RE: Day 2... -- MIDRANGE-L

Well,
the BOF was fun. Got to put names to faces, etc.
Unfortunately, Dave says this system went down. Hopefully he'll have it
up soon.
No newbies at the BOF, so we went and spread the word at CUDS.

 - steve

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> From:         Don[SMTP:dr2@access.digex.net]
> Sent:         Tuesday, April 21, 1998 4:54 PM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      Day 2...
> 
> 
> 
> For starters, let me do a little cleanup.  I may have stepped on a few
> good well meaning toes with my registration comments.  Didn't intend
> anything personal.  Sorry Jeff, et al.
> 
> Day 2:
> 
> Off to a stong start....the day after kickoff's usually the first busy
> one.  Sessions are running out of handouts and blowing out as usual...
> 
> Fax/400 hasn't the presence that I thought it would....is IBM going to
> let
> it die?   There wasn't any fax/400 that I saw at Expo...  And they got
> their usual well deserved swift kick at Soundoff...
> 
> Speaking of expo, if you ever get the chance, watch them tear that
> thing
> down!   ALso, why can't expo open at the same time as
> registration??????
> There's NO REASON why we're "sitting on our thumbs" between when
> registration starts and the expo opens....and I'm not going to buy
> "they're not ready" as a excuse...
> 
> Also, can they wireup a few workstations that we can checkin ourselves
> at
> sometime on Sunday morning????  When you send the attendee his little
> mag
> card, there's no reason to make them stand in a queue only to have
> some
> temp run it through a mag reader???   Seems like that they could
> streamline that with a early entry to expo...:)
> 
> Several of the expo vendors volunteered concern about the expo foot
> traffic...
> 
> Well, I don't have to worry about hitting the gym....btw, how many
> laps
> around the dome equal a mile???? :)
> 
> Soundoff was the usual....at least when I left it....  Al started it
> with
> his recap of last soundoff...and actually used the "sucks"
> word....Hmmm....  We saw some of the new marketing stuffs coming
> down...but, Al, I don't think you fell too far from the point of
> reality...
> 
> And it was nice to know that I wasn't the only one in San Antonio that
> has
> his comments screwedup in the grapevine before they got home....  
> 
> Off to Cuds!  
> 
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