We welcome serious proposals for hosting future meetings of the FC
conference at locations other than Anguilla. If you would like to
submit one, please contact Adam Shostack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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> At 11:36 PM -0800 2/7/00, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> >>>>>> "Declan" == Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >Declan> That may be right -- I just got off the phone with American.
> >Declan> The bottleneck seems to be San Juan, and American will happily
> >Declan> fly you there on many available flights. You'll just have to
> >Declan> switch to another carrier once you get that far. TWA
> >Declan> apparently offers codeshare flights, for instance, so the
> >Declan> situation isn't *quite* that dire.
> >
> >TWA and Continental codeshare w/ Gulfstream on a 16 or so seat prob
> >between SJU and SXM. Functional, but the Eagle is nicer.
> >
> >American and (I think) Continental have direct flights from SXM to
> >JFK/EWR; there may also be one to Philly.
> >
> >But note that seemingly random day-or-flight cancellations have been
> >known to occur..... (Don't ask.)
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>
> These hassles are why many of us don't even _bother_ going to FC. Whoever
> picked the out-of-the-way island of Anguilla, where having a copy of
> "Penthouse" is banned, made a terrible mistake. The novelty of an island, a
> la "Islands in the Net," is what Heinlein called a "funny once."
>
> If I go to a conference, I go for the conference. Not for sitting on a
> beach, which I can do in innumerable other places, including a few miles
> from my house. I don't go to places which cost me $1200-1800 in travel
> costs on top of $300-1000 conference registration fees on top of pricey
> hotel fees.
>
> (I guess if I were still working and my employer were picking up the
> $3000-4000 costs, I might explain to him just how urgent it was that I go.
> But I'm not, and I can't write off such a trip. So that trip really costs
> me $5000-7000 in pre-tax income. No thanks. Especially when the paper you
> folks seem most interested in is being done by our neighbors and sometime
> list subscribers Miller, Franz, and Morningstar. Why pay $7000 for this and
> a few other interesting papers?)
>
> Now we're hearing about all of the hassles of getting to Anguilla, and the
> limited hotel space, and the effects of major hurricanes. Think of it as
> evolution in action.
>
> I'll attend FC when it's held in the Bay Area, where it probably should be,
> and when the registration fees are less than $300 and when the hotel room
> rates are less than $80 a night and when no journalists or anyone else are
> "comped."
>
> --Tim May
>
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