Re: Bottom feeders

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> I know that in the past we have discouraged the notion of a per day
> attendance fee because it is an administrative nightmare.  Requiring
> additional staff to stand at each meeting room to screen badges, ...
> But given how tight space has become perhaps a quick fix is to do the
> following:
> 
> . encourage non-addicts to only attend the days their working groups
>   are scheduled for by selling day passes.

This doesn't go far enough in our enlightenened market economy.
Seats are currency. 

Give each registrant a number of tokens roughly equal to:

(number of seats in sessions x no. of sessions)/(no of registrants).

(okay, perhaps slightly more - a degree of overcrowding is
permissible, and no market is perfectly efficient. Or slightly less - 
you want the tokens to be valuable, after all.)

Entering a session costs a token, and is collected at the door. If you
want to get in to a session, you'll need a token. Let the market do
the rest in the bars and halls. Watch as token prices increase
throughout the week!

L.

watch as people sit in place for an entire day with picnic
lunches and catheters to save their precious tokens, too...

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