INFO-ADA digest?

Uh, because our news feed is iffy at best and our ability to respond
through the firewall is even iffier?  At least INFO-ADA digest delivers
postings that make it through the vicissitudes of USENET to a higher
probability site than ours.

Anyhow, I note with interest that the very next conference announcement
that appeared on c.l.a was short and had an URL in it where you could go
for more information.  Were I a complete chucklehead, I'd put that down
to my benificent influence on the net.  Alas, I'm not up to that level
of boneheadedness today.

But it's evidence that at least one other person agrees that it's
getting on toward the time when conference schedules, registration and
so on can and ought to be conduced on the Web instead of USENET.

No biggie, and definitely off-topic.  Lacking any response from the
hard-working and ill-appreciated souls who manage INFO-ADA, I'll
probably drop it and try my luck with USENET.

Bob Crispen
revbob@eight-ball.hv.boeing.com