Date:         Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:43:08 -0500
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (PHPPO)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (PHPPO)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: NESUG 2004 Call for Papers is here !
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> From: Ray Pass [mailto:raypass@ATT.NET]
> Hey SAS-L,
>
> NESUG is proud to announce that it has just opened the 2004
> Conference Call for Papers on its website, www.nesug.org.

... from which you should then pick the url/year:
GoTo NESUG 2004

before or after which you may (re)read:
Go To Statement Considered Harmful
http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95/

> NESUG has entirely
> (well, almost entirely)
> revamped its conference offerings this year

Ray, with all due respect,
you may wish you had redesigned
either    your web site
       or your web design team.

> If you are interested in presenting at NESUG 2004, please
> visit the website and review the new section descriptions,
> leadership team

> and abstract submission process.

in a word: don't

note when choosing menu item Info:

"(*) NOTE: there is a known problem when saving your changes
 - you will receive a 404 error -
 however your modifications will have been saved
 and you may continue on with exploring the site."

GoTo NESUG 2004

with a banner like:
"Some folks are experiencing difficulties
 with opening the Abstract form.
 If you do experience a problem,
 please contact the web team.

Thank you for your patience!"

Error 401 User not authenticated

Well, Ray, and NESUG et al web design team,
in my first job out of college
I sent out a data collection form
with one error on it.
Actually I don't know whether the error was
   the error on the data collection form
or having my phone number on the form
   to call in case of error.

that was sometime late in the previous century
before e-mail.

Have a happy day
while reading e-mail from disgruntled authors
who wish to submit abstracts to the nation's largest
and mostly successful
-- up to this year --
SAS User Group.

Ron Fehd  SUG author  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2@cdc.gov

Efficiency is intelligent laziness. -David Dunham

inEfficiency is web pages
that generate     errors
              and e-mail from frustrated authors