From editor@telecom-digest.org Wed Dec 29 20:10:06 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.6) id iBU1A5g21716; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:10:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:10:06 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200412300110.iBU1A5g21716@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 #623 TELECOM Digest Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:10:00 EST Volume 23 : Issue 623 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Book Review: "Death Match" by Lincoln Child (Patrick Townson) Quadruple Play: Time Warner, Sprint Near Cell Phone Deal (Telecom Daily) Re: First 1-900 Number? Question on Millionaire Show (Anthony Bellanga) Re: Such Carnage is Hard to Believe! (David Clayton) Re: Such Carnage is Hard to Believe! (jmeissen@aracnet.com) Web Page Helps Tsunami Survivor Search (Lisa Minter) Navy SEALs Sue Associated Press Over Iraq Photos (Lisa Minter) Vioxx Unseats Porn in List of Top 2004 Junk Email (Lisa Minter) Re: The Secret Life of Phone Numbers (Phil McKerracher) Office Phones, Omega Phone, Iwatsu, 24 Button CHEAP!!! (TIA@thanks.com) Re: Beware Sprint Phone Rebates (Brad Houser) Re: www.area-code.us (Linc Madison) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. 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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: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:00:00 EST From: Patrick Townson Subject: Book Review: "Death Match" by Lincoln Child An interesting new book I read over the Christmas holiday was entitled "Death Match" written by author Lincoln Child, published in April, 2004 by Doubleday division of Random House. The ISBN is 0-385-50670-8. Another book by Mr. Child was titled "Utopia". "Death Match" is a story about an imaginary Internet 'Dating/Match Service' operating in New York City. This Internet Dating Service is called 'Eden'. Unlike more 'primitive internet dating services' which only ask a bunch of questions then proceed to match two people together (i.e. Yahoo, but not named in the book), the fictional service known as 'Eden' is much more expensive (for example, like 'e-harmony.com' but, again, not named as such), and uses several very complex computer algorythms to match people together and costs a lot more money. Eden takes much pride in putting together 'super couples'; people who are matched at 95 percent or better in all the aspects, offering a lifetime guarentee of a pefect mate. But, as Eden discovers, strange disasters begin to occur to the couples they match up. One supercouple commits apparently a double- suicide exactly two years to the day they first were introduced through Eden. Then a few weeks later, a second 'supercouple' also die, and police say that was a double-suicide pact also. Eden decides to investigate it further. They hire a forensic psychologist who had been employed by the FBI as a profiler to look into the whole thing. He is given free reign to examine all the aspects of the way the business is run, and he gets that free reign until he begins to discover some ugly details about the company's founder, a recluse who lives in a penthouse at the top of the Eden building with a very sophisticated computer network they call 'Lisa', which is a take off on the name 'Eliza' which I believe is or was a very large, very fast, very intelligent computer at MIT which uses artificial intelligence. The story takes a number of interesting twists and turns and I think you might enjoy it. Mr. Child has authored several best selling thrillers, including co-authoring some books with Douglas Preston such as 'Relic', 'The Cabinet of Curiosities', and 'Still Life With Crows'. He lives with his family in Morristown, NJ. Patrick Townson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:03:21 EST From: Telecom dailyLead from USTA Subject: Quadruple Play: Time Warner, Sprint Reportedly Near Cell Phone Deal Telecom dailyLead from USTA http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=18408&l=2017006 TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * Quadruple Play: Time Warner, Sprint reportedly near cell phone deal BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * Adelphia offers $300 million to settle SEC, DOJ investigations * Level 3, France Telecom ink deal * Qwest delays VoIP rollout * Vonage extends free phone service offer to troops in Iraq USTA SPOTLIGHT * Carrier Grade Voice Over IP -- Now at www.telecom-bookstore.com EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES * Internet, TV convergence still faces hurdles REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * Federal court rules Minnesota can't regulate VoIP services Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=18408&l=2017006 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:57:57 -0700 From: Anthony Bellanga Subject: Re: First 1-900 Number? Question on Millionaire Show Please do NOT display my email address nor "reply-to" address whatsoever in my posting. Thanks! Carl Moore wrote: > On ABC-TV "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" show which aired last Friday > (Dec. 24), there was a question about the 1st 1-900 number (in 1980?). > The answer given was that it was used for Reagan-Carter debate (in > U.S. presidential campaign that year). What about the 1-900-242-1611 > used for Carter's call-in in 1977? Notice that BOTH of these involved > President Carter. > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The correct answer **should have been** > the 1977 call-in program. Someone should notify the producer of the > show and challenge his 'correct answer'. PAT] I seem to remember that the 1980 1-900 number for the Reagan-Carter might have been the first widespread or known use of 900 for the new "Dial-IT" pay-per-call function, these calls with their own special rates. This 1980 activity was probably a "call to submit your vote or opinion as to who won the debate". The 1977 Carter radio call-in program hosted by CBS newsman Walter Cronkite was still using the older "choke" or "mass calling" network function of 1-900. AT&T had actually begun the "choke" or "mass call" 900 network back in 1970, and I understand that there were sporadic uses throughout the 1970s, but apparantly they weren't as publicly known or widespread. The 1977 President Carter radio call-in special with 1-900-242-1611 was actually set to be FREE to the calling party, with either the White House or CBS News picking up the tab from AT&T. But except for that 1977 Carter radio call-in, the 1970s "mass calling" 900 choke network was billed at regular tariffed distance-based rates, based on the NPA-NXX code of the calling party with respect to the 900-NNX code of the dialed number. When AT&T changed 900 to "Dial-It" (pay-per-call) in 1980, they totally re-vamped the 900-NXX codes in use, this time with specific pay-per-call charges associated with specific (new) 900-NXX codes. Initially (early 1980s), AT&T's "Dial-It" 900 was only 50-c per call, or at most 50-c the first minute with 35-c each additional minute, but by the mid-1980s, AT&T had all kinds of Dial-It 900 rates, each rate based on the specific 900-NXX code of the dialed number, rates ranging from either free (900-200 and 900-555 numbers at that time), or 25-c per-call or per-minute, to as much as ten dollars a call, all rates associated with specific 900-NXX codes. Then by the late 1980s (post-divestiture), other competitive companies began to provide their own pay-per-call 900 services (the use of the term "Dial-It" is a trademark or servicemark of AT&T), specific 900-NXX codes also dedicated to specific service providers. And these "other" service providers could have almost any kind of rates that they chose. Presently, AT&T has completely vacated the "900" business. They vacated 500 "personal numbering" a few years ago as well. Other "major" carriers have also eliminated 500 and/or 900 in recent years too, the only remaining providers of 500 and 900 being mostly "sleaze" companies (or in the case of 500, there is quite a bit of GPS or "on-star" type carriers and access numbers). But as for the "first" 900 numbers in use -- it is probably even earlier than 1977, but the 1977 Carter radio call-in 900-242-1611 is the first one that was made known nationally or widespread for most people. Anthony Bellanga ------------------------------ From: David Clayton Subject: Re: Such Carnage is Hard to Believe! Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:33:08 +1100 TELECOM Digest Editor contributed the following: > I realize what I say next is not a telecom topic; but ... I say it and > hope you will give it some thought as I have several times today. > That disturbance of the earth over around s.e. Asia on Sunday has > certainly taken its toll. AP Network news (in our td-extra section > on the web site) said as of Tuesday afternoon, USA time, the body > count was now over *fifty thousand* men, women and children, in > Sri Lanka and surrounding areas. ...... This is sort of telecom related, as the areas hardest hit -- like the west coast of Aceh province of Indonesia where the earthquake hit hard, as well as the subsequent Tsunamis -- had all of their telecommunications infrastructure crippled as well. This means that people just don't know the amount of casualities in those areas, while the places where the telecommunications infrastructure was left relatively intact have been providing the horrifying pictures we have all been seeing in the news. It looks like over 100,000 may die as a direct result of the event, many times more will have been injured, and many, many more will have had their lives impacted. Regards, David Clayton, e-mail: dcstar@XYZ.myrealbox.com Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (Remove the "XYZ." to reply) Dilbert's words of wisdom #18: Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Everytime I turn on the news today, the count has gone up another five or six thousand. Yesterday it was forty-some thousand deaths, now this afternoon Yahoo News is saying 75,000, although AP had the figure as 73,000. And the governments there are instructing the survivors "stack the bodies up in piles along the street curb, we'll get them disposed of as quickly as we can." PAT] ------------------------------ From: jmeissen@aracnet.com Subject: Re: Such Carnage is Hard to Believe! Date: 29 Dec 2004 21:18:13 GMT Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com In article , TELECOM Digest Editor wrote: > Meanwhile, the United Nations called on Dubya to do more than the > stingy pittance he offered. He said he would 'think about it'. Trouble > is, Dubya has gotten so badly in debt on account of Iraq, he does not > have a lot of money left over for things like alleviating human misery. http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/28/tsunami.diver/index.html [American tsunami survivor] Faye Wachs said she was impressed by the efforts of the Thai government and the International Committee for the Red Cross, but "she was appalled at the treatment they got" from the U.S. government, her mother said. At the airport in Bangkok, other governments had set up booths to greet nationals who had been affected and to help repatriate them, she said. That was not the case with the U.S. government, Wachs told her mother. It took the couple three hours, she said, to find the officials from the American consulate, who were in the VIP lounge. Because they had lost all their possessions, including their documen- tation, they had to have new passports issued. But the U.S. officials demanded payment to take the passport pictures, Helen Wachs said. John Meissen jmeissen@aracnet.com [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, how did Dubya know they were not just a couple of 'terrorists' trying to sneak in and use the tsunami thing as an excuse? Anyway, Dubya has no spare money (right now, or probably for a few decades at least) to spend on such foolishness. Every spare nickle has to go to Navy SEALS and Army guys in their ongoing humane treatment of Iraqi terrorists -- err, prisoners. His religious war against Islam has many more years to go. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Lisa Minter Subject: 'Simpsons' Web Page Helps Tsunami Survivor Search Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:02:05 EST ROME (Reuters) - An Internet site set up by an Italian schoolboy, and previously dedicated to "The Simpsons," is helping people track down loved ones missing since the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. Valerio Natale, a 14-year-old high school student, says two missing Italian holidaymakers -- Dario Collodi and Liliana Giordanino -- have already been found thanks to postings on his web page: http:/www.tuttosimpsons.altervista.org/index.htm. "I was paging through the newspaper and saw lots of ads from people looking for relatives," Natale told Reuters. "I asked myself, Why not make a free site that can help everybody? So I made a free site, which used to be dedicated to the famous American cartoon family, the Simpsons." The site is devoted almost entirely to Italian citizens who disappeared in Thailand, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and India when the tsunami hit on Sunday, killing tens of thousands. It lists the names and ages of those missing, email addresses and phone numbers of worried friends and relatives, a link for photos of the missing, plus useful phone numbers such as Italian consulates, and hotels in Thailand. The site has had 82,000 hits in two days, Natale said. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra . New articles daily. *** 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 Subject: Navy SEALs Sue Associated Press Over Iraq Photos Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:04:12 EST The suit, filed in San Diego Superior Court, said the pictures did not depict abuse and instead put the lives of the soldiers at risk by exposing their faces to the world. "We believe AP's use of the photos and the manner in which they were obtained were entirely lawful and proper," said Associated Press attorney Dave Tomlin, who is representing the news agency and reporter Seth Hettena. The plaintiffs are identified only as "Six Navy SEALs and Two Jane Does," and the suit indicates they have been allowed to file anonymously by court order. "By failing to conceal the identities of the Navy SEALs, Defendants Seth Hettena and the AP have jeopardized the lives of Plaintiffs Six Navy Seals and their families, as well as compromised their future missions and careers," the suit said. The U.S. Navy said it had nothing to do with the suit. "The lawsuit is not a naval special warfare issue but rather a civil matter undertaken by these individuals against The Associated Press, which is being handled through the legal process available to all Americans," said Taylor Clark, a spokesman for the Naval Special Warfare Command. An AP reporter discovered the photos, posted on the picture-sharing site Smugmug.com, during research on another set of photos that purportedly showed Navy SEALs abusing detainees. Confronted with the photos, the Navy said this month it had launched an investigation. The plaintiffs said in their suit that the photos depicted regular special operations techniques and did not show abuse. Jane Doe One, the lawsuit said, stored the photos on Smugmug.com, among a collection of personal photographs. The suit said the two Jane Does are wives of two of the SEALs, members of the elite Navy force Sea-Air-Land. The AP reported that the unnamed woman said the photos came from her husband, who brought them from Iraq after his tour of duty. But the suit denies that that was the case, or that she told the AP as much. Distributed around the world, the AP reported the photos showed Navy SEALs sitting on hooded and bound detainees, holding a gun to a detainee's bloodied head, and placing a boot on the chest of a prone man. Other photos showed grinning U.S. personnel sitting or lying atop three hooded prisoners in the bed of a pickup truck. The Dec. 3 AP story quoted a spokesman for the Naval Special Warfare Command as saying some of the photos could put the lives of the SEALs at risk. The suit, which claims invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress, seeks damages and an injunction barring further distribution of the photos. For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra . New articles daily. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This Internet discussion group is making it available without profit to group members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of literary, educational, political, and economic issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. I believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner, in this instance, Associated Press. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: For up to the minute, five minutes in length, news reports from Associated Press, look at our web site http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/AP.html .I, for one, am glad the Associated Press has been so involved in the Iraqi Prisoner Abuse matter. As this entire stench slowly works its way up the chain of command to the White House itself, its good to see some people care, even if Dubya does not seem to worry much about how long his religious war against Islam takes or how much it costs, etc. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Lisa Minter Subject: Vioxx Unseats Porn in List of Top 2004 Junk Email Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:05:12 EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Porn ads slipped down the list of top junk e-mails in 2004, replaced by offers for arthritis drug Vioxx, ID theft scams and stock pick information, America Online said. Although "HOT LESBIAN ACTION" made the list of most frequently sent junk e-mails, or spam, lurid displays of pornography are now more easily blocked by filters offered by AOL and other Internet service providers. Harder to block were the ubiquitous penis enlargement ads that were classified as online medication and not as sex ads. Porn ads were defined as "strictly skin and sex," an AOL spokesman said. Spam has also changed considerably and now features deceptively simple text messages and Web addresses that link to sites, according to AOL, the world's largest Internet service provider and a unit of Time Warner Inc. Junk e-mail senders have also gotten more sophisticated and are now generally controlled by several top "king pin spammers," the company said. "This year's list was tilted more toward fraudulent and dubious scams and schemes," said AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham. And despite the decrease in volume, the ads were "much more malicious and harmful to consumers." AOL on Tuesday said junk e-mails received by its subscribers had dropped 75 percent, largely due to better built-in filters and blocks, based on a poll of complaints it compiled. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra . New articles daily. *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This Internet discussion group is making it available without profit to group members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of literary, educational, political, and economic issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. I believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner, in this instance, Reuters News Service. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I thought Vioxx was removed from the market after they discovered how dangerous it was, causing death and/or heart attacks in many cases. And I have not seen nearly as much Vioxx email as I have seen Viagra and penis enlargement ads. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Phil McKerracher Subject: Re: The Secret Life of Phone Numbers Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:58:52 GMT Alan Burkitt-Gray wrote in message news:telecom23.620.3@telecom-digest.org: > I thought Digest fans would be interested in this programme on BBC > Radio 4 tonight (Monday 27) at 20.00 GMT (3pm ET): > It's available when broadcast from the BBC Radio Four website in > RealAudio on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4.shtml?fm ... Thanks, I enjoyed that, thanks for letting us know. By the way, I went on a very interesting "backstage" tour of the Science Museum store called "Birth of telecommunication" -- now booked out until at least next May, but worth applying for if they run it again (it's a trial). Lots of fascinating early telegraphy stuff. http://www.ingenious.org.uk Phil McKerracher www.mckerracher.org ------------------------------ From: Subject: Office Phones, Omega Phone, Iwatsu, 24 button CHEAP!!! Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:28:15 -0500 Please check out this item on E-Bay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5741124088&ssPageName=ADME:L:DS:US:8 Thanks for looking. ------------------------------ From: Brad Houser Subject: Re: Beware Sprint Phone Rebates Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:32:46 -0800 Organization: Intel Reply-To: Brad Houser Nate wrote in message news:telecom23.616.4@telecom-digest.org: > After my previous Sprint contract was up, I called to see about a > phone/plan upgrade. The salesman sold me a new plan and a new phone > with a big rebate. Well, the rebate was turned down because the > "saleperson" never changed my original plan. Called Sprint and after > talking to two people (including a supervisor), they wouldn't do > anything except say "talk to the rebate people". I explained that the > "rebate people" aren't the ones who screwed up. They didn't seem to > grasp this concept. It looks like Sprint may have sold me a very, > very overpriced phone. Can you say lifelong loss of a Sprint > customer? > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This is a typical tactic by Sprint. > We have had other messages in the Digest from people who said Sprint > was not honoring their rebates very well. PAT] Go down to your nearest Sprint store and ask to speak to the manager and don't leave until they fix it. If they refuse, then start raising your voice until you have scared off every new customer. Picket the store. Be a nuisance. Brad H. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: www.area-code.us Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:11:34 -0800 From: Linc Madison Reply-To: lincmad@suespammers.org Organization: California resident; nospam; no unsolicited e-mail allowed In article , Mike Schoenberger wrote: > Mark, Linc or Patrick, > I was unable to find another contact email so I hope that you receive > this and can forward my email to someone who can fix a link on this > site. > If you go to Codes -> Services -> Rocky Mountain Telco it goes to > http://www.rockymnttel.com/. > This is now a porn site for whatever reason! The area-code.us site is an alias to areacode-info.com, which is John Cropper & Eric Morson's site. The left-hand sidebar has human-readable e-mail addresses for them. My guess would be Eric would be the best individual to start with. The e-mail is his first initial last name at areacode dash info dot com. 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