TELECOM Digest     Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:00:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 333

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Feds Accuse Firms in Porn E-Mail Spam Scheme (Ted Bridis)
    Porn Spammers Pay $1.6 Million in Crackdown (Reuters News Wire)
    Spam-Fighting Technique Opposed by Some Netizens (Anick Jesdanun)
    Microsoft Buys Email Security Provider (Reuters News Wire)
    Report: VOIP Revenues to Reach $4B by 2010 (USTA DailyLead)
    Invitation to New York, Spain, and Italy; c/ba (IPSI Conferences)
    Cingular Wireless Posts Strong Second-Quarter Results (Monty Solomon)
    Re: Western Electric - Major Works - Status Today? (Jim Millick)
    Re: Prepaid + Pay phones (Joseph)
    Bell Telephone Music (Jim Haynes)

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From: Ted Bridis <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Feds Accuse Firms in Porn E-Mail Spam Scheme
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:55:11 -0500


By TED BRIDIS, AP Technology Writer

Federal regulators accused seven companies Wednesday of hiring others
to send illegal e-mails with pornographic messages to tempt consumers
to visit adult Internet sites.

The government said four of the firms already agreed to pay nearly
$1.2 million to settle the charges, making it among the most
aggressive government crackdowns on pornographic e-mail operations.

The Federal Trade Commission described the practice as "electronic
flashing" and said at least some of the unwanted e-mails were sent to
children. The threat of children unwittingly receiving smut in their
inboxes helped drive the U.S. government to impose restrictions on
sending commercial e-mails last year.

The FTC said the messages were not prominently marked "sexually
explicit," did not include instructions for consumers to block future
e-mails and did not include a postal address, all required under
federal law.

Consumers complained about receiving the pornographic e-mails and
forwarded copies of the troublesome messages to a special e-mail
address set up by the FTC (spam(at)uce.gov), said Jonathan M. Kraden,
an attorney with the agency's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "We
received thousands of messages," Kraden said.

The FTC said the seven companies did not send e-mails directly to
consumers but operated affiliate programs, paying others to send
unwanted messages to drive Internet traffic to adult Web sites. The
FTC said under the "Can Spam" law, defendants in such cases are liable
because they paid others to send e-mails on their behalf.

The government said investigators from Microsoft Corp. helped track
the companies. Microsoft, which operates its MSN online subscription
service and offers free "Hotmail" e-mail accounts, analyzed the
pornographic sites advertised in the unwanted e-mails to identify the
companies responsible, the FTC said.

The FTC said it directed the Justice Department to file civil lawsuits
against three of the companies: T.J. Web Productions LLC of Henderson,
Nev.; Cyberheat Inc. of Tucson, Ariz.; and Impulse Media Group Inc. of
Seattle.  The lawsuits seek unspecified payment to the government for
"every violation" of the federal anti-spam law.

The attorney for T.J. Web Productions, Lawrence G. Walters of
Altamonte Springs, Fla., said the company was still negotiating with
the Justice Department. Walters said there were "legitimate concerns
and legal variables" over the government's claims. "If necessary, our
client is prepared to litigate those issues," he said.

Executives with Cyberheat did not return telephone messages left by
The Associated Press. An executive with Impulse Media Group, Seth
Schermerhorn, declined to comment immediately.

The FTC said four of the companies agreed to settle cases against
them.  BangBros.com Inc. of Miami agreed to pay $650,000; MD Media of
Bingham Farms, Mich., agreed to pay $238,743; APC Entertainment
Inc. of Davie, Fla., will pay $220,000; and Pure Marketing Solutions
LLC of Miami and Internet Matrix Technology of New Orleans will
together pay $50,000, the FTC said.

The attorney for MD Media, Danny E. Adams of Kelley Drye in
Washington, did not immediately respond to a phone call and e-mail
request for comment. The phone numbers listed on Internet records for
BangBros.com and Pure Marketing Solutions were disconnected, and the
companies did not respond to e-mail requests for comment. Executives
for APC Entertainment did not respond to a telephone message from the
AP.


On the Net:

FTC: http://www.ftc.gov

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From: Reuters NewsWire   <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Porn Spammers Pay 1.6 Million in Spam Crackdown
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:53:53 -0500


Five pornography companies have agreed to pay $1.16 million in fines
for sending "spam" e-mail without a warning that it contains sexually
explicit material, U.S. regulators said on Wednesday.

Three other businesses also face lawsuits for sending improperly
labeled e-mail, the Federal Trade Commission said.

Under FTC rules, commercial e-mailers must include the phrase
"SEXUALLY EXPLICIT" in the subject lines of pornographic messages to
allow consumers to more easily filter them out.

Marketers also must ensure that the messages don't contain graphic sexual
images when they are first opened up.

The companies targeted in the crackdown didn't actually send out the
messages but are still liable because they hired others to do so, the
FTC said.

According to the FTC, BangBros.com Inc. of Florida agreed to pay
$650,000; MD Media of Michigan will pay $238,743, and APC
Entertainment Inc. of Florida will pay $220,000. Pure Marketing
Solutions and Internet Matrix Technology together will pay $50,000 to
settle the charges.

The companies also agreed to allow the FTC to monitor their operations
to make sure they comply with existing laws.

Three other companies also face lawsuits for improper labeling: TJ Web
Productions, based in Nevada; Cyberheat Inc. of Arizona; and Impulse
Media, of Washington State.

Microsoft Corp. helped in the investigation, the FTC said.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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From: Anick Jesdanun <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Spam Fighting Technique Fought by Some Netizens
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:57:33 -0500


By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer

Escalating the war on spam, a California company wants to let
thousands of users collaborate to disable the Web sites spammers use
to sell their wares.

A leading anti-spam advocate, however, criticized Blue Security Inc.'s
Blue Frog initiative as being no more than a denial-of-service attack,
the technique hackers use to effectively shut down a Web site by
overwhelming it with fake traffic.

"It's the worst kind of vigilante approach," said John Levine, a board
member with the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial
E-mail. "Deliberate attacks against people's Web sites are illegal."

Levine recalled a screen saver program that the Web portal Lycos
Europe distributed briefly last year. The program was designed to
overwhelm sites identified by Lycos as selling products pitched in
spam.

Eran Reshef, Blue Security's founder and chief executive, denied any
wrongdoing, saying Blue Frog was merely empowering users to
collectively make complaints they otherwise would have sent
individually.

Here's how the technique works:

_When users add e-mail addresses to a "do-not-spam" list, Blue
Security creates additional addresses, known as honeypots, designed to
do nothing but attract spam.

_If a honeypot receives spam, Blue Security tries to warn the
spammer. Then it triggers the Blue Frog software on a user's computer
to send a complaint automatically.

_Thousands complaining at once will knock out a Web site and thus
encourage spammers to stop sending e-mail to the "do-not-spam" list.

Reshef acknowledges that the technique only works if enough users --
say, 100,000 -- join. The program is initially free, but Reshef said
Blue Security might eventually charge new users.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So John Levine terms attempts to
disable spammers as 'illegal and the worst kind of vigilante
approach'.  My, oh my, I really bleed for the spammers. I wonder why his
complaints are not leveled instead at the spammers who try repeatedly
to shut down this site and many others because of the volume of spam
they send out?  Why is that, John?  I suggested to John I would start
using a 'challenge system' where each _legitimate_ writer to the
Digest was asked _once_ to type in some message they saw on their
screen which would show themselves to be approved, then at some
unannounced future time everyone who had not 'accepted the challenge'
would be trashed.  John's response to me was he would cut off Digest
mail entirely if I started challenging. He said a challenge system
would 'cause too much extra email to go back and forth.'  But somehow
my auto-ack (which I _flatly refuse_ to do away with) does not cause
'too much extra mail to go out'?  He had no answer for that, or none
that he would share with me. I think John has been hanging around too
much with the ICANN fools, going to their expensive and elaborate
vacations in Argentina and Europe.

Because of my administrative ability to deposit good, serious files in
the archives directly via email as desired, spammers/scammers now get
in there as well. I go in the archives each day or three to clean out
where they have defaced the archives, as well as the tons of spam
which get sent via email to this address. I guess I could shut down
that email backdoor, and probably I should not complain since it is
okay for spammers to shut down (or deface badly) our archives, but it
is not okay for me to join with others in shutting down spammer's web
sites?  Is that what John is saying? It is not okay to adopt a very
simple challenge system in order to be assured that real human beings,
no matter how whacky some of their ideas are reach the Digest but the
spammers do not?  Is that the way it should be? Out of self-defense,
no more, no less, I login here and immediatly go to the spam mail box
and do a general clean out without even reviewing it at all. I know
now and then as a result I lose good mail as well. Why does ICANN and
their buddies in essence give spammers and scammers free run of the
net while the rest of us are not being allowed to do the same?  Is it
because ICANN really wants to see the net as just a commercial thing
with no small insignificant users like myself left here any longer?
Some of you guys are so fond of telling us all the things that will
_not_ work to cure the spam problem, yet when _we_ tell you things
which will partly work, you threaten to ex-communicate us?  As the
late Jack Benny phrased it, 'really, Mary ...' I should be so lucky.
PAT]

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From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Microsoft to Buy E-Mail Security Provider
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:52:21 -0500


Microsoft Corp. the world's largest software maker, said on
Wednesday that it would buy FrontBridge Technologies Inc., its second
acquisition this year of an e-mail anti-virus protection provider.

FrontBridge provides an outsourcing service that allows companies to
have their e-mail and instant messaging scanned before it reaches
internal corporate networks. FrontBridge's subscription service also
allows companies to back up their messages and comply with
regulations.

In February, Microsoft said it would acquire Sybari Software Inc.,
which develops software that protects e-mail systems from worms and
viruses, as well as spam, or unsolicited e-mail.

Microsoft, which has had a major push over the last three years to
improve the reliability and security of its software, said it expected
to close the FrontBridge acquisition by the end of September. Terms of
the deal were not disclosed.

Asked if Microsoft planned to bundle FrontBridge's services with its
Exchange e-mail server business, Kim Akers, a marketing manager for
Exchange, said that FrontBridge would continue to offer its service
separately as an add-on to Microsoft's products.

"Basically what the customer gets is a clean e-mail stream," said
Akers.

The FrontBridge acquisition is the third major security
software-related acquisition for Microsoft in the last few years.

Last year, Microsoft bought Giant Company Software Inc. to offer
anti-spyware software, which blocks programs that generate unwanted
pop-up ads and secretly record a computer user's activities.

In 2003, Microsoft acquired anti-virus technology provider GeCAD.

Unlike Sybari, companies that use FrontBridge do not have to install
anti-virus software within their networks and instead pay a
subscription fee for such services.


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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:29:45 EDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Report: VoIP Revenues to Reach $4B by 2010


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Subject: Invitation to New York, Spain, and Italy
From: IPSI Conferences <ny2005@ipsiconferences.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:22:51 +0200


Dear potential Speaker:

On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to extend a
cordial invitation for you to submit a paper to the IPSI Transactions
journal, or to attend one of the upcoming IPSI BgD multidisciplinary,
interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary conferences.

The first one will take place in New York City, NY, USA:


IPS-USA-2006 NEW YORK
Hotel Beacon (arrival: 5 January 06 / departure: 8 January 06)
New Deadlines: 1 August 05 (abstract) & 1 October 05 (full paper)

The second one will take place in Marbella, Spain:

IPSI-2006 SPAIN
Hotel Puente Romano (arrival: 10 February 06 / departure: 13 February 06)
Deadlines: 1 September 05 (abstract) & 1 November 05 (full paper)

The third one will take place in Amalfi, Italy:


IPSI-2006 ITALY
Hotel Santa Caterina (arrival: 23 March 06 / departure: 26 March 06)
Deadlines: 1 October 05 (abstract) & 1 December 05 (full paper)

All IPSI BgD conferences are non-profit. They bring together the elite
of the world science; so far, we have had seven Nobel Laureates
speaking at the opening ceremonies. The conferences always take place
in some of the most attractive places of the world. All those who come
to IPSI conferences once, always love to come back (because of the
unique professional quality and the extremely creative atmosphere);
lists of past participants are on the web, as well as details of
future conferences.

These conferences are in line with the newest recommendations of the
US National Science Foundation and of the EU research sponsoring
agencies, to stress multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and
transdisciplinary research (M+I+T++ research). The speakers and
activities at the conferences truly support this type of scientific
interaction.

Among the main topics of these conferencs are: "E-education and
E-business with Special Emphasis on Semantic Web and Web Datamining"

Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Internet
* Computer Science and Engineering
* Mobile Communications/Computing for Science and Business
* Management and Business Administration
* Education
* e-Medicine
* e-Oriented Bio Engineering/Science and Molecular Engineering/Science
* Environmental Protection
* e-Economy
* e-Law
* Technology Based Art and Art to Inspire Technology Developments
* Internet Psychology

If you would like more information on either conference, please reply
to this e-mail message.

If you plan to submit an abstract and paper, please let us know
immediately for planning purposes. Remember that you can submit your
paper also to the IPSI Transactions journal.

Sincerely Yours,

Prof. V. Milutinovic, Chairman,
IPSI BgD Conferences

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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:57:48 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Cingular Wireless Posts Strong Second-Quarter Results


Cingular Wireless Posts Strong Second-Quarter Results, Advances Merger
Integration Initiatives

     - Net subscriber additions of 1.1 million, third consecutive
       quarter of more than 1 million postpaid net additions;

     - 51.6 million cellular/PCS subscribers at quarter's end;

     - Gross subscriber additions of 4.4 million;

     - Postpaid monthly subscriber churn down to 1.8 percent, third
       consecutive quarter of improved postpaid churn; total monthly
       churn at 2.2 percent;

     - A 340 basis-point sequential improvement in normalized OIBDA margin
       to 28.9%;

     - Continued progress in transitioning subscribers to GSM, with 90
       percent of minutes now on Cingular's GSM network.

ATLANTA, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Cingular Wireless, a joint venture
between SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) and BellSouth Corporation
(NYSE:BLS), today posted strong second-quarter results driven by
continued solid subscriber growth, improvement in margins and postpaid
churn, and strength in data and enterprise services.

For the quarter, the nation's largest wireless provider delivered net
subscriber additions of 1.1 million, nearly all of which were
postpaid.  Second-quarter postpaid net additions were comparable to
the number delivered in the first quarter of 2005, and represent the
third straight quarter of more than 1 million postpaid net additions.

Net additions in the second quarter were 2.5 times higher than pro
forma net additions in the year-ago second quarter.  (Pro forma
results reflect the acquisition of AT&T Wireless, plus related
acquisitions and dispositions, as if they had occurred on January 1,
2003.)  Cingular ended the second quarter of 2005 with 51.6 million
cellular/PCS subscribers.

Gross additions continue to be very strong at 4.4 million. Postpaid
churn improved sequentially to 1.8 percent -- a record low for the
company.  This compares to 1.9 percent in the first quarter of 2005
and to 2.1 percent (pro forma) in the fourth quarter of 2004.  Overall
churn held at 2.2, which was the same as in the first quarter of 2005,
primarily reflecting the transition of customers on former AT&T
Wireless prepaid plans.

As it sustained strong subscriber growth, Cingular also improved its
margins. OIBDA margin, normalized to exclude merger-related
integration costs, was 28.9 percent, a sequential improvement of 340
basis points.  (OIBDA margin is operating income (loss) before
depreciation and amortization, divided by total service revenues.)

     - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=50584069

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From: jsm@panix.com (Jim Millick)
Subject: Re: Western Electric - Major Works - Status Today?
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:09:43 UTC
Organization: Public Access Networks Corp.


From a Lucent friend, an article on Hawthorne Works:

  At one time, Cicero, IL, was famous for two things that
  had absolutely nothing in common: Al Capone and Western
  Electric. The blue-collar town on the West Side of Chicago
  served as headquarters for the notorious gangster. But,
  Cicero also was home to a sprawling manufacturing complex
  called the Hawthorne Works, which produced some of the
  most technically advanced products in the world.

http://www.assemblymag.com/CDA/ArticleInformation/coverstory/BNPCoverStoryItem/0,6490,98914,00.html

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From: Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Prepaid + Pay phones
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:07:20 -0700
Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com


On 20 Jul 2005 08:30:26 -0700, Duh_OZ <ozzy.kopec@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a pre-paid (MCI) card that used to charge 2 units for a call
> made from a pay phone.  At 6 cents/minute I didn't mind the 12 cent
> surcharge on the connection.  Sometime this year? they jacked it up to
> 18 units so it is now a whopping $1.08 surcharge for a pay phone call.
> Is there a site that compares how much surcharge there is from
> different calling cards?  I do not travel much and use the pay phones
> when in roaming territory for my cell phone.

Go to http://abtolls.com and look for CALLING CARD LONG DISTANCE PHONE
RATES.

It doesn't list every card, but you can see that most of them charge
between 30 and 65 cents per call.

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Subject: Bell Telephone Music
Reply-To: jhaynes@alumni.uark.edu
Organization: University of Arkansas Alumni
From: haynes@alumni.uark.edu (Jim Haynes)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:43:13 GMT


Check out this interesting web site:
http://libraries.mit.edu/music/sheetmusic/childpages/belltelephone.html

jhhaynes at earthlink dot net

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