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TELECOM Digest     Thu, 9 Jun 2005 23:38:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 259

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Digest New Sponsorship (TELECOM Digest Editor)
    Re: Why There Are Questions About GoDaddy (Steve Sobol)
    Verizon Voice Mailboxes Now Give 'Shout Out' to Verizon (Monty Solomon)
    Hatch Act (Gary Novosielski)
    Microwave Fading 6 Gig (HarryHydro)
    Surgery 6 Days Ago (Carl Moore)
    Last Laugh! Funny Telephone Picture (Rich Greenberg)

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From: TELECOM Digest Editor
Subject: Digest New Sponsorship
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 20:57:06 -0400


I am pleased to welcome a new sponsor to the TELECOM Digest as of
today. Main Resource  http://www.MainResource.com has signed on
to serve readers here. I will let Alisa Meredith explain about
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You can see Ms. Meredith's ad on our home page,
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I hope all readers will stop in to say hello and review the products
offered at Main Resource. The shop is coincidentally located in the
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In other web site changes/additions, sometimes when I am very angry,
as I was after putting out the earlier issue on Thursday, #258, I 
look for ways to improve our own site here. I look for ways I can be
of service to the internet community, and I did that today with a few
new PSAs, or Public Service Announcments. I happen to believe that 
each of us who are entrusted with name space on the internet have
certain obligations to do things to help the overall community at
large. These are not profit-making things, but simple attempts to be
of service. 

For one, I repaired the link to the Hunger Site; by clicking there
each day (it is off our top, home page at http://telecom-digest.org )
you can donate food to hungry children and adults around the world;
just click where shown then read one of the messages from the Hunger
Site sponsors. Every time you click, another cup of food is given. You
do not pay anything. To see it at work now, look at
http://hungersite.com . People are not the only beings who get hungry
of course; injured and homeless animals living in shelters also need
your support. You can also make a click to
http://theanimalrescuesite.com and provide bowls of food for dogs and
cats. Again, no expense to yourself, simply read the ads provided by
Purina Chow and others who supply the actual food at no cost to the
shelters. Then last for today, I call your attention to the Missing
and Exploited Children's program, which is described on pages reached
through http://telecom-digest.org/missingkids.html .Please review the
javascript pictures there, then read about them on the page linked
through the javascript. I had to repair that Applet also to make it
work correctly.

Please review these new PSA things, human food, animal food, and
missing chidren. They are all on the front page of our web site
http://telecom-digest.org in the far right column, along with our
paid sponsors like Ms. Meredith, Mike Sandman, Judith Oppenheimer, 
Oklahoma State University and MIT. Thank you!

Patrick Townson

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From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Subject: Re: Why There Are Questions About GoDaddy
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:47:45 -0700
Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com


TELECOM Digest Editor queried Brad Houser brad.houser@gmail.com:

>> _Why_ can't a registrar be expected to screen potential or actual
>> spammers?

> Because they have no control. 

No. You're right, but the reason is wrong. They CAN de-register
spamming domains, and some do (GoDaddy is one of them; reports vary as
to how quick/consistent they are about it)

The real reason is that domain names are something you typically sign
up for online with no interaction with a human. That makes any decent
amount of screening quite difficult, if not impossible.

> Note that anyone with an internet connection can be their own host. In
> that case they need an ISP to connect through. Then you might ask how
> can ISPs screen people. Well, they can't. How would they determine
> what you plan on doing? They can enforce the service agreement and
> terminate you, but only if you do something bad.

There are a couple things that can be done beforehand like checking
spam blacklists, but that's about it, and at that point you'd need to
be very careful to use a BL that doesn't have false positives.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But landlords can (or not, as they
> wish) choose to rent an apartment to someone. If they get bad vibes
> about it, prior to rental, then they just don't rent. 

The landlord is also talking to the prospective tenant in person
before they rent. Do you think something similar happens with domain
name registrations?


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"Life's like an hourglass glued to the table"   --Anna Nalick, "Breathe"


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Of course not, the registrars are too
greedy to do anything but an automated sign up process. Terra World
(our local ISP) said that by requiring prospective users (and he
gets them from all over, not just s.e. Kansas) to actually _speak_ on
the phone and letting _them_ know that _he_ knows what they are about,
spam going out of that network is zilch, or nearly so. He has a couple
of high school/college age guys who work the 'help desk' there on 
nights and weekends. All smart kids, he gives them a print out of
new subscribers each day. The kids know what to look for, of course,
and tell Duane the next day if they see something askance. A spammer
who is exposed to daylight seldom continues doing it for very long.
Of course that may be why he does not get that many new customers; he
won't tolerate that spamming/scamming the way MCI does. When I worked
his help desk for a short time after my brain aneurysm I knew what to
look for also with new customers. But he still has a very successful
small ISP business.   PAT]

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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:21:15 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Verizon's Voice Mailboxes Now Give 'Shout Out' to Verizon


      Verizon's Voice Mailboxes Now Give 'Shout Out' to Verizon
      Wireless Phones When New Messages Arrive

Home and Business Customers in N.Y.C. and New England Can Receive TXT
Alerts on Their Verizon Wireless Phones

NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon home and business voice
mailboxes now can alert customers on their Verizon Wireless phone that
someone has left a message.

Starting today, Verizon voice-messaging customers in New York City and
New England can add a feature that sends a text message to any Verizon
Wireless short text messaging-capable phone with an alert that a new
voice message has been left on the customer's landline phone.

      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49739949


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: What is supposed to make that so
exceptional? Cingular Wireless has always had an icon on the display
screen indicating voice message waiting, and I have always had my 
phone set to make three chirps when that icon is turned on.   PAT]

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From: Gary Novosielski <gpn@suespammers.org>
Subject: Hatch Act
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:12:45 GMT


hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> Until around 1975 government employees were under many restrictions.
> There was a law, the Hatch Act, that prohibited politicking by
> government employees.  That made sense in the idea it was to avoid
> government employees serving as patronage or beholden to elected
> officials for their jobs.  Until that time Federal employees had to
> sign off that they weren't Communists.  They didn't even want to see
> bumper stickers on cars in employee parking lots.  They wanted the
> appearance of strict neutrality.

> The laws today are different. 

Not that different.

The Hatch Act, dated and obsolescent though it may be, is alive and
well in 2005.  It was tested here in New Jersey only a year or two ago
by a postal employee who attempted to run for Congress as a Green
Party candidate, explicitly to try to test (and if possible overturn)
the Hatch Act.  He got enough petition signatures to get on the
ballot, but the government got an injunction against his performing
any campaign activities, and when the case finally got to court
(District Court, or Circuit Court, or whatever; IANAL, obviously) the
judge upheld the Act in spite of all the excellent arguments that
could be made against it.

I think his name actually did appear on the ballot, but having not
been able to run a campaign, he got nowhere near enough votes to make
the election outcome anything but moot.

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From: HarryHydro <harryhydro@hotmail.com>
Subject: Microwave Fading 6 Gig
Date: 9 Jun 2005 12:45:17 -0700


Hi Folks:

    I wrote a qbasic program that scans 4 Alcatel radios.  It also
pages me on problems.  I was called almost 10 times around 1:30AM this
morning (6/9/05) and again around 4:00AM even more times!  My heel are
draggin'.  Anyway,  this has been going on for the last few days.
These are not stormy evenings, or even windy.  In the plots this
program makes, I see signals dropping, or maybe it's noise level
increasing, enough to break microwave paths.  This is 6gig stuff ... The
4 radios at this site point in different directions, and the radios
almost go wacky the same time, but not exactly.  For a half hour, the
signal on one radio faded to almost break while the others were doing
OK.  Sometimes the two receivers on one radio will fade together,
sometimes not. (diversity)  I've associated some of these to mag
storms, but most are weather related.  However, these last few days
have been pretty stable.

Could it be temperature inversions at 1:30 in the morning doing this?

Harry

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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:37:00 EDT
From: Carl Moore <cmoore@ARL.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Surgery 6 Days Ago


I am back on office email for the first time since June 2.  I had gall
bladder surgery on June 3.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Sorry to hear about it, Carl, and I am
sure other readers join me in wishing you a speedy recovery.  Carl is
one of our original, charter subscribers, dating back to the middle 
1980's here on the Digest.  PAT]

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From: richgr@panix.com (Rich Greenberg)
Subject:Last Laugh! Funny Telephone Picture
Date: 9 Jun 2005 13:45:49 -0400
Organization: Organized?  Me?



[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This orignally appeared two days
ago here, but due to a technical glitch in some parts of the
Useless Net distribution it got messed up; so here it is again
so that everyone can laugh at it.  PAT]

Take a look at:  http://www.jillsjokeline.com/canuhearme.shtml


Rich Greenberg Marietta, GA, USA richgr atsign panix.com    + 1 770 321 6507
Eastern time.  N6LRT  I speak for myself & my dogs only.   VM'er since CP-67
Canines:Val, Red & Shasta (RIP),Red, husky                   Owner:Chinook-L
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