From editor@telecom-digest.org Thu Mar 4 02:40:16 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) id i247eGt15564; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 02:40:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 02:40:16 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200403040740.i247eGt15564@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 #103 TELECOM Digest Thu, 4 Mar 2004 02:40:00 EST Volume 23 : Issue 103 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson First Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (Walker) SBC to Sell Rural Lines to Fund Cingular Deal (Wesrock@aol.com) FCC Needs To Learn From Court Decision (Eric Friedebach) Vonage with Modem and Fax (Alex) EFFector 17.7 (Monty Solomon) Scientific-Atlanta Mulling Video Game Set-Top Box (Monty Solomon) Latest Phishing Scam Most "Devious" Ever (Monty Solomon) Re: Unauthorized Phone Charges Appearing on Local Phone Bill (dold) Re: Unauthorized Phone Charges Appearing on Local Phone Bill (Joseph) Re: A Quick Technical Question (Phil McKerracher) Re: Missouri Bell (Al Gillis) Re: Memories: Enterprise -vs- Zenith Numbers (Michael D. Sullivan) Re: Phone Cos. to Counterattack Cable TV (Steven J Sobol) (Claims to Be) Cellular-Phone Dealer in Nigeria (Carl Moore) The Porn-Worm Explained Further (Patrick Townson) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. 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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, 03 Mar 2004 16:22:01 -0800 From: Alex Walker Subject: First Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI) March 29-31, 2004 San Francisco, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/nsdi04/progb Sponsored by the USENIX Association in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGOPS Dear Colleague: We are writing to remind you that the pre-registration deadline for NSDI is approaching: if you register by March 8th you'll save $150. Visit http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi04/progb to register today. NSDI '04 is a new conference focused on the design principles of large-scale distributed and networked systems. Our goal is to bring together researchers from across the system and networking communities to foster a cross-disciplinary approach to addressing common research challenges. We received 118 technical submissions, and from these the program committee selected 27 papers for inclusion in the conference. The resulting program includes a diverse collection of creative and well-developed papers in areas including sensor systems, network routing, peer-to-peer networks, storage systems, and security. In addition, NSDI '04 will feature a poster session where attendees can interact with researchers describing their current work in its formative stages and learn more about the leading edge of networked systems design. Finally, NSDI is pleased to feature a keynote address by Richard Lawrence, Director of Development Technology at Sony Online Entertainment, who will describe the unique systems challenges faced by builders of multiplayer online games. Please join us for this exciting new conference presenting the best of current networked systems research and practice. We look forward to seeing you there. Sincerely, Robert Morris, MIT Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego NSDI '04 Program Chairs SAVE THE DATE! First Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '04) March 29-31, 2004 San Francisco, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/nsdi04/progb Sponsored by the USENIX Association in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGOPS ------------------------------ From: Wesrock@aol.com Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 20:10:12 EST Subject: SBC to Sell Rural Lines to Fund Cingular Deal Pat: I don't remember seeing this in the digest, and if it hasn't appeared it may be of interest. Verizon is not the only one selling things off. Wes Leatherock wesrock@aol.com NEW YORK -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC - News) is selling off about 650,000 telephone lines in rural Michigan and Texas, which could fetch about $1.5 billion, as it raises money to fund Cingular Wireless's planned acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. (NYSE:AWE - News) , people familiar with the matter told Monday's Wall Street Journal. SBC jointly owns Cingular Wireless with BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS - News), and SBC needs to fund its share of the $41 billion in cash pledged by Cingular to buy AT&T Wireless. The lines are concentrated in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and East Texas. Potential buyers include a range of rural phone companies, such as CenturyTel Inc. (NYSE:CTL - News) , Monroe, La.; Alltel Corp. (NYSE:AT - News) , Little Rock, Ark.; or Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises Inc. (NasdaqNM:CTCO - News) , Dallas, Pa., the people familiar with the matter say. Wall Street Journal Staff Reporters Dennis K. Berman and Jesse Drucker contributed to this report. ------------------------------ From: friedebach@yahoo.com (Eric Friedebach) Subject: FCC Needs To Learn From Court Decision Date: 3 Mar 2004 11:38:44 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Aude Lagorce, 03.03.04, Forbes.com NEW YORK - If the U.S. Federal Communications Commission learns anything from yesterday's court ruling, it should be this: It's time to be a leader, not a follower. The regulatory agency has gone for years without providing the strong guidance and clear-cut decisions the telecom industry needs for investment to pick up and the pace of recovery to accelerate. In the breach, the courts have stepped in to make the FCC's decisions for it. In the latest illustration of this gradual shift in leadership, yesterday a federal appeals court handed a huge victory to the four regional Bell telephone companies--Verizon Communications, BellSouth, Qwest Communications and SBC Communications--by striking down regulation that required them to lease part of their local networks to rival companies like AT&T or Sprint at prices determined by state commissions. http://www.forbes.com/networks/2004/03/03/cx_al_0303fcc.html Eric Friedebach /No Dirty Words On The Whiteboard/ ------------------------------ From: alex@totallynerd.com (Alex) Subject: Vonage with Modem and Fax Date: 3 Mar 2004 14:23:22 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Hi all, I'm looking at maybe switching to Vonage for a second home line, and if it works out, switching my primary line to it as well (to have two lines). Problem is I need one line to be a modem line because I dial into my home network from work from time to time. Can anyone give comments on the quality of this? My cablemodem is Time Warner, which is 2-3 Megs down and 384K up, so this should be more then enough bandwidth. Thanks for any suggestions. Alex. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I am assuming you already have a line with a modem attached for the occassions when you wish to do dial up sometimes. So do I. Vonage works on your cable modem line. Your other modem (used as a dialup on the phone line is a separate matter entirely. It rarely suits me to use dialup these days, but I can if I want to. From the keyboard I just turn on one or the other. You won't really have much luck using *two* Vonage lines on the same cable. It just stretches the limit a bit too far, IMO. But if you decide to try Vonage, you just attach the box to your cable modem right in between the cable modem and the computer. If you need to have both devices (Vonage and your dialup modem) in the line at the same time, there should be no trouble. Vonage works via the cable and your modem works via the phone line. If you decide to try TWO Vonage lines and your cable can handle it AND your computer is fast enough and sturdy enough, it still should have no affect on your dialup modem which is a separate thing entirely. One common mistake people often times make is in calling the 'cable modem' a modem. It really isn't a 'modem' in the sense a dialup thing attached to your phone line is. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:51:04 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: EFFector 17.7 EFFector Vol. 17, No. 7 March 2, 2004 donna@eff.org A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424 In the 279th Issue of EFFector: * Court Overturns Ban on Posting DVD Descrambling Code, Finds Free-Speech Violation * EFF Speaks on Privacy Perils of RFIDs in Libraries * Let the Sun Set on PATRIOT - Section 207 * 321 Studios Counts Down for Fair Use Rights * Record Companies Pay Millions for CD Price-Fixing - Send It to EFF! * Deep Links (17): Copyright Reform Goes Mainstream * Staff Calendar: 03.04.04 - Gwen Hinze speaks at Digital Divide: New Currents in Digital Downloading, Davis, CA; Kevin Bankston speaks at the Southeast Cybercrime Summit, Kennesaw, GA; Lee Tien speaks at RFID Forum, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA; 03.05.04 - Wendy Seltzer speaks at the NEA conference, Seattle, WA * Administrivia http://www.eff.org/effector/17/7.php ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:47:43 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Scientific-Atlanta Mulling Video Game Set-Top Box NEW YORK, March 3 (Reuters) - Scientific-Atlanta (NYSE:SFA) on Wednesday said it is planning to develop television set-top boxes with high-performance video games capabilities, which could compete with game consoles such as Nintendo's GameCube and Sony's PlayStation 2. Scientific-Atlanta chief executive James McDonald, speaking at an investor conference in Dana Point, California, said developers are already building games for its Explorer series of set-top boxes. But he gave no timetable for when such a device might be available. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40747712 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:44:19 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Latest Phishing Scam Most "Devious" Ever By Andrew Colley, ZDNet Australia A prominent anti-virus vendor has described the latest e-mail fraud scheme targeted at Westpac bank customers as the most "devious" the company has ever encountered. The e-mail, distributed en-masse to Westpac customers, represents the latest example of "phishing scams," designed to catch the unwary and fool them into divulging their online banking security details. The architects of the latest scam also adopted a more insidious Web re-direction technique to bamboozle victims. Activating the link in the e-mail directs the victim to a fake version of the site but also opens an authentic copy of the site in a second browser window behind it. The fake version of the site asks for the victim's account access details but returns an error message if he or she attempts to use it. The victim is then sent to the real site unaware that they've been duped. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39116416,00.htm ------------------------------ From: dold@Unauthoriz.usenet.us.com Subject: Re: Unauthorized Bogus Phone Charges Appearing on Local Phone Bill? Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:25:43 UTC Organization: a2i network Joe Donaldson wrote: > Alltel told her that somehow her PC is authorizing these calls and > someone is using her number. It does not show up on her Long Distance > carrier bill but on her local bill only. How does Alltel know that it is the computer authorizing the calls? What does "authorizing these calls" mean? Was the PC even turned on at the time that these calls were made? Is it a separate phone line for the computer? Are regular phones connected to this phone line? Is there an answering machine on the line? Are there any cordless phones in the house? Is the access point for telco outside the house in a secure area? Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5 ------------------------------ From: Joseph Subject: Re: Unauthorized Bogus Phone Charges Appearing on Local Phone Bill? Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:48:20 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.NONOcom On 2 Mar 2004 15:41:16 -0800, tryitoz@hotmail.com (Joe Donaldson) wrote: > My girlfriend has AOL. I have installed a firewall (Sygate lite > version), SpyBot, Ad aware, and Norton Utilities. > Her kids know to not answer Yes/No to pop-up ads but to "X" out of > them. However I know this could also invoke a script as well. > I clean her PC regularly of any spyware/malware and also immunized her > PC with Spybot and the Block list at > http://www.spywareguide.com/blockfile.php > So I am doing my best. > Her LOCAL phone company had multiple charges on it that were not > authorized nor made by her or her children. Multiple calls on multiple > days. This month it was to Guyana, obviously an international call. > Previous month it was somewhere else. The company that showed up on > her bill was "USBI" to Guyana billed on behalf of ONE CALL COMM dba > Opticom. > Alltel told her that somehow her PC is authorizing these calls and > someone is using her number. It does not show up on her Long Distance > carrier bill but on her local bill only. > She has a modem, not a cable or DSL connection. > I heard this can happen but see no posts in Google/Yahoo on this > (perhaps using wrong keywords.) > My suggestion to my girlfriend is the following: > 1. Eliminate ability to dial international calls with Alltell. Alltel > can block such calls. > 2. Then use an MCI or ATT card only to make long distance or European > calls. > Any help appreciated. > Thanks so very much in advance. > The charges total $120. Alltel said they would remove the charges this > one time but would not do it in the future. Very strange. Alltel said > they could make it so no international calls are made; but my > girlfriend does need to make a few to her family and Alltel said there > is no way to restrict the account. This has been in the news of late and here's something I found when referencing google: "When Your Computer Makes A Call ... Without Your Okay If you use the Internet, you're probably dialing a local phone number to get online. Chances are you know exactly what you pay for that local service. However, many consumers are surprised to find they've been charged for calls to destinations that aren't remotely local, simply remote. The calls were made through their modems without their knowledge or approval. How does it happen? According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, it's a scheme some Web sites use to trick consumers into paying to access "free" Internet content." Full reference: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/modmalrt.htm Also, you may want to be sure that you use programs that clean adware and malware from your computer such as Adaware or Spybot Search & Destroy and get a free program such as Zone Alarm (free version) for a software firewall remove NONO from .NONOcom to reply ------------------------------ From: Phil McKerracher Subject: Re: A Quick Technical Question Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 22:11:57 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Eli wrote in message news:telecom23.102.16@telecom-digest.org: > VoIP sounds to have settled already a stable framework. A question > sparkled into my mind regarding video-stream transfer: > Is there or will there be blue-prints for "Video over IP" framework? I > mean in terms of networking protocol and compression algorithms. They already exist. I guess VoIP is a misleading name; it should be "multimedia over IP" or something similar. The webcam facility in MSN Messenger is an example. Phil McKerracher www.mckerracher.org ------------------------------ From: Al Gillis Subject: Re: Missouri Bell Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:50:58 -0800 Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Michael Chance wrote in message news:telecom23.100.8@telecom-digest.org: (Snip...) > The headquarters building that Missouri Bell built in the 1890s is > still standing at the corner of 10th and Olive in downtown St. Louis, > and is currently being renovated into loft condos named, > appropriately, The Bell Lofts. Here in Northeast Portland (Oregon) there is a smallish apartment building named "Exchange Apartments" ... It, too, was a Bell System building years and years ago. ------------------------------ From: Michael D. Sullivan Subject: Re: Memories: Enterprise -vs- Zenith Numbers Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 02:22:52 GMT In article , I shot my mouth off too soon and said: > Two islands, in fact: St. Pierre and Miquelon. They are a Department > of France (equivalent of a state). They are not part of the North > American Numbering Plan, use the French country code and from points in > North America must be dialed internationally via France, even from a few > miles away in Newfoundland. In fact, as had already been posted, they have their own country code, 508, instead of 33 (France) -- but I seem to recall that they were in France's code at some point. Also, they are a "Territorial Collectivity," one step down from being a Department. Thanks to John Levine for setting me straight in an email. Michael D. Sullivan Bethesda, MD, USA Delete nospam from my address and it won't work. ------------------------------ From: Steven J Sobol Subject: Re: Phone Cos. to Counterattack Cable TV Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:05:05 -0600 Monty Solomon wrote: > Starting Wednesday, SBC Communications Inc. will offer DISH Network > satellite cable service to all of its residential customers in the 13 > states where SBC is the dominant local phone provider. Heh. That's funny. Ameritech used to offer competing cable TV services in the Cleveland area -- in certain suburbs -- but had to divest the cable services when SBC borg'd them. JustThe.net Internet & New Media Services, Apple Valley, CA Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / 888.480.4NET (4638) / sjsobol@JustThe.net PGP: C57E 8B25 F994 D6D0 5F6B B961 EA08 9410 E3AE 35ED [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You know, Steve, the more I read about SBC, the happier I am I got rid of them for good in my house. They seem to be less and less interested in providing good phone service and much more into becoming a media conglomerate these days. I got a piece of mail from them yesterday. Another one of their 'please, please come back to us' mailings, with all the usual cut rate deals they are offering for one year, only $25 dollars for this and only three cents per minute on that, free installation, a fifty dollar gift card, and how they have finally begun to take notice now that in their own words, sixty thousand Kansas residents have jumped ship on them and gone elsewhere. Trouble is, I just can't trust them. They seem to lie so much. I'm quite happy with Prairie Stream, thanks. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 16:18:47 EST From: Carl Moore Subject: (Claims to Be) Cellular-Phone Dealer in Nigeria I have edited some headers off. I am not in the activity of trying to sell cellular phones (on or off the net), and I have no way of knowing the legitimacy of the following email (even though it gives an address in Nigeria, it's coming off a French host). Yes, I do see this is not in the familiar scam categories. From: shopcellular Reply-To: shopcellular@voila.fr To: shopcellular@voila.fr Subject: buy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:48:12 +0100 (CET) X-ARL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ARL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=4.054, required 5, BAYES_44 -0.00, RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_11_50 0.88, RAZOR2_CHECK 1.05, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 1.50, SUBJ_BUY 0.63, UPPERCASE_50_75 0.00) X-ARL-MailScanner-SpamScore: ssss SHOP CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS 23, LADOKE STREET, OKOTA, LAGOS-NIGERIA. TEL: 234-8033823918. E-mail: shopcellular1@yahoo.fr=20 =20 HELLO, SPECIAL/CHEAPER CELLULAR PHONES OFFER. =20 WE ARE A INTERNATIONAL DEALERS, EXPORTERS AND SUPPLIERS OF CELLULAR PHONES = AND ACCESSORIES IN NIGERIA. WE HAVE LARGE QUANTITY OF CELLULAR PHONES FOR S= ALE. ALL OUR CELL PHONES ARE TESTED WORKING AND FINAL PRICE COULD BE NEGOTI= ATED ACCORDING TO YOUR ORDER QUANTITY. THE QUOTATION BELOW INCLUDE BATTERY,= CHARGER, MANUALS, ORIGINAL BOX. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BUYING SOME CELLU= LAR PHONES OR ACCESSORIES FROM US, CONTACT OUR SALES DEPARTMENT @: shopcell= ular1@yahoo.fr TEL: 234-8033823918. =20 REGARDS, MRS. KATE OBY. =20 SHOP CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS. =20 =20 =20 VIEW OUR PRICE LIST BELOW -- ALL BRAND NEW: =20 UNITS: MODELS: PRICE: QUANTITY AV= AILABLE IN STOCK: NOKIA 2100-- US$55 690 pcs NOKIA 3210-- US$25 980 pcs NOKIA 3310-- US$29 1700 pcs NOKIA 3330-- US$30 840 pcs NOKIA 3410-- US$35 840 pcs NOKIA 3510-- US$40 840 pcs NOKIA 3510i-- US$45 750 pcs NOKIA 3530-- US$110 600 pcs = =20 NOKIA 3650-- US$185 990 pcs NOKIA 5100-- US$80 550 pcs NOKIA 5210-- US$55 550 pcs NOKIA 5510-- US$55 590 pcs NOKIA 6090-- US$135 400 pcs NOKIA 6100-- US$60 630 pcs NOKIA 6210-- US$60 550 pcs NOKIA 6250-- US$60 400 pcs NOKIA 6510-- US$45 350 pcs NOKIA 6310-- US$65 550 pcs NOKIA 6310i-- US$65 500 pcs NOKIA 6610-- US$65 555 pcs NOKIA 6800-- US$100 490 pcs NOKIA 7110-- US$60 300 pcs NOKIA 7210 Turquoise-- US$100 650 pcs NOKIA 7250-- US$120 650 pcs NOKIA 7650-- US$125 650 pcs NOKIA 8310-- US$90 800 pcs NOKIA 8910 Titanium-- US$95 800 pcs NOKIA 8850 SPECIAL EDITION-- US$105 450 pcs NOKIA 8850 GOLD EDITION-- US$99 400 pcs NOKIA 8910 Black-- US$100 660 pcs NOKIA 9210 Communicator-- US$195 720 pcs NOKIA 9210i Communicator-- US$195 700 pcs NOKIA 8910i-- US$190 600 pcs SONY ERICSSON T200-- US$25 450 pcs =20 SONY ERICSSON T100-- US$30 450 pcs SONY ERICSSON R600-- US$35 450 pcs SONY ERICSSON T20e-- US$35 450 pcs SONY CMD-J70-- US$40 720 pcs SONY ERICSSON T20s-- US$39 300 pcs SONY ERICSSON T28s-- US$39 780 pcs SONY ERICSSON T28 World-- US$45 780 pcs SONY ERICSSON T29s-- US$49 700 pcs SONY ERICSSON T600-- US$49 500 pcs SONY CMD-J7-- US$40 584 pcs=20 SONY CMD-J6-- US$40 250 pcs SONY ERICSSON T300-- US$45 400 pcs SONY ERICSSON T68i-- US$105 780 pcs SONY ERICSSON T65-- US$100 290 pcs SONY CMD-J5-- US$30 350 pcs SONY CMD-Z7-- US$35 350 pcs SONY ERICSSON T310-- US$40 350 pcs SONY ERICSSON T39m-- US$60 420 pcs SONY ERICSSON T66-- US$85 250 pcs SONY ERICSSON R520m-- US$100 200 pcs SONY CMD-Z5-- US$90 340 pcs =20 SONY ERICSSON R380 World-- US$90 380 pcs SONY ERICSSON R380s-- US$105 340 pcs=20 SONY ERICSSON T68m-- US$110 380 pcs=20 SONY ERICSSON T610-- US$130 440 pcs SONY CMD-MZ5-- US$155 340 pcs=20 SONY ERICSSON P800-- US$185 750 pcs MOTOROLA Talkabout 191-- US$25 555 pcs MOTOROLA C330-- US$30 555 pcs MOTOROLA V66-- US$60 640 pcs MOTOROLA v66i-- US$60 650 pcs MOTOROLA Talkabout192-- US$45 1000 pcs MOTOROLA V51-- US$50 555 pcs MOTOROLA V50-- US$50 660 pcs MOTOROLA V70-- US$70 700 pcs = =20 MOTOROLA V60-- US$70 700 pcs MOTOROLA V60i-- US$70 570 pcs MOTOROLA T720-- US$65 670 pcs MOTOROLA Accompli 008-- US$49 400 pcs MOTOROLA Timeport 280-- US$80 403 pcs SAMSUNG SGH-N620-- US$40 500 pcs SAMSUNG SGH-A800-- US$45 800 pcs=20 SAMSUNG SGH-A300-- US$45 670 pcs SAMSUNG SGH-R210-- US$45 500 pcs =20 SAMSUNG SGH-N100-- US$65 623 pcs SAMSUNG SGH-N400-- US$69 650 pcs=20 SAMSUNG SGH-T100-- US$55 650 pcs SAMSUNG SGH-A400-- US$55 650 pcs=20 SAMSUNG SGH-S100-- US$55 447 pcs SAMSUNG SGH-A200-- US$55 300 pcs=20 SAMSUNG SGH-T400-- US$39 390 pcs SAMSUNG SGH-S300-- US$60 490 pcs SAMSUNG SGH-A500-- US$105 580 pcs SAMSUNG SGH-T500 Champagne-- US$110 500 pcs SAMSUNG SGH-V200-- US$115 700 pcs =20 SAMSUNG SGH-T200-- US$125 700 pcs ALCATEL One Touch 501-- US20 450 pcs ALCATEL One Touch 311-- US$25 150 pcs ALCATEL One Touch 701-- US$30 150 pcs ALCATEL One Touch 511-- US$30 150 pcs ALCATEL OT525-- US$39 450 pcs ALCATEL One Touch 512-- US$40 686 pcs ALCATEL One Touch 715-- US$45 574 pcs PANASONIC GD35-- US$20 589 pcs PANASONIC GD52-- US$25 150 pcs PANASONIC GD67-- US$30 234 pcs PANASONIC GD92-- US$40 300 pcs PANASONIC GD90-- US$40 350 pcs PANASONIC GD93-- US$55 250 pcs PANASONIC GD75-- US$65 389 pcs PANASONIC GD55-- US$145 155 pcs PANASONIC GD95-- US$69 450 pcs=20 PANASONIC GD87-- US$70 760 pcs SIEMENS C45-- US$25 850 pcs SIEMENS C55-- US$30 578 pcs SIEMENS M35i-- US$35 345 pcs SIEMENS M50-- US$40 300 pcs SIEMENS S45i-- US$60 770 pcs SIEMENS S40-- US$85 600 pcs = =20 SIEMENS SL42-- US$90 600 pcs SIEMENS ME45-- US$65 410 pcs SIEMENS SL45-- US$45 440 pcs SIEMENS SL45i-- US$45 250 pcs SIEMENS S55-- US$55 330 pcs SIEMENS S55 Camera-- US$55 195 pcs PHILIPS Fisio 120-- US$25 350 pcs PHILIPS Fisio 311-- US$30 300 pcs PHILIPS Fisio 620-- US$35 289 pcs PHILIPS Fisio 825-- US$35 200 pcs PHILIPS Oz=E9o 8@8-- US$45 400 pcs PHILIPS X=E9nium-- US$45 400 pcs PHILIPS Fisio 820 + Kit Blue-- US$49 409 pcs =20 Nextel i90- $59 6= 70 pcs Nextel i95cl- $70 72= 0 pcs Nextel i60c- $40 72= 0 pcs Nextel 6510TM- $110 230 pcs= =20 =20 NOTE: ALL PHONES ARE IN FACTORY SEALED BOXES, WITH CHARGERS, ACCESSORIES, M= ANUALS INCLUDED. =20 SHOP CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS. ------------------------------------------ Faites un voeu et puis Voila ! www.voila.fr=20 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I didn't even bother to edit this trash, although that is what I am paid to do around here, I guess. Had this come from a name I had not recognized, it would have directly in the trash, like several of these do each day. Since Carl Moore sent it in, I guess he wanted you all to see it. Their prices look good, but I doubt you get anything for your money except grief. I do not think they fill orders or respond to inquires. The last five or six copies of this I received were all junked. And before anyone writes to me accusing me of hawking worthless cell phones through spam email using a French mail drop and a Nigerian merchant, please read the final message in this issue coming up next. Thse Nigerians have even started a Telecom Digest beleive it or not (check Google). *They* won't cease and desist copying from my stuff, but neither will the other imposters and frauds. I hope *they* run porn-worm also, so their attitudes about the 'American Satan' will be confirmed. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Patrick Townson Subject: The Porn Worm Explained Further Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:25:38 -0500 A *nice person* from the east coast wrote to me today asking that the message be kept private and the name not be used. I will honor that request. The message, in reference to the Porn Worm program of a few days ago essentially was "why did you run that message?" I answered the person saying it was an editorial comment essentially for a reader who said to me about a year ago 'the net has gotten to be so bad, all there is left on it these days are three things, spam, porn and the TELECOM Digest'. That (first) person was obviously exagerating a little, but not, it would seem, very much. The net has gotten to be pretty awful in the past year or two. I asked the (latest) writer, "have you tried the porn worm?" "Nope", they said,"and don't intend to." The (latest) writer concluded their comments by saying "if you are going to run something like that, you should really add some editorial context to it so people do not get the wrong idea about what you are doing to the Digest." Well, fair enough ... so when I heard one of another of our readers on the radio last week talking about the generally vile condition of the net in recent times (*yes* he reads the Digest most days, and *yes* he is a sort of big shot with the American Family Association, and *yes* he wants to keep his personal life and picadillos private, just like old Joe McCarthy, the Republican from Wisconsin in the 1950's), my thought was "if its vile you want, then vile you'll get." And Porn-Worm just hit the spot! I would have thought you could all see my tongue in cheek as that message was printed, if not, then 30-45 minutes of allowing the worm to run through the internet gathering up stuff and carefully depositing it in a directory where you could later bash it all with ease would have demonstrated it, five or ten thousand .jpg and .avi files later. Literally, if you let it run for 24 hours, the porn would be spilling out all over. The nastiest of the nasty. That's how bad the net has gotten. And although there were more than ten million downloads of the worm when it was first released by AGWAC Studios Company (and in fact I have had three hundred plus downloads of it under its new resurrection in a couple of days) AGWAC went bankrupt because they could not get anyone to pay $20 or whatever they asked to 'register' it. I do not know if that fact speaks favorably for the position of the American Family Association or not. In any event, if you did not get the joke the first time around, I hope you will now. Personally, I don't think it confirms anything the AFA has to say about the net, but more about the cheapness of many of the users of the net. Oh, it was http://porn-worm.us.tf in case you forgot. Now please, no more about it. Either use it or forget about it. Patrick Townson ------------------------------ 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. It is also gatewayed 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 Patrick Townson. All the contents of the Digest are compilation-copyrighted. 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