Re: "We did not know" is not a good excuse

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 07 April 2016 20:49 UTC

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>My apologies... bad example.   I was, however, thinking less of
>the city area to country area ratio than about the "probably
>only one plausible city in the country to hold an IETF-sized
>meeting" issue.    I should have been more clear about that or
>chosen a better example (or, more likely, both).  

Unless the country is so small that there's only one plausible meeting
hotel, that still doesn't strike me as a problem.

So if they said they were thinking about the Bahamas, that could be a
problem, anywhere else, not so much.

R's,
John