Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au> writes: > Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote: > >>On Montag, 28. Januar 2013, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: >>> * People should be able to select their room mates. >> >>IMO this is wrong/impractial: it would be nice to have if people are >>able to >>select their room mates. And we try to. But its not a should or must. >> > Could you elaborate? Aren't we talking about adults who make > decisions for themselves, particularly about things like where they > sleep, and the more choices and freedoms that are taken away from them > due to prices or beaurocracy, the more people will exercise their last > remaining choice, not to come at all? In the past this has always been on the basis of best-effort. We're now introducing this charge for room quality, which simultaneously reduces the tolerance of those that have paid (probably in proportion to how much they paid) and also ties the hands of the room allocation team, who can no longer put someone in a lower grade of room than that for which they've paid. If we've never managed to offer a guarantee that we'll allocate rooms in compliance with the hints given in penta in the past, it seems pretty silly to choose this year to try to do it for the first time. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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