Re: COMMON in San Antonio (fwd)

[Neil Palmer <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Snarfers" may have a right to a handout, but NOT before those who plan on
attending the session first get one.  If someone needs to wait until later
to obtain a copy it should NOT be the person who spent an hour of their
time in the session, but the person who stuck their head in the door for
5 seconds to swipe a handout (many of which may make little sense to you
if you don't sit through the session).


On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Mark Lazarus wrote:

> Dean,
> 
> >GREAT idea!  This was where I personally hoped COMMON was heading when they
> >started providing the electronic schedule.  No more classes with 50 handouts
> >and 500 attendees.  No more classes scheduled for rooms supporting 50 people
> >that then move to support the 500 that show up.  Just a way to get a rough
> >idea of what to expect -- response samples then could be weighed against
> >actual attendance in order to extrapolate more accurate attendance estimates.
> 
>  I agree w/ this one.
> 
> >Speaking of hand-outs, why not place them on the OPPOSITE side of the room
> >and not pass them out until the session manager begins to speak?  This would
> >discourage the "snarfers" and not distract from the session at all...
> 
>  I strongly disagree w/ this one.  "Snarfers" have just as much right as
> full attendees to obtain a printout.  I think that there s/b a base number
> of copies initially and then the ability to print (yes, print, not copy)
> additional copies on demand.
> 
>  -mark
> 
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