Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:03:26 05/18/04
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On May 18, 2004 at 09:36:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On May 18, 2004 at 09:22:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 18, 2004 at 08:53:01, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >> >>>>Right. How exactly would I have done that at the WMCCC in Jakarta? At the one >>>>in Paris. _NO_ internet access. _NO_ email access. Jakarta was a black hole. >>> >>>Fine, in Israel you _DO_ have internet access, and you _DO_ have email access. >> >> >>Fine. Nothing like _consistency_. Makes "planning" quite easy, would you not >>agree? > >In Graz there was Internet. In Maastricht there was internet. What's your >point? In London there was no info. My point is that "internet access" is not a given at ICGA events, while I can find it at any hotel I stay at in the US. That makes it hard to predict what will be available, which makes it impossible to plan. That was my point. > >In 1996 and 1997 Internet was not way as common and cheap as it is now. Almost every university was on the internet in 1996. It just isn't part of the ICGA/ICCA's planning for reasons I'll never understand. But even more important, the ICCA started a policy that would not allow a program to be entered without the author being present. Remember that? Then, after telling me I could not enter, they decided that rule was not going to work as a couple of commercial programs were not going to be able to enter, and they revoked the rule. Did they let me know? Of course not... How can I plan around that? The rules are not rules. They may or may not have outside access via the internet. Etc... > >Assuming there had been no improvement in this regard is rather, well, >stupid. Not on my part. Assuming that most places didn't have internet access in 1996 might be considered as stupid by people in the know, however... Most US universities have had internet access since 1980 or so, for a data point. > >-- >GCP
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