Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 06:17:31 -0700
Reply-To: Mark Hall <markhall@GOL.COM>
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From: Mark Hall <markhall@GOL.COM>
Subject: Re: KDD-2000 Workshop Call for Participation
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I agree with Michael---nothing is wrong with conference and workshop
announcements in my opinion.
Best, Mark Hall
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Wexler <Michael.Wexler@E-DIALOG.COM>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: KDD-2000 Workshop Call for Participation
> We all do understand, of course, that this is not a job request, that its
> not an advertisement for a product, not a sponsorship, and that ACM is
open
> to international membership? I'm not sure how you folks define
> advertisements, but if SPSS announces a new product, I expect to hear
about
> it here. If we allow SPSS product announcements, then perhaps we might
have
> the generosity to have useful announcements which help us complete data
> analysis faster and more accurately.
>
> I don't want to see this become a job list nor a spam list, but let's be
> fair about the lines: Conference announcements are helpful if they are
> legit (No IQPC or IIR, please). Specifically, the KDM conference is one
of
> the few successful cross-academic-commercial conferences out there, its
high
> quality, and since many participants are big fans (and customers) of spss
> and clementine, I for one am pleased to see announcements of this sort.
>
> I sincerely hope that we do see fit to include announcements such as the
> following:
> * Conferences regarding stats and biostats
> * New datamining software and betas
> * Data prep tools (even if they run outside the spss environment)
> * New ways to link SPSS to other analytical tools (vba scripts and
objects,
> tools with native spss links, etc.)
>
> Just one member's opinion, I defer to the wisdom of the greater list...
>
> Thanks, Michael
>
> Michael Wexler
> Director of Research, E-Dialog
> 131 Hartwell Ave. Lexington, MA 02421
> 781-372-3376 (v)
> 781-863-8118 (f)
> mwexler@e-dialog.com
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Lindsay [mailto:spss@MKTRES.DEMON.CO.UK]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 2:42 AM
> > To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: KDD-2000 Workshop Call for Participation
> >
> >
> > On 26 Jun 2000, at 15:25, Paul Bradley wrote:
> >
> > > KDD-2000 Workshop Call for Participation
> > >
> > > KDD-2000:
> > > The Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference
> > > on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
> > >
> >
> >
> > Bearing in mind that this group is for the discussion of SPSS problems
> > and is for people who are US and non US based, what is the lists view
> > if we asked advertisers to stop posting. They could advertise in the
> > newsgroups if they so wish.
> >
> > Sometime ago we stopped job adverts and the list has been better
> > without them.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Lindsay
> > Significantly Different! Research, Reading,Berks. GB
> > Market Research Services & Consultancy
> > mailto: davidL@SDResearch.com
> > http://www.SDResearch.com/
> >
>
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