From editor@telecom-digest.org Tue Jun 15 20:56:40 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i5G0udY15880; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:56:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:56:40 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200406160056.i5G0udY15880@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #292 TELECOM Digest Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:56:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 292 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Acacia Sues TV Cos. in Patent Dispute (Monty Solomon) Feds Decline to Create 'Do-Not-Spam' List (Monty Solomon) Yahoo, Google, Others Disrupted by Internet Attack (Monty Solomon) SBC DSL Recent Changes and Soho Watchguard (tcnolan) FTC Punts on a "Do Not Call" List For Spam (Danny Burstein) VoIP Regulation Status (sophialeii@yahoo.com) VoIP (Charles Cryderman) Re: Be Careful About Quoting Scanner Messages (Charles B. Wilber) Re: Be Careful About Quoting Scanner Messages (jmeissen@aracnet.com) Re: Job Openings? (Chip G) Re: More Memories of Illinois Bell (Lisa Hancock) Re: Need Expert Legal and Medical Testimony for Lawsuit (Paul Vader) Re: CLI via CSTA (Siemens HiPath 3000) (Matt Hall) Re: Office Telephone System Recommendations (SELLCOM Tech support) Typo: Letters Reversed (Carl Moore) Re: Ravings (Carl Moore) It May be Time to Answer Call of Voice Over Internet (VOIP News) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:40:07 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Acacia Sues TV Cos. in Patent Dispute By GARY GENTILE AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A firm that says it holds the rights on technology needed to power video-on-demand services and streaming video over the Internet sued major cable and satellite TV companies Tuesday, alleging patent infringement. Acacia Media Technology Corp., a division of Newport Beach, Calif.-based Acacia Research Corp., alleges that nine companies are violating five of its patents, some of which date back to 1992, that describe a method of transmitting audio/visual content. The defendants include cable giants Comcast Corp., Cox Communications Inc. and Charter Communications Inc., as well as satellite providers DirecTV Group Inc. and Echostar Communications Corp. and some smaller companies. The complaint was filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco. Charter spokesman David Anderson said the company had yet to see the lawsuit but added, "We do not believe that Charter's services infringe any intellectual property rights that Acacia may have." Comcast spokeswoman Jenni Moyer said the company "vigorously disputes" the allegations. Other defendants said they couldn't comment because they hadn't seen the complaint or do not discuss pending litigation. The patents cover a method of transmitting content, such as movies or video clips, that is stored in a library, as opposed to images of live events. The patents describe a method of breaking the content up into blocks, placing time codes on them, compressing the size of the files, storing the chunks of data and then transmitting and receiving them. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41981814 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:41:42 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Feds Decline to Create 'Do-Not-Spam' List By TED BRIDIS AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration said Tuesday it will not create a national do-not-spam registry to discourage unwanted e-mail, fearing it could backfire and become a target list for new victims. The Federal Trade Commission told Congress that senders of unwanted sales pitches might mine such a registry for names. Its chairman, Timothy Muris, quipped that consumers "will be spammed if we do a registry and spammed if we do not." The commission was obligated by lawmakers to consider the proposal under the "can spam" legislation that Bush signed in December, an idea patterned after the FTC's enormously successful do-not-call registry to limit telemarketing calls. But the FTC concluded that on the Internet, unlike within the highly regulated U.S. telephone network, regulators would be "largely powerless to identify those responsible for misusing the registry." Muris said that, given the risks of consumers adding their names to a do-not-spam registry, "I wouldn't put my e-mail address on such a list." Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., the leading supporter in Congress for a no-spam registry, said the FTC's decision was disappointing. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41980833 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:42:41 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Yahoo, Google, Others Disrupted by Internet Attack NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - A hacker attack on Internet services company Akamai Technologies Inc. disrupted access to large Web sites including those run by Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Google, and Microsoft for up to 2 hours early on Tuesday, according to Web tracker Keynote Systems Inc. Starting at about 0830 EDT/1130 GMT today, a major "Internet performance issue" was detected, according to Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technology and operations for Keynote (NASDAQ:KEYN), which tests and monitors Web sites. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41979595 ------------------------------ From: tcnolan@optonline.net (tcnolan) Subject: SBC DSL Recent Changes and Soho Watchguard Date: 15 Jun 2004 04:46:53 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Hi... On Friday SBC announced that it was making DNS Server changes and to "please make sure your DNS settings are "server assigned" or "use DHCP."" We are a small business and user a router/firewall to connect 10 pcs to the DSL line. As of yesterday, we could not stay connected to the internet for more than 1 hour at the most. If we reboot the firewall, everything is fine again for a while but eventually we lose connectivity again. We called SBC but they say the line is fine so it must be the firewall software. And SBC would not say what specific changes they made. We use Soho Watchguard 5.1. I assume something in the firewall settings needs to be changed because when we reboot the firewall, we can connect again. Is anyone familar with both SBC and Soho Watchguard that has any thoughts on what to look at in the firewall configuration? We called Soho also and they just recommend upgrading to their latest product. Thank you, Terry ------------------------------ From: Danny Burstein Subject: FTC Punts on a "Do Not Call" List For Spam Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:33:36 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC New System to Verify Origins of E-Mail Must Emerge Before 'Do Not Spam' List Can Be Implemented, FTC Tells Congress "The Federal Trade Commission today told Congress that, at the present time, a National Do Not Email Registry would fail to reduce the amount of spam consumers receive, might increase it, and could not be enforced effectively. In a report filed in response to a statutory mandate, the FTC also said that anti-spam efforts should focus on creating a robust e-mail authentication system that would prevent spammers from hiding their tracks and thereby evading Internet service providers, anti-spam filters and law enforcement ... [ snippety snip ] http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/06/canspam2.htm _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] ------------------------------ From: sophialeii@yahoo.com Subject: VoIP Regulation Status Date: 15 Jun 2004 14:23:35 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com What is the Voice over IP (VoIP) regulation policy in U.S? and in CA? I have heard that it may depend on the type of call scenarios. For example: 1. a PC phone to another PC phone 2. a PC phone through Internet to a regular phone (in PSTN) 3. a regular phone (in PSTN) through Interent to another regular phone (in PSTN) Does FCC regulate all of the above or just one or two of them? Thanks for your help in advance. Sophia ------------------------------ From: Charles Cryderman Subject: VoIP Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:19:00 -0400 Reader: nitoy69@hotmail.com (Nitoy) asked: "Does anyone know if the senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation sub-commitee hearings on S.2281 (to provide a clear and unambiguous structure for the jurisdictional and regulatory treatment for the offering or provision of voice-over-Internet-protocol applications)at 9:30 A.M. on June 16th will be broadcast (live or otherwise) on CSPAN and if so on which channel (1, 2, or 3)and if so when the airtimes are?" Yes they are, go to http://commerce.senate.gov/. It is being webcasted. Chip Cryderman ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jun 2004 09:12:20 EDT From: Charles.B.Wilber@Dartmouth.EDU (Charles B. Wilber) Subject: Re: Be Careful About Quoting Scanner Messages My point was simply that there are specific FCC regulations which apply to "interception" of radio, telephone and other traffic that is not intended for the person doing the intercepting. As a general rule, even if listening to such traffic is not a crime, relaying its contents to a third party is. I mentioned New Gingrich because his was a very high-profile case with which most Americans became familiar due to incessant media coverage. Speaker Gingrich did not violate any laws but he was seriously inconvenienced -- and his career was ended -- as a direct result of the actions of someone who did. I doubt that many people would remember the name of the man (and his wife) who "accidentally" heard Newt Gingrich's cellular phone call on their scanner while driving around in their car. Even if people don't remember the facts, they remember the severity with which the matter was treated. I could just as easily have mentioned Bill Clinton and taped telephone conversations. Charlie Wilber Dartmouth College --- Mark Crispin wrote: > You might want to be careful about repeating what you heard on the > scanner to other parties. Newt Gingrich and others learned about some > of the relevant state and federal statutes the hard way. How quickly the facts are forgotten/distorted. ------------------------------ From: jmeissen@aracnet.com Subject: Re: Be Careful About Quoting Scanner Messages Date: 15 Jun 2004 20:17:57 GMT Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com In article , Mark Crispin wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Charles B. Wilber wrote: > Attempts to have McDermott prosecuted went nowhere. Laws don't apply > to Democrats in Congress. Now, now ... let's not single out the Democrats. Laws don't apply to Republicans, either, as Bush has shown us many times. John Meissen jmeissen@aracnet.com ------------------------------ From: Chip G Subject: Re: Job Openings? Organization: Comcast Online Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:40:33 GMT Chris Boone wrote in message news:telecom23.291.4@telecom-digest.org: > Anyone know of any good telecom job openings anywhere? (PBX, > microwave, fiber, etc?) If so, please reply direct for more details. > (Remove nospam from my address) > Thanks. There are quite a few jobs posted on various major players web sites (Avaya, Cisco, SBC, Cingular, AT&T, Sprint, etc.). I would suggest starting with those. I also find Monster to be a good source of leads. If you are really open to relocating at your own cost, I am confident that you will find a great job! It seems there just aren't enough good people willing to relocate for these types of jobs. I think very few companies are offering relocation assistance anymore (except for senior executive type jobs) but if you can get yourself to a place they need you and you have good credentials, then you will find something with no problem. Best wishes, Chip ------------------------------ From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Hancock) Subject: Re: More Memories of Illinois Bell Date: 15 Jun 2004 10:42:14 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com TELECOM Digest Editor wrote: > You've all heard the expression that 'no good deed goes unpunished' or > perhaps how things you do come back to bite you on the ass later in life. > ... In other words he was one of those guys who works > during overnight hours, going out to **important, and critical** customers > whose phone service is down, when it **really** matters to the community > or at least the customer. I wonder in this post-divesture deregulated age if such critical services would still be provided as described in your story. I tend to doubt it. We have too many little vendors and manufacturers who are way too small to accomodate the overhead of having "night people" on duty to keep things running in emergencies. Further, with competition, companies must be "lean and mean" which means no excess capacity or staff on standby not earning revenue. It was the same thing in the computer business when it was dominated by IBM. IBM had so many customers and was so big and profitable it could and would have backup personnel and equipment ready at all times to help customers out of a jam. Ironically, other industries that don't need to be so big, like banking and retail, have merged into a few giant nationwide firms eliminating competition. If you have a VISA/MC, there's a good chance it was issued by MBNA, a huge outfit that issues cards under other names. The recent big NE U.S. blackout apparently was initiated by problems in a troubled Ohio utility. I don't know about them, but I wonder if years ago, before deregulation, if they were a modest, but stable outfit. Also, deregulation allowed for electric power sharing which the national grid was not designed to accomodate and thus overloaded. And of course there was the California power debacle a few years ago. The real kicker is that all this deregulation hasn't saved me any money. My phone bills are higher than ever thanks to all the "fees" added on, and all the fine print in the contracts. (I did some comp- arison shopping recently, and they ALL pull the same garbage -- a low quoted rate in big bold type, but all sorts of exceptions/exclus- ions/extras in microfine print that greatly increase your bill). ------------------------------ From: pv+usenet@pobox.com (Paul Vader) Subject: Re: Need Expert Legal and Medical Testimony for Lawsuit Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:07:55 -0000 Organization: Inline Software Creations John Levine writes: >>> 1-212-561-5483 > If you tell Google to search Usenet for that number, you find a copy > of the same message in a spam report, and a different message last > month from a guy who says he's in Missouri and is looking for a child > he fathered 17 years ago. Most peculiar. It appears to be the same guy. The old message is signed 'Charles Boyer', and the message that Pat forwarded is from someone with an email address of "clb6969". Also, there's two other versions of Pat's letter, one without the masonic handshakes. Wasn't Charles Boyer an actor? The name definitely sounds familiar. * > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So Paul, can you tell me a little more > about these Masonic and Mormon passwords; why they exist and what is > the meaning (of the passwords)? PAT] First off, I *wasn't* remembering my Sherlock Holmes properly. I was thinking of an exchange during Jefferson Hope's story in "A Study in Scarlet", but the password used there was not "So mote it be". That latter phrase is actually another masonic thing. The wiccan religion also uses it (in a similar manner to how christians use "amen"), but they probably inherited it from masonic rites, via Alister Crowley. But anyway ... "Will no one help the widow's son?" is a passphrase used by traveling Masons in trouble trying to make contact with a local lodge brother. * * PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something like corkscrews. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Charles Boyer (pronounced 'BOE-YAY'} was a long ago star of the silver screen, both in silent movies and in the early talkies. To Christians, the phrase 'Amen' is taken to mean 'so be it'. PAT] ------------------------------ From: matt@autocab.com (Matt Hall) Subject: Re: CLI via CSTA (Siemens HiPath 3000) Date: 15 Jun 2004 09:12:14 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Hi Mike, I do have the CSTA specification from Siemens, and I have managed to extract the basic structure of the messages, however, I am finding it difficult in recognising what each message means. I am relatively inexperienced in using ASN.1, so the specification from Siemens is less than clear to me. Additionally, I want to avoid using an ASN.1 compiler, as I am only after a small subset of all the messages output from the system, so implementing the full CSTA specification is overkill for my needs. All I am trying to do is extract the incoming phone number and the extension number that answers the call either before or when the call is answered. Thanks for your help! Matt Mike Blake-Knox wrote in message news:: > In article , Matt Hall wrote: >> Has anyone else had any experience in decoding the ASN.1 encoded data, >> and recognising the semantics of the data once it has been decoded? > The reference on ASN.1 and BER that I've used is "Abstract Syntax > Notation (ASN.1): The Tutorial and Reference" ISBN 1 871802 06 07. >> I'm finding it difficult to recognise the meanings of these strings > Do you have a Siemen's spec and/or the ECMA standard? If so, what kind of > strings are you having problems with? > Mike Blake-Knox ------------------------------ From: SELLCOM Tech support Subject: Re: Office Telephone System Recommendations Organization: www.sellcom.com Reply-To: support@sellcom.com Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:25:25 GMT eljainc@ameritech.net (Mike McWhinney) posted on that vast internet thingie: > We are currently shopping around for a office telephone system. We do > not need anything fancy (we have 4 lines, 8-10 phones). We're looking > for something similar to the following: You should check out the TMC ET4000 "epic phone". It would also allow you to easily add some cordless phones and music on hold. Two year warranty and feature rich. http://www.et4000.com Steve at SELLCOM http://www.sellcom.com Discount multihandset cordless phones by Siemens, AT&T, Panasonic, Motorola Vtech 5.8Ghz; TMC ET4000 4line Epic phone, OnHoldPlus, Beamer, Watchguard! Brick wall "non MOV" surge protection. Mini-Splitter log splitter! If you sit at a desk www.ergochair.biz you owe it to yourself. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:00:32 EDT From: Carl Moore Subject: Typo Error: Letters Reversed I noticed a case of KRPS and KPRS (notice 2 letters transposed) in an excerpt (V22 #156) where TELECOM Digest Editor noted: > My favorite station is KRPS in Pittsburg, Kansas at 89.9 FM, the > classical music station from NPR at Pittsburg State University. > Trouble is, Pittsburg is a *trip* from here, about 70-80 miles east, > next to Joplin, MO and that distance is a bit far for most FM > stations. I have a Bose radio/CD and when I put an external antenna on > it I can get KPRS. They also have a repeater-translator at 102.7 FM in > Bartlesville, OK but that one is run off the air by KIND the local > station at 102.9. They also have a repeater in Iola, Kansas but that > is farther away than even Joplin/Pittsburg, and the religion people > here in town (91.9 FM American Family Association) run Iola away. And > the PBS station in Tulsa is just to weak to come in here, and that is > about 90 miles straight south. KPRS has a stereo signal, but I do not > get stereo for it, just a mono signal, which seems to imply I am just > getting 'wisps' of it that happen to get here. I know if I had a good > rooftop antenna like many folks in town I could make the trip from > Pittsburg quite easily. PAT] You were commenting on: > Subject: Re: Radio Signals > From: bonomi@c-ns (Robert Bonomi) > Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 04:12:56 GMT [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But things have improved here lately. The correct call sign is KRPS, at 89.9 FM, Pittsburg, KS and it does classical music almost all day except for repeating BBC during over- night hours. Now KRPS (local residents who do not care for classical music say that the call sign refers to KRaPpy Station is carried at no charge on cable as a free offering by CableOne, our cable service here. The classical music in Tulsa, OK is on 89.5 FM. CableOne has their tower over on Oak Street around 18th Street, and among their other equipment there is a crystal controlled radio set for 88.5 and 88.9 FM. High in the air, feeding right into the cable head end. The cable guy knows I listen to it, and he came over here one day with a 'cable/FM radio splitter' and put it on my (cable) line and attached the cable to the back of the Bose radio in place of the external antenna I had been using. Right away KRPS started screaming at me, and by George, even the 'stereo' indicator lighted up, something I had never seen it do on Pittsburg or Tulsa before. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:31:38 EDT From: Carl Moore Subject: Re: Ravings In V22 #157 of the digest (late November 2002), I have some feedback about the Editor's Note. I remember reading of March 25 (not 21) being New Year's in Britian & its colonies (including the future U.S.) coming up to the year 1752. I VAGUELY recall that March 25 was the spring equinox but it drifted up to March 21 (due to pre-Julian errors?). The Gregorian calendar used March 21 or so as the spring equinox. In either case, you may have seen 11 Feb. 1731 as date of birth "old style" of George Washington. Memorial Day in the US is last (not 4th) Monday in May, so it will fall between May 25 and May 31 inclusive. Easter falls between March 22 and April 25 (not 15) inclusive. It was April 23 in 2000. ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:12:10 -0400 Subject: It may be time to answer the call of Voice over Internet Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy15.html BY ANDY IHNATKO People ask me why I hate telephones so much. "They're just so ... so ... analog!" I tell them, putting the same tone of revulsion in my voice that you'd normally use when talking about eating a member of one's own species. But now I may have to change my attitude, or at least come up with a new line. There's a new alternative to wireless and traditional landline technologies: the Voice over Internet Protocol. Before VoIP, you couldn't say "phone calls over the Internet" without using air quotes. For convenience and practical utility, it resembled a real phone call about as closely as a two-man horse costume resembled Seabiscuit. What makes VoIP technology so remarkable is the fact that it's not remarkable at all. You pick up your phone, you hear a dial tone, you dial a phone number, and a few seconds later, you're talking to your great-aunt Eunice in Omaha. When someone calls you, the phone rings and you pick it up. Full story at: http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy15.html How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/ ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. 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