John brings up a good question.  The conference is really not any shorter,
it is indeed 5 days long, if you include the pre-conference seminars.  I
have just finished the room allocation exercise and my spreadsheet shows
265 hours of papers/tutorials and roundtables.  This does not include any
SIGs or the management roundtable.  The equivalent session-hours last year
totaled 264.  In Toronto, we had 212 hours of papers, roundtables and
tutorials.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
Hicomp America, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From:   John W Pickering [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tuesday, June 17, 1997 11:39 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: HP3000-L Lunch at HP World 97

I'll be happy to join you for lunch if I can find enough money to pay for
the more expensive registration and the more expensive hotel to attend
the ever shorter conference. Will you have a lurkers table?

John "coming up out of my hole for once" Pickering
JWP Systems Inc.
Toronto