From editor@telecom-digest.org Mon Sep 6 15:18:24 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.6) id i86JIO401947; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:18:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:18:24 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200409061918.i86JIO401947@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 #418 TELECOM Digest Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:18:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 418 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson China Threatens Internet Porn Merchants with Life (Lisa Minter) Spam Makes Up Half of All Emails in China - Expert (Lisa Minter) Mr. Minister, Please Protect the Public's Interest (Monty Solomon) Re: Play DTMF Tones Over a Modem (Clarence Dold) Re: Play DTMF Tones Over a Modem (Tony P.) Re: Party Lines No More? (Tony P.) 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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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lisa Minter Subject: China Threatens Internet Porn Merchants with Life Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:52:00 EDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China has intensified its battle against Internet and mobile phone pornography by threatening distributors with life in prison, Xinhua news agency said. "Depending on the seriousness of the cases, the sentences range from living under compulsory surveillance, detainmen t, taking into custody by the police, to various terms of imprisonment and life imprisonment," Xinhua said. Beijing has stepped up its battle against smut in recent weeks, saying it is worried that the easy access to such material on the Internet and elsewhere will have a bad effect on youth and society. Under the latest crackdown, which started in July, authorities have shut down hundreds of Web sites and arrested more than 300 people. The new penalties were laid out on Sunday in guidelines issued by China's Supreme People's Court and the office of the country's top prosecutor, Xinhua said. A pornographic Web site that had been clicked on more than 250,000 times would be considered a "very severe" case that could warrant a life sentence for its producers, Xinhua said. It did not elaborate. China's communist rulers have gradually relaxed the puritanical rule they imposed when they swept to power in 1949, but sporadically try to crack down on the sex industry and are particularly nervous about pornography on the Internet. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ From: Lisa Minter Reply-To: ptownson@cableone.net Subject: Spam Makes Up Half of All Emails in China - Expert Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:53:41 EDT Experts say businesses and governments around the world will spend $36 billion this year to defend their computer systems against electronic spam, named for a brand of processed luncheon meat made from ground pork and ham. "Half of the e-mails in your inbox could be messages you never wanted to see," Jean-Jacques Sahel, director of international communications at Britain's Department of Trade and Industry, told a technology seminar in the Chinese capital. "China's forthcoming spam law is a welcome development which I understand is close to being finalized," he said. Spam is expected to account for about 67 percent of all e-mails worldwide this year, up several-fold from eight percent in 2001, Sahel said, citing figures from the United Nations. Reading and deleting junk e-mail costs British firms 460 pounds per worker per year in lost productivity, he said. China is the world's third-largest spam producing country, after the United States and South Korea, accounting for 11.62 percent of all unwanted messages, software firm Sophos says. Some experts blame China, which cracks down on political dissent and pornography on the Internet, for being a haven for "spammers" due to neglect. Last year, the government blocked dozens of computer servers believed to be sending spam. Western governments are pondering laws to enable crackdowns on Internet service providers, or ISPs, who allow spammers to use their systems. The term spam originally comes from "spiced ham" made by U.S. canned food giant Hormel Foods Corp. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:59:31 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Mr. Minister, Please Protect the Public Interest Mr. Minister, please protect the public interest As the former CEO of Canfor Corp., Canada's largest softwood lumber producer, our new Industry Minister David Emerson developed a well-earned reputation for defending Canadian interests against those of the United States. Despite considerable political pressure, Emerson did not hesitate to file a $250 million arbitration claim against the U.S. over its treatment of Canadian softwood lumber nor to scuttle a trade deal that he feared would result in too many lost Canadian jobs. Once established as industry minister, Emerson wasted little time in continuing to prioritize Canadian interests. He quickly raised the prospect of tying Canadian energy exports to aggressive U.S. trade policy, commenting, "I think the United States has to make some fairly significant decisions about their relationship with Canada, just as we have to continually assess our relationship with the United States." Emerson's strong backbone will be tested in the months ahead as he faces unrelenting U.S. pressure on two initiatives that would, if adopted, provide broadcasters with unprecedented control over television signals and severely curtail consumers' expectations with regard to their rights and personal privacy. While digital copyright reform frequently takes centre stage, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the leading U.S. motion picture association, has been lobbying for two sets of broadcast controls on a backstage. These include the creation of a new international broadcasters rights treaty and the mandatory implementation of new technological controls into every device that can receive an over-the-air digital signal. For the past year, U.S. broadcasters and the MPAA have actively lobbied for the creation of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations. This treaty would grant broadcasters increased powers over who may control, transmit, or record broadcast signals. The U.S. would even like to extend this power to Webcasts, which could be interpreted to cover Internet downloads. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1094422212715 ------------------------------ From: dold@XReXXPlayX.usenet.us.com Subject: Re: Play DTMF Tones Over a Modem Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:39:18 UTC Organization: a2i network Prospecting Sucks wrote: > Does anyone know of a program where I can point it to a TEXT file and > have it play the telephone numbers over the modem? Basically just read > the numbers using DTMF tones over the modem line? What OS are you running? There are several Windows programs that will dial directly from a contact list. Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5 ------------------------------ From: Tony P. Subject: Re: Play DTMF Tones Over a Modem Organization: ATCC Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:57:34 GMT In article , action@xmission.com says: > I use a voiceblast system which allows me to keep up to date with > customers and clients. The problem I have is that I have to call into > a toll-free number and then using my telephone keypad I need to key in > the telephone numbers (with area-code) of the people I want to receive > my voiceblast. After I input each telephone number I have to input the > number "1" to confirm the telephone number. > The problem I have is that I have hundreds of customers and it is very > time consuming to have to key these numbers in each time. > Does anyone know of a program where I can point it to a TEXT file and > have it play the telephone numbers over the modem? Basically just read > the numbers using DTMF tones over the modem line? A properly configured VM system should allow group broadcasts. It's all set up on the VM box and you just key in the group ID and everyone gets it. Been that was on Octel and Intuity for years. I'd imagine even telco VM is capable, for a fee of course. You could always just use standard stop/start transfers from Procomm or the like. ------------------------------ From: Tony P. Subject: Re: Party Lines No More? Organization: ATCC Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:51:52 GMT In article , mcharryj@bellsouth.net says: > DevilsPGD wrote: >> In message John P. Dearing >> wrote: >>> By the 1980's and 1990's so few people still had party lines that many >>> of them were effectively single party lines. That is, they had no >>> "mate" on the party line. Bell then started doing "party line >>> reassociations" which is putting party lines back together. You'd look >>> for a Ring party with no mate and find a Tip party with no mate. Put >>> them together and you now have a party line again. >> Any idea how much it cost them to put together parties onto party lines >> again? > In later years, they just bridged them in the CO. This made it easy to use > "killer little old ladies" to drive away other party line subscribers. Unless of course you were to get a relentless bastard like myself. Give up something cheap? Never! ------------------------------ From: Jack Hobbs Subject: Re: Lingo Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:23:57 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Michael Hynes wrote in message news:telecom23.359.3@telecom-digest.org: > I would avoid Lingo at all costs. The service never worked. I called > tech support at which they promised to call me back within 48 hours > (48 hours!) but in point of fact it took them 6 days days days to > return my call. I cancelled and sent everything back for a refund. > Which I haven't recieved yet. I've recontacted them about same. No > response. I'll be contacting my credit card company next ... avoid > them. Oh -- PS -- my Vonage service hasn't exactly been great lately > either ... I'm responding because I think Lingo has taken an unfair beating on the boards. Not doubting your hardships, but my Lingo experience has been near-perfect. I signed up a week ago on Monday, and the Lingo adaptor was here Thursday. I had set my router so the DMZ was routed to the IP that I dedicated to Lingo. When the Lingo arrived, I just plugged in the power, ethernet, and phone cables, and I had dial tone. And, it sounded good when I called myself. A slight delay, but otherwise fine. Voice quality is fair to excellent. One call to The Netherlands had an echo. Some calls seem to have lower volume than normal. But none have been as bad as when I was experimenting with low cost international carriers on POTS. Jack ------------------------------ From: Badnarik For President Committee Subject: One Alternative, Peaceful Perspective Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:49:57 -0500 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This message has been supplied to the Internet by Badnarik for President, 2004. Since neither Bush nor Kerry will allow him to particpate in their debates and discussions, many Internet news groups will try to help him. PAT] NewsAlert@Badnarik.org How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. How many years can a mountain exist Before it's washed to the sea? Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head Pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. -Bob Dylan 9/11 was a day which changed America -- forever. Thanks to decades of interventionist foreign policies by both the Republicans and the Democrats, 2,752 people died in New York City and at the Pentagon in this horrific attack -- the images of which will forever be etched in our hearts and minds. Our government's response has been to take it out on innocent Americans as well as the rest of the world. The Patriot Act directly attacks our most fundamental rights. This is the penalty our government imposed upon us for our suffering as a direct result of the 9/11 tragedy. Remember that Kerry voted for the Patriot Act, Bush signed it into law -- and Michael Badnarik has pledged to repeal enforcement of the Patriot Act on his first day of office. Our government has decided to punish our youth, as well. At this moment, it is reported that 982 of our children have died because they were sent into harm's way to risk their lives in order to protect the interests of big government. Remember that Kerry supported Bush's War of Aggression -- while Michael Badnarik finds it both unconstitutional and immoral. Even more deplorable, we are taking out our aggression on the citizens of Iraq. While no clear death toll exists, it is estimated that between 11,793 and 13,802 Iraqis have died as a result of our actions. All of these needless deaths occurred, yet no WMDs or link between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein was ever found. While Bush and Kerry argue about who will be the tougher war president, Michael Badnarik pledges to be our peace president. This is all being done by both Republicans and Democrats in your name, and in mine. It is critical that we send not just our elected officials -- but the entire world -- the message that our government does not reflect the will of the American people. There are two very important ways in which you may help spread this word -- and let the world know that aggressive, interventionist activities are not being performed in your name. 1) On September 11, 2004, the Badnarik campaign will be holding its monthly Meetup in cities across the United States. As Meetups are held in local coffeehouses, restaurants, and similar facilities, the public will be aware of your local meeting. As this Meetup falls on the third anniversary of the tragedy in NYC, it is fitting for all of us to wear something black at our local Meetup on September 11, 2004. If you are not familiar with the Meetup concept, please check out http://badnarik2004.meetup.com/ to find out more. Then sign up at http://badnarik2004.meetup.com/ in order to attend your Meetup. There are now 320 Badnarik2004 groups worldwide which will all be meeting at the same time on 9/11. Act now to help double that number over the next six days! Remember, it's free and it's local! Make sure you pass this message to your friends and family to encourage them to attend. Feel free to invite members of your local press to attend your meeting. And don't forget to wear something black to mourn the deaths of so many people, American and foreign, who have died as a result of our policies. 2) Make a special memorial contribution to the Badnarik campaign between now and September 11. It does not matter how much you give -- just give what is in your heart. But let's all do something special this time. Let's each provide some quantity where the amount ends with $9.11. If all you can afford is $100.00, please consider making your contribution for $109.11. If you are fortunate enough to be able to afford a $1000.00 donation, by all means make it $1009.11. Even if all you can spare is $9.11, please visit https://badnarik.org/ to make your voice heard. We will be posting the contributions received that end with the digits $9.11 on the website - so your voice will be heard! It is not the amount of the contribution that counts this time - but the total amount of contributions made that end with $9.11. The more of us who donate in this special memorial contribution, the louder our voice will be heard. Please take the few seconds required to send your message to the world by making your special donation at https://badnarik.org/ today. Friends, the world is watching and wondering whether Bush or Kerry will be the next Warmonger-in-Chief of the United States. By attending your local Meeting wearing mourning colors, and by sending in your $9.11 to $1909.11 contributions, you can tell the world that most Americans approve of neither Bush nor Kerry, nor of their policies. After you sign up to attend the special 9/11 Meetup at http://badnarik2004.meetup.com/ and make your special 9/11 donation at https://badnarik.org/, please pass this message on to as many friends and family members as possible. Please encourage them, even if they don't intend to vote for Michael Badnarik, to attend this special Meetup, and to make a small 9/11 contribution -- so we can send our message of non-aggression to our elected officials and begin to apologize to the world for the actions done in our name. In peace and prosperity, Stephen P. Gordon Paid for by Badnarik/Campagna 2004 and distributed on Usenet by participating newsgroups as a public service message. Please recall that although Mr. Badnarik *was/is* eligible under law to participate in the traditional 'presidential debates' process, both Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry refused to allow Libertarian Party participation. ------------------------------ 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. 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