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The Telecom Digest for January 19, 2014
Volume 33 : Issue 13 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
R.I.P. Mark J. Cuccia (Ryan M. Landry)
Re: R.I.P. Mark J. Cuccia (Neal McLain)
Pleper: HBO prepared to go direct to consumer 'if model changes' (Neal McLain)
Re: Rachel (pls excuse formatting) (unknown)
Re: Rachel (pls excuse formatting) (Brian Gordon)
Re: How to torment telemarketers (LA Times) (unknown)

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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:20:23 -0600
From: "Ryan M. Landry" <audubon5425@remove-this.cox.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: R.I.P. Mark J. Cuccia 
Message-ID: <99D6A67266194F9B8A4AFEC923936B50@RyanPC>

Mr. Horne,

Just a short note to inform Telecom Digest that Mark J. Cuccia passed
away yesterday.  He was from New Orleans and contributed to TD for
many years.  I know he had friends in the telecom industry and I
thought you may want to mention it.

Regards,

Ryan M. Landry
Chalmette, La.

***** Moderator's Note *****

Mark was a long-time contributor who did a lot to help the Digest.
We'll miss him.

His obituary appears at

http://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=169165433

Bill Horne
Moderator




Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 22:09:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: R.I.P. Mark J. Cuccia 
Message-ID: <21f69321-55ea-404e-bb43-640dab9b10ac@googlegroups.com>

Bill wrote:

> Mark was a long-time contributor who did a lot to help the Digest.
> We'll miss him. 

Indeed we will.  I found many of Mark's posts interesting and 
well-researched, if a bit long-winded.  In my own posts to the
Digest, I sometimes cited his posts as sources of information.
A search for "mclain cuccia" brought up eleven such posts. 

Neal McLain




Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:10:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Pleper: HBO prepared to go direct to consumer 'if model changes' 
Message-ID: <ae8087d8-ad75-4849-b410-8592ae86d5b4@googlegroups.com>

By Steve Donohue, FierceCable, January 17, 2014

| HBO doesn't yet plan to launch a standalone version of its premium 
| cable network that would be available to subscribers using tablets 
| and other IP-connected devices, but CEO Richard Pleper said 
| Thursday that it is preparing for the option.
|
| "If the market changes, we are not going to be caught without the 
| ability to pivot," Pleper said at an event in New York hosted by 
| BuzzFeed.
|
| In fall 2012, soon after HBO launched a broadband version of HBO in 
| Scandinavia called HBO Nordic, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings predicted 
| that HBO would eventually introduce a standalone product for 
| broadband users in the United States.
|
| On Thursday, Pleper said that the HBO Go app would debut on the
| Sony PlayStation 3 before the fourth season of hit drama series 
| "Game of Thrones" premieres in April. As part of its deal with 
| Sony, Pleper said HBO will also launch an app on the new 
| PlayStation 4 gaming console.

Continued: 

http://www.fiercecable.com/story/pleper-hbo-prepared-go-direct-consumer-if-model-changes/2014-01-17

Yes, Bill ... all TV programming is migrating to the web.  Even HBO.

Neal McLain 




Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:24:05 -0500
From: <arnie.goetchius.remove-this@and-this-too.att.net> (unknown)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Rachel (pls excuse formatting) 
Message-ID: <20140118lbf9fe$g56$1@telecom-digest.net>

tlvp wrote:
> Pete Cresswell <PeteCress@invalid.telecom-digest.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I would also opine that Rachel would be dead meat if the enforcement
>>> people moved her up in their priority list.  ...
> 
> Today Rachel contravened another sacrosanct principle -- she called one of
> my cellular numbers (one that was never previously a landline). Tsk, tsk.

I use Traysoft which blocks Rachel and all others like her.




Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 03:12:01 +0000 (UTC)
From: briang.remove-this@and-this-too.panix.com (Brian Gordon)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Rachel (pls excuse formatting) 
Message-ID: <lbffq1$k5$1@reader1.panix.com>

In article <20140118lbf9fe$g56$1@telecom-digest.net>,
 <arnie.goetchius.remove-this@and-this-too.att.net> wrote:
>tlvp wrote:
>> Pete Cresswell <PeteCress@invalid.telecom-digest.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would also opine that Rachel would be dead meat if the enforcement
>>>> people moved her up in their priority list.  ...
>> 
>> Today Rachel contravened another sacrosanct principle -- she called one of
>> my cellular numbers (one that was never previously a landline). Tsk, tsk.
>
>I use Traysoft which blocks Rachel and all others like her.

Unfortunately, Traysoft appears to be Windows specific :-(

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| Brian Gordon                                brian dot gordon at cox dot net |
| brianggordon.at.hotmail.com                                                 |
| Bass: Lexington "Main Street Harmonizers" chorus                            |
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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:55:33 -0500
From: unknown <arnie.goetchius.remove-this@gmail.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: How to torment telemarketers (LA Times) 
Message-ID: <20140119011501@telecom-digest.org>

T wrote:
> In article <r5Bn5.A.AfE.-9V1SB@telecom>, bernies@netaxs.com says...
> 
> That being said - on a cell phone go and get the app called
> Blocker. I know it's available for Android and maybe IOS. It blocks
> all private and unknown calls plus you can configure pattern based
> blocking. So let's say Rachel from Card Services calls from
> 854-222-2300 through 854-222- 2800. On Blocker you can just put in
> 854-222-2 and tell it to block everything starting with that
> sequence.

Phonetray from Traysoft that I use on my desktop has the same feature
but you have to use ? to make a complete number. In your example, I
would use 854-222-2??? to block everything starting with that
sequence.






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