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TELECOM Digest     Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:32:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 353

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Advertising com Settles FTC Adware/Spyware Charges (Reuters News Wire)
    Calling All Luddites: NY Times OpEd (Thomas L. Friedman)
    Comcast Reports Second Quarter 2005 Results (Monty Solomon)
    Analysts: ATMs Highly Vulnerable to Fraud (Monty Solomon)
    Time Warner Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2005 Results (Monty Solomon)
    Hackers Demonstrate Their Skills in Vegas (Monty Solomon)
    FCC Approves Sprint-Nextel Merger (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Re: Typical Business Telephone Sets Today? (J.P.)
    Re: Typical Business Telephone Sets Today? (davidesan@gmail.com)
    Re: Typical Business Telephone Sets Today? (T. Sean Weintz)
    Re: Typical Business Telephone Sets Today? (Tim@Backhome.org)
    Re: Looking For Good International Conference Call Service (Hallikainen)
    Re: Bell System and GTE Telephone Operator? (davidesan@gmail.com)
    Re: NYT's Friedman Calls For Better Wireless Access (Mark Crispin)
    Re: Credit Reports, was Re: AT&T Customers Taken Over (Steve Sobol)
    Re: Opinion Telegrams and Mailgrams (Chris Farrar)

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From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Advertising com Settles FTC Adware/Spyware Charges
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:39:17 -0500


An America Online Inc. subsidiary will no longer bundle its anti-spyware
program with software that tracks consumers' online habits and
force-feeds them pop-up ads, the Federal Trade Commission said on
Wednesday.

Advertising.com Inc. also agreed to regular check by the FTC in order
to settle a deceptive-advertising suit filed by the
consumer-protection agency.

Advertising.com, also known as Teknosurf.com, promoted its SpyBlast
program as a way to protect users' computers from "hackers," the FTC
charged. But those who downloaded the product also installed a
separate program that monitored their online behavior and served them
pop-up ads.

Such advertising programs, known as "adware," are considered a form of
spyware by many consumer advocates because consumers typically don't
know they're installing them.

Advertising.com didn't provide consumers with adequate notice that
SpyBlast came bundled with the adware program, the FTC charged.

Advertising.com did not admit or deny guilt as part of the settlement.

AOL, a division of Time Warner Inc. bought Advertising.com for $435
million in June 2004 and understood how Advertising.com's program
worked according to FTC's allegations.

An AOL spokesman said that Advertising.com had only been in the adware
business for a brief period during 2003. The company makes most of its
money by selling banner ads, spokesman Andrew Weinstein said.

"They were not in this business when we purchased them," Weinstein said.
"Advertising.com does not now and will not in the future distribute
adware products."  FTC did not agree that "Advertising.com was not in
'that business' when it was purchased by AOL" and contended they were
still in 'that business' anyway. FTC said that "either way, we think 
that Advertising.com, and its parent AOL, under the terms of its
supervision by FTC, will definitly be out of 'that business' in the
future. Banner ads are okay, Adware, no more." 

The House of Representatives in May voted to stiffen jail sentences and
establish multimillion-dollar fines for spyware purveyors. The Senate
has not yet acted on the bill.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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From: Thomas L. Friedman <ntytimes@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Calling All Luddites
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:44:15 -0500


By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

I've been thinking of running for high office on a one-issue platform:
I promise, if elected, that within four years America will have
cellphone service as good as Ghana's. If re-elected, I promise that in
eight years America will have cellphone service as good as Japan's,
provided Japan agrees not to forge ahead on wireless technology. My
campaign bumper sticker: "Can You Hear Me Now?"

I began thinking about this after watching the Japanese use cellphones
and laptops to get on the Internet from speeding bullet trains and
subways deep underground. But the last straw was when I couldn't get
cellphone service while visiting I.B.M.'s headquarters in Armonk, N.Y.

But don't worry -- Congress is on the case. It dropped everything last
week to pass a bill to protect gun makers from shooting victims'
lawsuits. The fact that the U.S. has fallen to 16th in the world in
broadband connectivity aroused no interest. Look, I don't even like
cellphones, but this is not about gadgets. The world is moving to an
Internet-based platform for commerce, education, innovation and
entertainment. Wealth and productivity will go to those countries or
companies that get more of their innovators, educators, students,
workers and suppliers connected to this platform via computers, phones
and P.D.A.'s.

A new generation of politicians is waking up to this issue. For
instance, Andrew Rasiej is running in New York City's Democratic
primary for public advocate on a platform calling for wireless (Wi-Fi)
and cellphone Internet access from every home, business and school in
the city. If, God forbid, a London-like attack happens in a New York
subway, don't trying calling 911. Your phone won't work down there. No
wireless infrastructure. This ain't Tokyo, pal.

At the City Hall subway stop this morning, Mr. Rasiej plans to show
how one makes a 911 call from the subway. He will have one aide with a
tin can in the subway send a message to another aide holding a tin can
connected by a string. Then the message will be passed by tin can and
string up to Mr. Rasiej on the street, who will call 911 with his
cellphone.

"That is how you say something if you see something today in a New
York subway -- tin cans connected to someone with a cellphone on the
street," said Mr. Rasiej, a 47-year-old entrepreneur who founded an
educational-technology nonprofit.

Mr. Rasiej wants to see New York follow Philadelphia, which decided it
wouldn't wait for private companies to provide connectivity to all.
Instead, Philly made it a city-led project - like sewers and
electricity. The whole city will be a "hot zone," where any resident
anywhere with a computer, cellphone or P.D.A. will have cheap
high-speed Wi-Fi access to the Internet.

Mr. Rasiej argues that we can't trust the telecom companies to make
sure that everyone is connected because new technologies, like free
Internet telephony, threaten their business models. "We can't trust
the traditional politicians to be the engines of change for how people
connect to their government and each other," he said. By the way, he
added, "If New York City goes wireless, the whole country goes
wireless."

Mr. Rasiej is also promoting civic photo-blogging -- having people use
their cellphones to take pictures of potholes or crime, and then,
using Google maps, e-mailing the pictures and precise locations to
City Hall.

Message: In U.S. politics, the party that most quickly absorbs the
latest technology often dominates. F.D.R. dominated radio and the
fireside chat; J.F.K., televised debates; Republicans, direct mail and
then talk radio, and now Karl Rove's networked voter databases.

The technological model coming next -- which Howard Dean accidentally
uncovered but never fully developed - will revolve around the power of
networks and blogging. The public official or candidate will no longer
just be the one who talks to the many or tries to listen to the many.
Rather, he or she will be a hub of connectivity for the many to work
with the many -- creating networks of public advocates to identify and
solve problems and get behind politicians who get it.

"One elected official by himself can't solve the problems of eight
million people," Mr. Rasiej argued, "but eight million people
networked together can solve one city's problems. They can spot and
offer solutions better and faster than any bureaucrat. ... The party
that stakes out this new frontier will be the majority party in the
21st century. And the Democrats better understand something -- their
base right now is the most disconnected from the network."

Can you hear me now?

Copyright 2005 New York Times Company

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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 22:32:57 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Comcast Reports Second Quarter 2005 Results


Revenue Increased 10.5% to $5.6 Billion

Operating Income Increased 23.2% to $1.0 Billion

Operating Cash Flow Increased 13.2% to $2.2 Billion
20th Consecutive Quarter of Double-Digit Growth

Growth in New Services Continues 
Added 1.1 Million Revenue Generating Units
During the First Half of 2005 Including 507,000 During the Second Quarter

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Comcast Corporation
(Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) today reported results for the quarter ended
June 30, 2005.  Comcast will discuss second quarter results on a
conference call and webcast today at 8:30 AM Eastern Time.  A live
broadcast of the conference call will be available on the investor
relations website at http://www.cmcsa.com and http://www.cmcsk.com .

     - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=50846672

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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 22:36:32 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Analysts: ATMs Highly Vulnerable to Fraud


By BRIAN BERGSTEIN AP Technology Writer

BOSTON (AP) -- By failing to scan security codes in the magnetic
strips on ATM and debit cards, many banks are letting thieves get away
with an increasingly common fraud at a cost of several billion dollars
a year.

A report Tuesday from Gartner Inc., a technology analyst firm,
estimates that 3 million U.S. consumers were victims of ATM and
debit-card fraud in the past year.

The fraud most commonly begins when a criminal engages in "phishing" _
sending a legitimate-seeming e-mail with a link to a phony Web site
that appears to belong to a consumer's bank, Gartner analyst Avivah
Litan believes. The e-mail recipients are asked to give their account
information, including PIN numbers.

With that information "harvested," fraudsters can make their own cards
for automated teller machines and withdraw huge sums.

This should be easily preventable, because the magnetic strips on
cards contain multiple tracks. One track has data such as the user's
name and account number. A second track contains special security
codes that card users don't know. That means the information can't be
squeezed out of them in a phishing attack.

Duplicating the codes would require inside knowledge of a bank's
security procedures, Litan said. (The inclusion of security codes in
records held by a credit and debit card processor, CardSystems
Solutions Inc., made that company's massive data breach disclosed this
spring especially dangerous.)

Surprisingly, Litan said, perhaps half of U.S. financial institutions
have not programmed their ATM systems to check the security codes.
Con artists specifically seek out customers of banks that do not
validate the second track on the strip, she said.

Litan believes many banks simply didn't know about the vulnerability.
Others may have once scanned the codes but stopped because using the
codes requires that customers go to a bank and have an ATM card
rewritten whenever they want to change their PINs.

That was a costly step that many banks figured they could avoid in
pre-phishing days when ATM fraud was rare.

      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=50863070

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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 22:39:47 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Time Warner Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2005 Results


NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 2005--Time Warner Inc.
(NYSE:TWX)

    --  Company Reaches Agreement in Principle to Resolve Its Primary
        Securities Class Action Litigation and Reserves $3 Billion
        Related to All Pending Securities Litigation Matters

    --  Board of Directors Authorizes $5 Billion Stock Repurchase
        Program

Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) today reported financial results for its
second quarter ended June 30, 2005. The Company also announced that it
has reached an agreement in principle to resolve its primary
securities class action litigation and established reserves of $3
billion related to this and all other related securities litigation
matters. In addition, Time Warner's Board of Directors has authorized
a $5 billion stock repurchase program over the next two years.

     - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=50881109

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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 22:47:08 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Hackers Demonstrate Their Skills in Vegas


By GREG SANDOVAL AP Technology Writer

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Even the ATM machines were suspect at this year's
Defcon conference, where hackers play intrusion games at the bleeding
edge of computer security.

With some of the world's best digital break-in artists pecking away at
their laptops, sending e-mails or answering cell phones could also be
risky.

Defcon is a no-man's land where customary adversaries _ feds vs.
digital mavericks _ are supposed to share ideas about making the
Internet a safer place. But it's really a showcase for flexing hacker
muscle.

This year's hot topics included a demonstration of just how easy it
may be to attack supposedly foolproof biometric safeguards, which
determine a person's identity by scanning such things as thumb prints,
irises and voice patterns.

Banks, supermarkets and even some airports have begun to rely on such
systems, but a security analyst who goes by the name Zamboni
challenged hackers to bypass biometrics by attacking their backend
systems networks. "Attack it like you would Microsoft or Linux," he
advised.

Radio frequency identification tags that send wireless signals and
that are used to track a growing list of items including retail
merchandise, animals and U.S. military shipments_ also came under
scrutiny.

A group of twentysomethings from Southern California climbed onto the
hotel roof to show that RFID tags could be read from as far as 69
feet. That's important because the tags have been proposed for such
things as U.S. passports, and critics have raised fears that
kidnappers could use RFID readers to pick traveling U.S. citizens out
of a crowd.

RFID companies had said the signals didn't reach more than 20 feet,
said John Hering, one of the founders of Flexilis, the company that
conducted the experiment.

      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=50877421

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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:41:57 EDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: FCC Approves Sprint-Nextel merger


USTelecom dailyLead
August 4, 2005
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=23601&l=2017006

		TODAY'S HEADLINES
	
NEWS OF THE DAY
* FCC approves Sprint-Nextel merger
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Wireless networks are vulnerable, hackers say
* Alcatel, Amdocs focus on IPTV
* MCI launches wholesale VoIP service
* 7-Eleven answers call for phone service
* Alltel, Iowa Telecom report earnings
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT 
* Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act -- What It Means to
  Your Business -- Friday, Aug. 5, 11 AM (ET)
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
* Comcast details digital simulcast plans
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* Continental feuds with Boston airport over Wi-Fi
* China to merge electronics companies

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=23601&l=2017006

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From: J.P. <jp@jpnearl.com.nospam>
Subject: Re: Typical Business Telephone Sets Today?
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:13:44 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> My department at my employer uses plain 2500 style telephone sets
> under a Centrex system.  I kind of assumed they were still common
> place, but I understand now that they're kind of unusual?  I heard
> caller-ID is very common on business phones, is that true?

> [public replies, please]

Unfortunately everyone wants one button access to features and such and 
displays with caller ID, length of call, etc. so you're seeing less and 
less of the 2500-style phones on office desks these days.

One of the things I appreciated about the Executone IDS systems I used
to maintain is that the "wave" desk phones had 2500-style keypads on
them instead of the keypads found on the new business system phones
(buttons wrong size, a 'mushy' feel to them, etc.).  Nothing beats
those old tried and true keypads.

J.P. Wing

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From: davidesan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Typical Business Telephone Sets Today?
Date: 4 Aug 2005 08:14:12 -0700


And don't you just hate it when the voicemail system asks for your
account code so they "can better process your call" and the very first
thing that the human operator asks for is your account number?


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Actually, in the case of human
operators, its not a bad thing that they ask first for your account
number or other identifying feature. While you are on the line 
explaining your problem, the better trained agents can be scanning
your account as you are speaking, and frequently have an intelligent
and correct answer for you when you have finished stating your 
problem. Would you prefer that they listen politely to your problem, 
_then_ ask for your account number, go away, and come back in a minute
or two with an answer?  Even for automated systems, the several
seconds required for voicemail to give its spiel is time the system
can be spinning its disk drives and looking up your account if it
knows your name and identity.  PAT]

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From: T. Sean Weintz <strap@hanh-ct.org>
Subject: Re: Typical Business Telephone Sets Today?
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:40:30 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> My department at my employer uses plain 2500 style telephone sets
> under a Centrex system.  I kind of assumed they were still common
> place, but I understand now that they're kind of unusual?  I heard
> caller-ID is very common on business phones, is that true?

Every office I have ever worked in has had a PBX system using some
sort of proprietary keysets.

Every office I have ever worked in since '95 has had keysets with an
LCD display that (amomg other things) displays caller ID.

Centrex is a ripoff IMO. Especially for offices where most of the
calling is in-house. Why pay for a line for each station when say only
20% of your calls ever go outside the building?


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Even in the case of Centrex it is very
rare that telco provides an _actual wire pair to the outside_ for
every phone thus equipped. Using Erlang or other formulas, they decide
a ten or fifteen percent ratio of wire pairs to usage at any given
time is sufficient. When calls come in from outside, something like
ANI examines the number dialed, chooses an idle pair and rings the
desired extension. On outgoing calls (even on centrex you still have
to dial '9' first) the equipment looks at the outgoing line, uses its
ID number to detirmine what caller ID to send to the called party,
etc. If a centrex user ever dials '9' for an outside line and gets
a fast busy response, it means one of two things: either the phone
in question is not given outside dialing privileges _or_ the limited
number of trunk lines is totally in use. And with centrex, your call
(inside or outside the customer premises) is still taken to the 
telco central office for processing, even if the end result is the
call is, following processing, sent right back inside your premises
as a 'station to station call'.  Remember that 'centrex' means that
telco has your 'PBX' on its premises rather than in your office. 
Otherwise calls in or out are handled about the same way and with the
same rules in place.   PAT]

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From: Tim@Backhome.org
Subject: Re: Typical Business Telephone Sets Today?
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 01:20:43 -0700
Organization: Cox Communications


> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Caller ID _is_ very common on business
> phone systems these days. For instance, when I call either Atmos
> Energy (gas supplier) or Westar (electric utility) they answer with
> voice mail of course, but after a couple minutes of chatter while they
> tell me 'our menu has changed, listen to all options' then the voice
> mail on both tells me "based on your caller ID, you are located at
> (street number); if yes, press one, if no, press two", etc.  And far
>  from using 'old fashioned' 2500 style sets, they sit in a room with
> little keypads attached to computer terminals. They seem to emphasize
> your address, since they need to know where to show up to work on the
> wires or gas pipes, etc. PAT]

I called one of the credit reporting services 800 numbers the other
day.  The robot that answered the call told me that it would provide
information applicable to my area code.

Not real smart as my primary Vonage number is in Washington, DC but I
live in California. ;-)

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From: harold@hallikainen.com <harold@hallikainen.com>
Subject: Re: Looking For a Good International Conference Call Service
Date: 4 Aug 2005 08:02:22 -0700


http://www.sipphone.com offers free conferencing for its users. On the
sip network, you dial 1 747 222 1234 where 1234 is a random number you
choose. Everyone who calls that number at that time is connected
together. There are dial in numbers from PSTN at various points around
the US, and perhaps the world, but it seems simplest to just hook a
sip adapter between a phone and the internet, or to use a "soft-phone"
(free ones listed on their home page).

Harold

FCC Rules updated daily at http://www.hallikainen.com

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From: davidesan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Bell System and GTE Telephone Operator?
Date: 4 Aug 2005 08:18:41 -0700


The TV show was called "GOOD Times".  Among the various stars was a
young Janet Jackson.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Yeah, my error, sorry. It was set in
one of the Chicago Housing Authority buildings on the south side of
town. PAT]

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From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Subject: Re: NYT's Friedman Calls For Better Wireless Access
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 08:59:21 -0700
Organization: University of Washington


On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> A New York Times columnist, Friedman, calls today (8/3/05) for better
> wireless access in the United States.  He says many foreign countries
> have better systems than we do and they will have the competitive edge
> on the US as a result.

Well he to take a look at a map and consider the differences in
geography and demographics.  It's pretty easy to have good wireless
coverage in densely-populated postage-stamp sized countries,
especially when not encumbered by zoning ("you are NOT going to put
that tower where I can see it!").

It is also advisable to consider geography.  Japan is no slouch when
it comes to wireless, yet there are numerous dead zones in big cities.
Any honest coverage map of Japan will show that there is no coverage
at all in the sparsely-populated mountainous interior of Japan; the
coverage is in the big cities which are all on the coasts.  I know
from personal experience that you lose service as soon as you get a
few kilometers from the urban core.

I also know from personal experience that there are numerous dead
zones in London.

Now, if two relatively small island nations have problems, consider
wireless coverage issues in a large continental nation, and you have
the situation faced by Canada, the US, and Mexico.

-- Mark --

http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.

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From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Subject: Re: Credit Reports, was Re: AT&T Customers Taken Over By Alltel
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:10:37 -0700
Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com


Charles Cryderman wrote:

> reporting company TRW. In it they talked about how many military
> personnel would have credit issues due to deployment. It also stated
> that all "Credit Reporting Companies" were required to provide, upon
> written request, copies of your credit report (address was provided
> for TRW). I then sat down and requested a copy to see if it
> worked. About 6 weeks later I did receive a copy and saw that only the
> credit I had requested was posted and that I was in good standing. I

Maybe you got special consideration as a soldier. Perhaps enlisted men
and women got a special deal because it wouldn't be easy for them to
deal with credit issues overseas ... But as far as I know, the rest of
us were not entitled to any free reports unless we were denied credit
or employment (as I posted earlier) or if there was a state law
specifying we were not to be charged. There have been some state laws
on the books prior to this past year.


Steve Sobol, Professional Geek   888-480-4638   PGP: 0xE3AE35ED
Company website: http://JustThe.net/
Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/
E: sjsobol@JustThe.net Snail: 22674 Motnocab Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307

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Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:47:39 -0400
From: Chris Farrar <cfarrar1307@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: Opinion Telegrams and Mailgrams 


TELECOM Digest Editor wrote in response:

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Does anyone remember when we used to 
> have _two_ mail deliveries each day as a routine thing, and when
> postage cost only a few pennies at that?   PAT]

Pat, I wouldn't complain too much about the US Postal Service.  Take a 
look at what the mail service is like in your neighbor to the north.

Canada Post doesn't deliver on Saturdays. If you buy a home in a new
subdivision, you will NEVER get mail delivery to your door.  If you
build a house on a vacant lot, in between 2 houses that have mail
delivery, you still will NEVER have mail delivery.  You will have to
go to a "super-mailbox", essentially a post office box somewhere
within a several block radius of your house.

Chris

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