The Telecom Digest for September 18, 2010
Volume 29 : Issue 251 : "text" Format
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:46:11 -0400
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Now the reporter will never prove the Mars landing was a hoax
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1009162334480.9488@panix5.panix.com>
[press release]
Now the reporter will never prove the Mars landing was a hoax ... (a)
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities on Thursday (Sept. 16)
granted Verizon's request to provide customers with an online,
electronic version of the Verizon White Pages directory as the
primary means to access residential telephone directory information.
Beginning in December, most Verizon directories delivered in New
Jersey will not include residential white pages listings.
----
rest:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-jersey-board-of-public-utilities-approves-verizons-request-to-stop-automatic-delivery-of-printed-residential-white-pages-103081209.html
[a] (In a well-known work of fiction), when reporter Robert Caulfield
started suspecting there might be some funny goings on in regards
to Capricorn One's [b] supposed flight to, and landing, on Mars,
he met up with Elliot Whitter, a NASA tech.
However, Mr. Whitter vanished. As did all records
showing he'd ever existed.
For example, Caulfield went to Whitter's apartment, a
place he had visited previously. Yet there was a totally
different couple living there, who claimed they had
been there for years, and there were piles of magazines
lying around showing subscription labels going way back.
Caulfield's editor thought his star reporter was losing
it. But then.... Caulfield grabbed a phone book. And
sure enough, his pal's entry was still there.
As Caulfield put it, "they" couldn't re-edit a hundred
thousand phone books....
[b] a very good book and a pretty good movie. The phone book
scene was in the first, not the latter.
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:52:34 -0500
From: "Michael G. Koerner" <mgk920@dataex.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Now the reporter will never prove the Mars landing was a hoax
Message-ID: <6vGdnSwRQM1BNw7RnZ2dnUVZ_oadnZ2d@ntd.net>
On 2010.09.16 22:46:11, danny burstein wrote:
[Moderator snip]
> The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities on Thursday (Sept. 16)
> granted Verizon's request to provide customers with an online,
> electronic version of the Verizon White Pages directory as the
> primary means to access residential telephone directory information.
>
> Beginning in December, most Verizon directories delivered in New
> Jersey will not include residential white pages listings.
> ----
> rest:
> http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-jersey-board-of-public-utilities-approves-verizons-request-to-stop-automatic-delivery-of-printed-residential-white-pages-103081209.html
[Moderator snip]
The AT&T 'books' that were just delivered here in the Appleton, WI area also,
for the first time, omit the residential white pages listings. The very good
local street maps that they had been using for the last couple of decades are
gone, too.
Sigh....
--
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Michael G. Koerner May they | | | | | | rise again!
Appleton, Wisconsin USA | | | | | |
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:45:48 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Now the reporter will never prove the Mars landing was a hoax
Message-ID: <i70d0s$mrp$1@news.albasani.net>
danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
>[press release]
>Now the reporter will never prove the Mars landing was a hoax ... (a)
>The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities on Thursday (Sept. 16)
>granted Verizon's request to provide customers with an online,
>electronic version of the Verizon White Pages directory as the
>primary means to access residential telephone directory information.
>Beginning in December, most Verizon directories delivered in New
>Jersey will not include residential white pages listings.
Fine. I tried it. It's a much worse interface than RHDonnelley's. It took
three steps to get to the page, which is a single page .pdf. If I'm browsing,
it won't even let me go to the next page without first choosing a name that
lands on the page. Good grief. No one will use it a second time.
http://my.supermedia.com/whitepages/
>[a] (In a well-known work of fiction), when reporter Robert Caulfield . . .
Ah. Thanks for explaining the reference.
Yes, the movie starts out great but then it runs out of plot around the middle.
I should track down the novel, which I never read.
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:56:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Now the reporter will never prove the Mars landing was a hoax
Message-ID: <41ebbdb8-b33e-4734-bcb4-9e3df787082e@a19g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>
On Sep 16, 11:46 pm, danny burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote:
> Caulfield's editor thought his star reporter was losing
> it. But then.... Caulfield grabbed a phone book. And
> sure enough, his pal's entry was still there.
Sometimes an older edition of a directory will have a listing that is
not provided later on. For instance, in my area the USPS used to
provide the phone numbers of each individual post office; likewise for
many banks and retailers. But now these big organizations list only a
central 800 number and don't give out individual location listings.
For the consumer it means dealing with "voice mail jail" and automated
sales pitches you can't bypass. Sometimes one must contact a local
office; for instance, to see if they're open during a snowstorm.
Also, sometimes individuals change their home number to unpublished
which won't appear in the newest directory, but will appear in an
older version.
Of course the flip side to all this is most people won't want the bulk
of retaining older directories.
As to providing an on-line alternative, I sure hope it's more accurate
than the online directories provided today. Disconnected phone
numbers remain visible for years after disconnection; and numbers are
listed in the wrong town and not available in ordinary searches. Some
numbers show up only when using a very precise search argument; a hard
copy user wouldn't have that problem.
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