TELECOM Digest     Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:46:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 401

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Katrina Rescuers Improvise Communications (Bruce Myerson)
    High Definition TV Starts Slowly; Developers Hopeful (Reuters News Wire)
    Microsoft and Google Continue Court Fight Over Ex-Employee (R. Stevenson)
    Breaking Glaciers Imperil Arctic Lifestyle (Jan Olson)
    Online Usage Plummets in Battered Gulf (Monty Solomon)
    Phones, Computers Coming to Astrodome (Monty Solomon)
    Re: RIP, Sussex Cellular (Isaiah Beard)
    Re: Is Verizon Wireless Sabotaging Older Cell Phones? (Isaiah Beard)
    Re: Dear comp.dcom.telecom Readers (Kevin Buhr)
    Re: Is Malware Hiding in Your Windows Registry? (Dave Close)
    Last Laugh! I Called You Last Week Mortgage SCAM!!! (Steven Lichter)

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From: Bruce Meyerson <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Katrina Rescuers Improvise Communications
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:55:08 -0500


By BRUCE MEYERSON, AP Business Writer

When the phones don't work, improvise.  That's what emergency
responders and civilians were forced to do in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina, which trashed the telephone system on the Gulf
Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi.

Police in New Orleans, their main communications system knocked out,
have been taking turns talking on a single radio channel with their
walkie talkies. The Mississippi National Guard even resorted to
ancient battlefield tactics, sending runners back and forth among
commanders with information.

And a local sheriff, Sid Hebert of Iberia Parish, helped keep an
ambulance company handling medical evacuations across southern
Louisiana running by loaning it a portable command center.

"He personally drove it to (our headquarters). He got us back on the
air," said Richard Zuschlag, chief executive of Acadian Ambulance
Service Inc.

By Thursday, nearly 10,000 satellite-based wireless phones had poured
into the hurricane zone to coordinate relief efforts by federal
disaster personnel and Red Cross workers, said service providers
Globalstar LLC and Iridium Satellite LLC.

But satellite phones were spread far more thinly among the ranks of
local public safety personnel and emergency responders.

Before the storm, a few thousand satellite phones at most were in use
across the three-state region hit by the hurricane, and perhaps only a
few hundred of those were in the hands of local authorities, including
at least four Louisiana Parishes.

Though government officials have never before had to contemplate a
communciations breakdown of this magnitude, it was not immediately
clear -- with $8.6 billion in federal money handed out to states since
September 11 for emergency preparedness -- why more satellite
communciations systems were not in place.

Without such handsets, the most drenched and devastated areas of the
Gulf Coast were cut off from the outside world in more ways than one.

The grim TV footage showing a collapsed bridge that once crossed Lake
Pontchartrain, one of the main roadways into New Orleans, make it
clear why evacuations have been so difficult. That bridge also
happened to hold the fiber-optic cables that transported calls and
Internet traffic to and from the city as well.

While every major phone company has been scrambling to patch its way
into the city and other hard-hit areas using alternate routes and
backup equipment, it could be some time before many local phone and
Internet lines are back in service to receive calls and data.

BellSouth Corp., the local phone provider for much of the region, said
about 1.6 million customers could be without phone service in
Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. The company said it was able to
restore service for about 150,000 customers between Wednesday and
Thursday.

In the meantime, emergency personnel were often struggling to
communicate as they dealt with desperate circumstances.

In New Orleans, police officers crowded a single frequency on their
patrol radios.

"That has posed some problems with people talking over each other,"
said Warren Riley, the deputy police chief. "We probably have 20
agencies on one channel right now."

Worse, with little power to recharge their batteries, some of those
radios were running out of juice. Riley said the police were setting
up a new communication system next to the Superdome and waiting for a
generator to fire it up later Thursday.

In storm-ravaged southern Mississippi, the national guard was doing
things the old-fashioned way.

"We've got runners running from commander to commander," said
Maj. Gen.  Harold Cross of the Mississippi National Guard. "In other
words, we're going to the sound of gunfire, as we used to say during
the Revolutionary War."

Restoring phone service isn't merely a matter of waiting for the flood
waters to recede and restoring power. While many cables may be
salvageable, the electronics that pass the signals across those lines
will need to be replaced.

"It's essentially analogous to putting a PC in your bathtub. It's not
going to work once it dries," said Jim Gerace, a spokesman for Verizon
Wireless.

Associated Press Writers Jennifer Kerr, Brian Skoloff and Brett Martel
contributed to this report.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. 

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From: van Grinsven and Prodhan <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: High Definition TV Starts Slowly, Makers Hopeful
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:57:50 -0500


By Lucas van Grinsven and Georgina Prodhan

Armin Schoenfelder would love to buy a television set that is ready
for high definition broadcasts but the German engineer wants to spend
no more than 900 euros, while the sets start at twice his budget.

"Sure I'm interested, but I'm looking at the prices," the 68-year-old
said as he browsed at the Saturn electronics store in Frankfurt.

Salesman Mathias Kerscher, 25, is not convinced about high definition
television (HDTV) yet, because no German channel is broadcasting in the
high-quality format yet. "Until there's a better signal, I don't see any
point," he said.

The two men illustrate the hurdles the consumer electronics industry
must overcome to promote HDTV: a weak European economy and lack of
high-quality broadcasts.

Yet at the bi-annual consumer electronics trade show IFA in Berlin,
once the launch platform for DVD, big TV set producers draw confidence
from market research that suggests HDTV may grow faster than
black-and-white television did.

It took 25 years for 80 percent of households to own a black-and-white
TV, a percentage forecast to be hit within 15 years by "High Def"
households. It took color TV some 21 years, according to a study by
Euroconsult and NPA Conseil.

Consumers are now much quicker to pick up the latest gadgets to
receive TV broadcasts. In France, it took only five years before 2
million homes had purchased a flat TV, a period after which barely 0.5
million homes had a color TV.

Flat screens are not equivalent to HDTV but many of the new plasma and
liquid crystal display (LCD) sets are able to reflect the 1080
viewable lines of HDTV, creating a picture that has five times more
detail than standard definition television.

LONG TIME COMING

Unlike the picture quality of HDTV, the launch date of the technology
is far from razor sharp.

Research began in the United States as early as 1970 and became serious
in 1974 with the HDTV study of the International Telecommunications Union.
It took nearly two decades to set a world standard, after which the United
States kicked off the change-over.

In Europe, the electronics industry and the European Union agreed in
1992 to start HDTV as soon as 1999 but the first channel began service
in 2004 and 1080 will remain the only one until joined by Germany's
premium channel Premiere in November.

"There has been a widespread view in the industry that HDTV itself has
failed," a working paper by the European Commission said in 2004.

One reason the first incarnation of HDTV was late was that the
industry first planned an analog version and then realised it had to
shift to digital, which makes more efficient use of radio spectrum and
network capacity.

"I share the sense of frustration that it's been slow to happen, but
the wave has begun," the European president of consumer electronics
giant and TV market leader Sony Corp. Chris Deering, told Reuters.

U.S. LEADS

The United States has led the charge to HDTV and 10 percent of homes
are ready for the new technology. Government regulation and HDTV
broadcast targets have contributed to this achievement, while Europe
has decided to let the market set the pace.

"The market has to drive it in Europe, more than in other places,"
Deering said.

The soccer World Cup may give HDTV the boost it has been waiting for,
said Premiere's head Georg Kofler.

"Ahead of the 1974 World Cup, many TV households swapped their
black-and-white TV sets for a color TV. We are expecting a similar
drive through next year's World Cup," Kofler said at a news conference
at IFA.

Booz Allen Hamilton consultants expect Europe to cross the 10 percent
penetration mark in 2008. This is a significant threshold, because it
brings a HDTV set close to every home.

"All we need is a set on every block, so people can see what it's
like, at the neighbors," Deering said, adding that he is more bullish
than even his own company, which expects aggregated market sales of 20
million "HD ready" sets by 2008.

"I think it will happen at an accelerated pace, with initiatives such
as those of Sky in the United Kingdom, which has very big plans for
HDTV. There are also initiatives in France, Germany, Italy and also by
the BBC in Britain. Britain will probably be one the early adopters,
and a lot of broadcasters look and learn from the BBC," he said.

HDTV may be adopted quicker in Europe than in the United States
because of recording equipment such as the new generation of
high-density DVD recorders, HD DVD and Blu-ray.

Rapid adoption by broadcasters will finally push European TV producers
to start using HDTV recording equipment, which is already a pre-
requisite for U.S.-based TV producers -- 70 percent of U.S. prime-time
broadcasts are in HDTV.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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From: Reed Stevenson <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Microsoft Sues Google Over Ex-Employee
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:57:28 -0500


By Reed Stevenson

Microsoft Corp. asked a county judge on Friday to stop its newest
rival Google Inc. from hiring a senior executive familiar with the
world's largest software maker's plans in China.

Microsoft, which already won a temporary restraining order last month
to stop former vice president Kai-Fu Lee from starting his job at
Google, stepped up its efforts to block Lee from working at Google by
asking King County Superior Court Judge Steven Gonzalez for a
preliminary injunction against hiring Lee.

Microsoft argued in its motion that Lee, the former head of its
Beijing research and development center, is violating a non-compete
contract that he signed with Microsoft because he has intimate
knowledge of Microsoft's operations in China, its competitive strategy
against Google and recruiting efforts.

"Allowing Dr. Lee to 'turn on a dime' and use this highly confidential
information to do directly competing work for Google would undermine
the most basic purpose of Dr. Lee's non-compete and non-disclosure
promises to Microsoft," Microsoft argued in the court documents.

Google disagreed, saying that Microsoft was "behaving as if they own
Kai-Fu."

"Kai-Fu wanted to work at Google, he told us that and we hired
him. There's nothing illegal about that, that's fair game," Google's
associate general counsel Nicole Wong, said in an e-mailed statement,
"He's not going to work on anything at Google that is competitive with
what he did at Microsoft."

Microsoft and Google are locked in competition over search and other
Web-based technologies, as well as for top software talent.

Google plans to open a new facility in China later this year to
develop new technologies and attract computer science researchers. A
final location has not yet been chosen.

Lee, a former Carnegie Mellon University researcher who previously
worked for Apple Computer Inc., most recently oversaw groups at
Microsoft developing speech recognition and other interactive
technologies for computers.

Google, based in Mountain View, California, counter-sued in its home
state last month to block Microsoft's lawsuit and was set to contest
the temporary restraining order next week in Washington state.

The trial is scheduled for January 9, 2006, but Microsoft said that it
is trying to fast-track legal proceedings because its non-compete
contract with Lee is only effective for one year after his last day at
Microsoft, which was July 18."

Microsoft argued in Friday's filing that Lee had begun working with
Google well before his last working day at Microsoft's headquarters in
Redmond, Washington.

"As a senior Microsoft executive, Dr. Lee had frequent access to
highly confidential competitive plans including plans to compete with
Google," Microsoft said in its motion.

According to Microsoft, Lee attended an internal briefing at Microsoft
on March 24 for the software giant's top executives entitled "The
Google Challenge" which Microsoft described as "highly confidential."

Microsoft also detailed in its motion the pay package that Lee
negotiated with Google, which was worth over $10 million, including a
$2.5 million signing bonus, a $250,000 yearly salary, stock options
worth more than $5 million and other perks.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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From: Jan M. Olson <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Breaking Glaciers Imperil Arctic Lifestyle
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:59:49 -0500


By JAN M. OLSEN, Associated Press Writer

Watching the gargantuan chunks of ice break off the Sermeq Kujalleq
glacier and thunder into an Arctic fjord is a spectacular sight.

To Greenland's Inuit population, it is also deeply worrisome. The
frequency and size of the crumbling blocks are a powerful reminder
that the ice sheet covering the world's largest island is thinning,
which scientists say is one of the most glaring examples of global
warming.

"In the past we could walk on the ice in the fjord between the
icebergs for a six-month period during the winter, drill holes and
fish," said Joern Kristensen, a local fisherman. "We can only do that
for a month or two now.  It has become more difficult to drive dogs
sleds because the ice between the icebergs isn't solid anymore."

In 2002-2003, a six-mile stretch of the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier broke
off and drifted silently out of the fjord near Ilulissat, Greenland's
third largest town, 155 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

Although Greenland is the prime example, scientists say the effects of
climate change are noticeable throughout the Arctic region, from the
northward spread of spruce beetles in Canada to melting permafrost in
Alaska and northern Russia.

Indigenous people who for centuries have adapted their lives to the
cold, fear that the changes, however small and gradual, could have a
profound impact.

"We can see a trend that the fall is getting longer and wetter," said
Lars-Anders Baer, a political leader for Sweden's indigenous Sami, a
once-nomadic people with a long tradition of reindeer herding.

"If the climate gets warmer, it is probably bad for the reindeer. New
species (of plants) come in and suffocate other plants that are the
main food for the reindeer," he said.

Rising temperatures are also a concern in the Yamalo-Nenets region in
Western Siberia, said Alexandr Navyukhov, 49. He is an ethnic nenet, a
group that mostly lives off hunting, fishing and deer breeding.

"We now have breams in our river, which we didn't have in the past
because that fish is typical for warmer regions," he said. "On the one
hand it may look like good news, but breams are predatory fish that
prey upon fish eggs, often of rare kinds of fish."

Melting permafrost has damaged hundreds of buildings, railway lines,
airport runways and gas pipelines in Russia, according to the Arctic
Climate Impact Assessment, a report commissioned by the Arctic Council
and released in 2004.

Research has also shown that populations of turbot, Atlantic cod and
snow crab are no longer found in some parts of the Bering Sea, an
important fishing zone between Alaska and Russia, and that flooding
along the Lena River, one of Siberia's biggest, has increased with
warming temperatures.

In Greenland, Anthon Utuaq, a 68-year-old retired hunter, said he is
worried a warmer climate will make it more difficult for his son to
continue the family trade.

"Maybe it will be difficult for him to find the seals," Utuaq said,
resting on a bench in the east coast town of Kulusuk. "They will head
north to colder places if it gets warmer."

Arctic sea ice has decreased by approximately 8 percent, or 386,100
square miles over the past 30 years.

In Sisimiut, Greenland's second-largest town, lakes have doubled in
size in the last decade.

"Greenland was perceived as this huge solid place that would never
melt," said Robert Corell of the American Meteorological Society. "The
evidence is now so strong that the scientific community is convinced
that global warming is the cause."

Climate change has been a hotly discussed issue for decades, but
efforts to fight it have moved slowly. There is not even unanimity on
how much of the problem is a result of human activity, notably the
burning of fossil fuels, and how much of it can be attributed to
natural processes.

"We know that temperatures have gone up and it's partly caused by
man. But let's hold our horses because it's not everywhere that the
ice is melting.  In the Antarctic, only 1 percent is melting," said
Bjoern Lomborg, a Danish researcher who claims the threat of global
warming has been exaggerated.

What is clear is that the average ocean temperature off Greenland's
west coast has risen in recent years -- from 38.3 F to 40.6 F and
glaciers have begun to retreat, said Carl Egede Boeggild, a
glaciologist with Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, a
government agency.

The Sermilik glacier in southern Greenland has retreated 6.84 miles,
and the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier near Ilulissat also is moving at a
faster pace, said Henrik Hoejmark Thomsen of the geological survey.

In 1967, satellite imagery measured it moving at 4.3 miles per
year. In 2003, it was twice that -- 8.1 miles per year.

"What exactly happened, we don't know but it appears to be the effect
of climate change," said Hoejmark Thomsen.

Last month, U.S. scientists issued a report saying the rate of ice
melting in the Arctic is increasing and within a century could lead to
summertime ice-free ocean conditions not seen in the area in a million
years, but they also note that the United States will not participate
in efforts to stem the global warming. 

With warmer temperatures, some bacteria, plants and animals could
disappear, while others will grow and thrive. Polar bears and other
animals that depend on sea ice to breed and forage are at risk,
scientists say. There are fears that polar bears and some seal species
could face extinction in just decades because of global warming.

The thinning of the sea ice presents a danger to both humans and polar
bears, said Peter Ewins, director of Arctic conservations for the
World Wildlife Fund Canada.

"The polar bears need to be there to catch enough seals to see them
through the summer in open warm water systems. Equally, the Inuit need
to be out there on the ice catching seals and are less and less able
to do that because the ice is more unstable, thinner," he said.

When NASA started taking satellite images of the Arctic region in the
late 1970s and computer technology improved, scientists noted alarming
patterns and theorized they were caused by the emission of so-called
greenhouse gases, emitted by industries and internal combustion
engines, that create a heat-trapping layer in the atmosphere.

Inuit leaders, like Sheila Watt-Cloutier whose efforts won her the
2005 Sophie environment prize in Norway earlier this year, are trying
to draw attention to the impact of climate change and pollution on the
traditional lifestyles of the Arctic's indigenous people.

"When I was a child, the weather used to be more stable, it worries me
to see and hear all this," Greenland Premier Hans Enoksen said on the
sidelines of an environmental officials' meeting in Ilulissat last
month. The meeting ended with statements of concern, sincere calls for
measure to address the problem -- and no action.

The Kyoto Protocol that took effect in February aims to reduce global
greenhouse gas emissions. But the 140 nations that have signed the
pact don't include the United States, which itself is one of teh
biggest producers -- one-quarter -- of the gases.

U.S. President George W. Bush's administration claims that participa-
ting in the pact would severely damage the U.S. economy. Many
scientists say that position undermines the whole planet and they
point to Greenland as the leading edge of what the globe could suffer.
Some have suggested perhaps the U.S. economy needs to be changed. 

"Greenland is the canary in a mine shaft alerting us," said Corell,
the American meteorologist. "In the U.S., global warming is a tomorrow
issue.  ... For us working here, it hits you like a ton of bricks when
you see it."

AP writers Maria Danilova and Jim Heintz in Moscow, Karl Ritter in
Stockholm, Sweden, and Beth Duff-Brown in Toronto contributed to this
report.

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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:46:58 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Online Usage Plummets in Battered Gulf


By BRUCE MEYERSON AP Business Writer

The statistics make it look as if someone just flicked a switch and
turned off the Internet, and that's not too far from the hurricane
truth. In the battered Biloxi-Gulfport region of Mississippi, where
about 160,000 people might go online during a typical weeknight,
Internet usage had fallen "below reportable levels" by Tuesday,
according to the tracking firm comScore Networks.

The number of people logging on in New Orleans, usually 700,000 on an
average weeknight, plunged 90 percent after Hurricane Katrina sent
most of those Internet users fleeing and knocked out most of the
telephone and electrical lines needed to connect any computer not
submerged in the floods.

On a more heartening note, comScore also reported Friday that online
traffic to the RedCross.org is soaring: On Wednesday, nearly 1 million
people visited the Web site, more than 32 times the average daily
visit during the prior week.

The hurricane's impact was also evident on the nation's long-distance
phone networks, where the number of calls has jumped this week.
However, with millions of local phone lines out of service in the Gulf
region, the number of long-distance calls that aren't reaching their
destination has surged as well.

 - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=51562492

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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:46:58 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Phones, Computers Coming to Astrodome


By MATT SLAGLE AP Technology Writer

Thousands of Hurricane Katrina refugees packing into Houston's
Astrodome are getting electronic access to the outside world.

Corporations, volunteers and nonprofit agencies continued working
Friday to install telephones and Internet-enabled computers inside the
sprawling former sports stadium in one of many efforts aimed at
bringing communications technologies to hurricane victims.

Astrodome refugees, displaced from the Superdome in New Orleans, were
getting 10 minute blocks of time to make free local and long distance
calls.

      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=51563478


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: See Mr. Slagle's entire report in the
TELECOM Digest V24_#400 from Friday, September 2.  PAT]

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From: Isaiah Beard <sacredpoet@sacredpoet.com>
Subject: Re: RIP, Sussex Cellular
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:14:42 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


Joseph wrote:

> If you go to http://www.wirelessadvisor.com and put in the ZIP code
> for rural locations such as in Maine or New Hampshire you'll see 800
> AMPS only providers listed.  Curiously for many locations you'll also
> see the company Nextwave at 1900 Mhz listed as well even though they
> have no service!

Of course ... Nextwave is the company that bid billions for PCS
licenses, paid the FCC only a few million and then declared bankruptcy
and held on for dear life to their PCS licenses, even though they
never lit up a single tower.

A portion of those PCS licenses were ultimately sold to Verizon  Wireless
(the deal closed early this year, earning Nextwave $3 billion).  But
what's left of Nextwave still owns spectrum, even though they're not
doing anything with it and haven't for years.

E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.

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From: Isaiah Beard <sacredpoet@sacredpoet.com>
Subject: Re: Is Verizon Wireless Sabotaging Older Cell Phones?
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:21:59 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


William Warren wrote:

> So, the questions:

> 1. 95% or 85%?

95%

> 2. Is December 2005 still the deadline?

Yes it is.

> 3. What happens to those of us on Verizon's network without
>    GPS-enabled phones (such as, apparently, the Motorola 120C).

Who knows?  It would appear that Verizon is telling the FCC there's
nothing they can do to force someone who doesn't want to swap their
phone to do so.  No telling if they'll be granted a waiver, or if
they'll be required to force upgrades.

E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.

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Subject: Re: Dear comp.dcom.telecom Readers
From: Kevin Buhr <buhr+un@asaurus.net>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 02:38:53 GMT


Bruce L. Bergman <blbergman@notchur@biz> writes:

> Oh, and it might be a "Joe Job" smear attempt instead, considering the
> post has the (alleged) full name and address at the bottom.

It *is* a Joe Job, and a ludicrously obvious one at that.  Tom
St.Denis is a frequent and valuable (if occasionally rather brusk)
contributor to sci.crypt, and some nimrod he annoyed is obviously
trying to cause major trouble for him.

> I will complain to his hosting company and to Google (his GMail return
> address) but it is much more effective if lots of people do it.

Please don't.  The message wasn't written by Tom, and it didn't
originate from Google.

Kevin <buhr+un@asaurus.net>

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From: Dave Close <dave@compata.com>
Subject: Re: Is Malware Hiding in Your Windows Registry?
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 04:32:30 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Compata, Costa Mesa, California


Elizabeth Montalbano <idg@telecom-digest.org> writes:

> Security experts have found a vulnerability in the Windows operating
> system that could allow malware to lurk undetected in long string
> names of the Windows Registry.

The answer to the question is, yes, of course, there is malware in
your Windows registry. But it isn't hiding; it's name is "registry".
The registry /design/ is one of the main reasons Windows is vulnerable
to so many attacks.

Dave Close, Compata, Costa Mesa CA  "Greed is to the moralists of the
dave@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359    left what sex is to the moralists 
dhclose@alumni.caltech.edu           of the right." - Cathy Young


Dave Close, Compata, Costa Mesa CA  "Politics is the business of getting
dave@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359    power and privilege without
dhclose@alumni.caltech.edu           possessing merit." - P. J. O'Rourke

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From: Steven Lichter <shlichter@diespammers.com>
Reply-To: Die@spammers.com
Organization: I Kill Spammers, Inc.  (c) 2005 A Rot in Hell Co.
Subject: Last Laugh! I Called You Last Week Mortgage  SCAM!!!
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:52:08 GMT


This one has a toll free number to opt out.  Give them a call to get you 
and all your net buddies off of their list and make some money for the 
pay phone operators.

Liquid Marketing Inc
101 Plaza Real South Suite 208
Boca Raton, FL 33432
(866) 872-6022

Of course their address is a MB+


The only good spammer is a dead one!!  Have you hunted one down today?
(c) 2005  I Kill Spammers, Inc.  A Rot in Hell Co.

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