|
|
Message Digest
Volume 28 : Issue 291 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Re: Distribution panel for multiple phone lines?
FairPoint in talks with lenders
Re: Comcast seeks NBC-U
Re: Comcast seeks NBC-U
Low cost toll-restriction devices
Re: Low cost toll-restriction devices
Re: Low cost toll-restriction devices
Re: Low cost toll-restriction devices
Re: Comcast seeks NBC-U
Security warning on Verizon server
Re: Security warning on Verizon server
Re: Security warning on Verizon server
Re: Security warning on Verizon server
====== 28 years of TELECOM Digest -- Founded August 21, 1981 ======
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. By using -any name or email address-
included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article
herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the
email.
===========================
Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be
sold or given away without explicit written consent. Chain letters,
viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome.
We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we
are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because
we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands
against crime. Geoffrey Welsh
===========================
See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details
and the name of our lawyer, and other stuff of interest.
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:02:29 -0400
From: Steve Stone <n2ubp@hotmail.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Distribution panel for multiple phone lines?
Message-ID: <hbqkpr$8b9$1@news.eternal-september.org>
At one time I had 5 incoming lines to my home.
When my Dad and I wired my house in 1988 as it was being built we used a
small punch block as a central distribution point
and fed all rooms using a simple star layout.
Cheap, simple, reliable.
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:08:21 -0400
From: Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: FairPoint in talks with lenders
Message-ID: <837369.68853.qm@web52701.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
Troubled phone company FairPoint Communications Inc. said Monday that
it's in talks with some of its lenders in hopes of restructuring its
debt, but still may be forced to file for bankruptcy protection.
FairPoint said that as part of those talks it has entered into a
forbearance agreement with lenders that together hold more than 50
percent of the loans and commitments outstanding under its credit
facility.
FairPoint has payments under the credit facility and its interest rate
swap agreements totaling about $42 million due on Wednesday. The
company said that it likely will fail to comply with the interest
coverage ratio and leverage ratio covenants in the credit facility for
the period ending the same day.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/28/fairpoint_in_talks_with_lenders/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Massachusetts+news
http://bit.ly/GoUPc
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:27:26 EDT
From: Wesrock@aol.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Comcast seeks NBC-U
Message-ID: <c8c.4d84a524.3812607e@aol.com>
In a message dated 10/20/2009 11:29:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
nmclain@annsgarden.com writes:
> AFAIK, no TV station currently streams its signals. But I doubt
> that copyright liability would be any less onerous for TV than it is
> for radio.
KFOR, the NBC outlet in Oklahoma City, announces at the beginning of
every news program "We are streaming our program worldwife."
Wes Leatherock
wesrock@aol.com
wleathus@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:16:20 -0500
From: John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Comcast seeks NBC-U
Message-ID: <6645152a0910221916i4acb8967p949b074a98a707a6@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:27 PM, <Wesrock@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/20/2009 11:29:54 AM Central  Daylight Time,
> nmclain@annsgarden.com writes:
>
>> AFAIK, no TV station currently streams its signals. But I doubt
>> that copyright liability would be any less onerous for TV than it
>> is for radio.
>
> KFOR, the NBC outlet in Oklahoma City, announces at the beginning of
> every news program "We are streaming our program worldwife."
KXAN in Austin offers their nightly newscast as audio and video
podcasts. But I think the original poster was speaking of streaming
the regular broadcast schedule, including prime time shows.
John
--
John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:03:23 -0400
From: Telecom digest moderator <telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@telecom.remove-this-too.csail.mit.edu>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Low cost toll-restriction devices
Message-ID: <20091023020323.GA23459@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
I'm looking for a low cost toll-restriction device that I can use to
prevent anyone in my home doing 1+ dialing.
If it's smart enough to recognize 800 numbers, that's fine, but I'll
settle for a more basic unit. Suggestions welcome.
Bill
--
Bill Horne
Moderator
*******************************************************************************************************
* The address for email submissions has changed: if you submit posts via email, send them to *
* telecomdigestmoderator atsign telecom-digest.org. If you submit posts via a newsreader or *
* Google groups, you don't need to change anything. *
*******************************************************************************************************
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:18:26 +0000 (UTC)
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Low cost toll-restriction devices
Message-ID: <hbr3pi$8a5$1@reader1.panix.com>
In <20091023020323.GA23459@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Telecom digest moderator <telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@telecom.remove-this-too.csail.mit.edu> writes:
> I'm looking for a low cost toll-restriction device that I can use to
> prevent anyone in my home doing 1+ dialing.
> If it's smart enough to recognize 800 numbers, that's fine, but I'll
> settle for a more basic unit. Suggestions welcome.
Is your home phone routing through the local ILEC? If so, they may
(may...) offer toll blocking service.
I bumped into this by accident a decade ago in NYC. I had a dispute
with Nynex (now Verizon), and they kept my local service active. But
they blocked any (well most [a]) attempts at making a call that would
kick over to an inter-exchange carrier.
There was a line item on the bills (which I don't have with me)
listing this service at... zero cost.
[a] I played with prepending various 10xxx codes. Most didn't work. A
couple did, but I never saw any billing from them.
--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:38:01 -0500
From: "GlowingBlueMist" <GlowingBlueMist@truely.invalid>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Low cost toll-restriction devices
Message-ID: <4ae1173a$0$65861$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.octanews.com>
Telecom digest moderator wrote:
> I'm looking for a low cost toll-restriction device that I can use to
> prevent anyone in my home doing 1+ dialing.
>
> If it's smart enough to recognize 800 numbers, that's fine, but I'll
> settle for a more basic unit. Suggestions welcome.
>
> Bill
Here is one on the lower right of the page for around $50.
http://www.sandman.com/pdf/page97.pdf
Instructions on the device can be found here.
http://www.sandman.com/tollrestin.html
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:47:13 -0600
From: Reed <reedh@rmi.net>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Low cost toll-restriction devices
Message-ID: <TZmdnVBjO4SrhHzXnZ2dnUVZ_oydnZ2d@earthlink.com>
Telecom digest moderator wrote:
> I'm looking for a low cost toll-restriction device that I can use to
> prevent anyone in my home doing 1+ dialing.
>
> If it's smart enough to recognize 800 numbers, that's fine, but I'll
> settle for a more basic unit. Suggestions welcome.
>
> Bill
>
Sandman has one for $49
http://www.sandman.com/pdf/page97.pdf
Viking's is $85
http://www.vikingproductstore.com/viking/security-system-1647-Toll-Restrictors.html
Haven't used them myself
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:11:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Comcast seeks NBC-U
Message-ID: <b79c408b-a272-4b3d-b3c1-7c2929cb453d@u13g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> Your argument assumes that local TV station are still needed, and
> that's not the case. As it stands now, local TV executives are on the
> same dead-end road as the record executives of yesterday: their
> influence comes from their position astride a distribution bottleneck
> which has been greatly diminished and will soon disappear.
I'm not sure I agree.
In a sense, much of local TV broadcasting has always been 'out of the
box', that is, coming from the network. Things like national news and
documentaries, daytime soaps, prime time viewing, and Saturday
mornings all come the network and always did. Much of the rest of
broadcasting comes from syndicated sources.
Local TV stations do very little of their own programming; and almost
all that they do do is very cheap stuff.
One thing money is spent on is local news and sports--because--local
news and sports makes good money.
I don't think television advertising has been hit the way newspapers
have been by the Internet. The 'net has hit very specific things such
as classified ads which TV never did carry. The local ads carried by
TV stations are for both local businesses and local outlets of
national chains (banks, drugstores, department stores, fast food,
cars, etc.) While the recession has temporarily dried that up, it's
not permanent.
AFAIK, local television stations are rather profitable.
***** Moderator's Note *****
In his famous "Vast wasteland" speech, Newton Minow said that
broadcasters had a "license to print money", and you're correct that
TV stations in major markets are profitable.
That, however, is not my point.
However profitable TV stations are, they are also serving as middlemen
in between the content producers and the public. As I said, they are
enjoying control of a bottleneck which I think will disappear.
The networks and the syndicators all have access to satellites, and
every TV distribution system operator does too. Sooner or later, those
men will realize that the price isn't right anymore: they're paying
for a local delivery service that they don't need.
Someone always wants more, and the network brass - never the brightest
bulbs in the studio, to be sure - will realize that they can
distribute their programs to something like 80% of their current
audience without paying local stations "carry" fees. The few viewers
that they might lose by bypassing local TV stations aren't enough of a
factor to stop this change, and IMNSHO, local TV will fade away.
Yes, there will be various rear-guard actions that will delay the
inevitable, but the artificial barriers will give way to a more
efficient distribution model, and the Negroponte Switch will be
complete.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:34:07 -0400
From: Telecom digest moderator <telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@telecom-digest.and-this-too.org>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Security warning on Verizon server
Message-ID: <20091023023407.GA24599@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
I just tried to access https://www.verizon.com/ . I got an error message, saying that
"The certificate is only valid for a248.e.akamai.net". Anyone else have this result?
Bill
--
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:30:54 -0400
From: "Gene S. Berkowitz" <first.last@verizon.net>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Security warning on Verizon server
Message-ID: <MPG.254b0996eb9363df989681@news.giganews.com>
In article <20091023023407.GA24599@telecom.csail.mit.edu>,
telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@telecom-digest.and-this-too.org
says...
> I just tried to access https://www.verizon.com/ . I got an error message, saying that
> "The certificate is only valid for a248.e.akamai.net". Anyone else have this result?
>
> Bill
Yes, I get the same error.
Issuer: GTE CyberTrust Global Root
Issued to: a248.e.akamai.net
--Gene
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:57:31 GMT
From: "Tony Toews \[MVP\]" <ttoews@telusplanet.net>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Security warning on Verizon server
Message-ID: <sba2e59bup6gbedn49q8vkgfbjumld46a2@4ax.com>
Telecom digest moderator
<telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@telecom-digest.and-this-too.org> wrote:
>I just tried to access https://www.verizon.com/ . I got an error message, saying that
>"The certificate is only valid for a248.e.akamai.net". Anyone else have this result?
Yes, I get a similar message in both IE and FireFox. However if I click continue
anyhow it takes me to www22.verizon.net. As does http://www.verizon.net.
Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
For a free, convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files
updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/
Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:52:04 +1100
From: David Clayton <dcstar@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Security warning on Verizon server
Message-ID: <pan.2009.10.23.05.52.00.942415@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com>
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:34:07 -0400, Telecom digest moderator wrote:
> I just tried to access https://www.verizon.com/ . I got an error message,
> saying that "The certificate is only valid for a248.e.akamai.net". Anyone
> else have this result?
>
Yes, either the DNS address for that site has been hijacked or the
webmaster at Verizon has a big configuration problem - probably the latter
given that this works:
https://www22.verizon.com/
--
Regards, David.
David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.
TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecom-
munications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in
addition to Usenet, where it appears as the moderated newsgroup
'comp.dcom.telecom'.
TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational
service offered to the Internet by Bill Horne. All the contents
of the Digest are compilation-copyrighted. You may reprint articles in
some other media on an occasional basis, but please attribute my work
and that of the original author.
The Telecom Digest is moderated by Bill Horne.
Contact information: Bill Horne
Telecom Digest
43 Deerfield Road
Sharon MA 02067-2301
781-784-7287
bill at horne dot net
Subscribe: telecom-request@telecom-digest.org?body=subscribe telecom
Unsubscribe: telecom-request@telecom-digest.org?body=unsubscribe telecom
This Digest is the oldest continuing e-journal about telecomm-
unications on the Internet, having been founded in August, 1981 and
published continuously since then. Our archives are available for
your review/research. We believe we are the oldest e-zine/mailing list
on the internet in any category!
URL information: http://telecom-digest.org
Copyright (C) 2009 TELECOM Digest. All rights reserved.
Our attorney is Bill Levant, of Blue Bell, PA.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Finally, the Digest is funded by gifts from generous readers such as
yourself who provide funding in amounts deemed appropriate. Your help
is important and appreciated. A suggested donation of fifty dollars
per year per reader is considered appropriate. See our address above.
Please make at least a single donation to cover the cost of processing
your name to the mailing list.
All opinions expressed herein are deemed to be those of the
author. Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only
and messages should not be considered any official expression by the
organization.
End of The Telecom digest (13 messages)
|
or 