Is USENIX selling attendee lists?
Peter Salus
peter at usenix.UUCP
Sat Mar 19 03:06:32 AEST 1988
Despite the remarks in articles 334 and 335, USENIX does not
sell either attendee list nor membership lists. There is no
way, however, for the Association to prevent someone who has
attended (perhaps as a representative of a company) a conference
or a workshop from keying in or scanning in the information.
This last, in fact, occurred after the Atlanta (summer 1986)
meeting. A Canadian company took a copy of the attendee
list, keyed it in, and sold the list to vendors. It was as
an attempt at preventing this that the Association now mails
the list to attendees subsequently, rather than leaving piles
on tables on-site the last day of a conference.
This aside, I think it important for the membership to
know that the Association is not circulating lists,
selling lists, or giving away lists.
Peter H. Salus
Executive Director
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