Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.023 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.95; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:: [': 0.04; 'responding': 0.07; 'moderation': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'jan': 0.12; 'discarded': 0.16; 'fly': 0.16; 'planet,': 0.16; 'preserving': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject: \n ': 0.16; 'conferences': 0.16; 'sat,': 0.16; 'so.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'conference.': 0.19; 'subject:] ': 0.20; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'engineering,': 0.24; 'subject:/': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'towards': 0.31; '-0700,': 0.31; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'development.': 0.33; 'created': 0.35; 'science,': 0.36; 'doing': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'conference': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'world.': 0.61; 'received:173': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'name': 0.63; 'such': 0.63; 'field': 0.63; 'spam.': 0.64; 'series': 0.66; 'worth': 0.66; 'saving': 0.69; 'sharing': 0.69; 'commercial': 0.71; 'million': 0.74; 'co2': 0.84; 'presumably': 0.84; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'destinations': 0.91; 'enterprises.': 0.91; 'indonesia': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: [Call for Paper - SCOPUS/ISI THOMSON] ICESTI 2014, September 10-13, 2014, Kuta Bali - Indonesia Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 16:47:00 -0400 References: <184a15eb-e2ba-4f22-91ea-c833c640c724@googlegroups.com> <536525f5$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-75-254-207.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: <536525f5$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1399150079 news.xs4all.nl 2893 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:32945 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.franciliens.net!feed.ac-versailles.fr!nerim.net!novso.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:70901 On 5/3/2014 1:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 03 May 2014 15:50:40 +0000, Denis McMahon wrote: > >> On Sat, 03 May 2014 06:51:02 -0700, icesti2014editor wrote: >> >>> sharing best practice in the field of Engineering, Science, and >>> Technology towards sustainable development. >> >>> The first event of this conference series (ICESTI 2014) will be held in >>> Bali, Indonesia >> >> Let's all fly to Bali in the name of sustainability and preserving the >> planet, and damn the CO2 created by doing so. > > Pennywise and pound-foolish perhaps? If spending a few thousand tonnes of > CO2 enables the saving of a few million tonnes, I think that would be > well worth it. > > Of course, Bali happens to be one of the premier holiday destinations in > the world. Presumably that's completely a coincidence... If this had been held for moderation and I were the one responding to it, I would have discarded it as commercial spam. Many such conferences detached from professional societies are profit-seeking enterprises. I consider both the cross-posting and location as evidence that this might be true of this conference. -- Terry Jan Reedy