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TELECOM Digest Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:46:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 401 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Katrina Rescuers Improvise Communications (Bruce Myerson) High Definition TV Starts Slowly; Developers Hopeful (Reuters News Wire) Microsoft and Google Continue Court Fight Over Ex-Employee (R. Stevenson) Breaking Glaciers Imperil Arctic Lifestyle (Jan Olson) Online Usage Plummets in Battered Gulf (Monty Solomon) Phones, Computers Coming to Astrodome (Monty Solomon) Re: RIP, Sussex Cellular (Isaiah Beard) Re: Is Verizon Wireless Sabotaging Older Cell Phones? (Isaiah Beard) Re: Dear comp.dcom.telecom Readers (Kevin Buhr) Re: Is Malware Hiding in Your Windows Registry? (Dave Close) Last Laugh! I Called You Last Week Mortgage SCAM!!! (Steven Lichter) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Meyerson <ap@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Katrina Rescuers Improvise Communications Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:55:08 -0500 By BRUCE MEYERSON, AP Business Writer When the phones don't work, improvise. That's what emergency responders and civilians were forced to do in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which trashed the telephone system on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Police in New Orleans, their main communications system knocked out, have been taking turns talking on a single radio channel with their walkie talkies. The Mississippi National Guard even resorted to ancient battlefield tactics, sending runners back and forth among commanders with information. And a local sheriff, Sid Hebert of Iberia Parish, helped keep an ambulance company handling medical evacuations across southern Louisiana running by loaning it a portable command center. "He personally drove it to (our headquarters). He got us back on the air," said Richard Zuschlag, chief executive of Acadian Ambulance Service Inc. By Thursday, nearly 10,000 satellite-based wireless phones had poured into the hurricane zone to coordinate relief efforts by federal disaster personnel and Red Cross workers, said service providers Globalstar LLC and Iridium Satellite LLC. But satellite phones were spread far more thinly among the ranks of local public safety personnel and emergency responders. Before the storm, a few thousand satellite phones at most were in use across the three-state region hit by the hurricane, and perhaps only a few hundred of those were in the hands of local authorities, including at least four Louisiana Parishes. Though government officials have never before had to contemplate a communciations breakdown of this magnitude, it was not immediately clear -- with $8.6 billion in federal money handed out to states since September 11 for emergency preparedness -- why more satellite communciations systems were not in place. Without such handsets, the most drenched and devastated areas of the Gulf Coast were cut off from the outside world in more ways than one. The grim TV footage showing a collapsed bridge that once crossed Lake Pontchartrain, one of the main roadways into New Orleans, make it clear why evacuations have been so difficult. That bridge also happened to hold the fiber-optic cables that transported calls and Internet traffic to and from the city as well. While every major phone company has been scrambling to patch its way into the city and other hard-hit areas using alternate routes and backup equipment, it could be some time before many local phone and Internet lines are back in service to receive calls and data. BellSouth Corp., the local phone provider for much of the region, said about 1.6 million customers could be without phone service in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. The company said it was able to restore service for about 150,000 customers between Wednesday and Thursday. In the meantime, emergency personnel were often struggling to communicate as they dealt with desperate circumstances. In New Orleans, police officers crowded a single frequency on their patrol radios. "That has posed some problems with people talking over each other," said Warren Riley, the deputy police chief. "We probably have 20 agencies on one channel right now." Worse, with little power to recharge their batteries, some of those radios were running out of juice. Riley said the police were setting up a new communication system next to the Superdome and waiting for a generator to fire it up later Thursday. In storm-ravaged southern Mississippi, the national guard was doing things the old-fashioned way. "We've got runners running from commander to commander," said Maj. Gen. Harold Cross of the Mississippi National Guard. "In other words, we're going to the sound of gunfire, as we used to say during the Revolutionary War." Restoring phone service isn't merely a matter of waiting for the flood waters to recede and restoring power. While many cables may be salvageable, the electronics that pass the signals across those lines will need to be replaced. "It's essentially analogous to putting a PC in your bathtub. It's not going to work once it dries," said Jim Gerace, a spokesman for Verizon Wireless. Associated Press Writers Jennifer Kerr, Brian Skoloff and Brett Martel contributed to this report. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ From: van Grinsven and Prodhan <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: High Definition TV Starts Slowly, Makers Hopeful Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:57:50 -0500 By Lucas van Grinsven and Georgina Prodhan Armin Schoenfelder would love to buy a television set that is ready for high definition broadcasts but the German engineer wants to spend no more than 900 euros, while the sets start at twice his budget. "Sure I'm interested, but I'm looking at the prices," the 68-year-old said as he browsed at the Saturn electronics store in Frankfurt. Salesman Mathias Kerscher, 25, is not convinced about high definition television (HDTV) yet, because no German channel is broadcasting in the high-quality format yet. "Until there's a better signal, I don't see any point," he said. The two men illustrate the hurdles the consumer electronics industry must overcome to promote HDTV: a weak European economy and lack of high-quality broadcasts. Yet at the bi-annual consumer electronics trade show IFA in Berlin, once the launch platform for DVD, big TV set producers draw confidence from market research that suggests HDTV may grow faster than black-and-white television did. It took 25 years for 80 percent of households to own a black-and-white TV, a percentage forecast to be hit within 15 years by "High Def" households. It took color TV some 21 years, according to a study by Euroconsult and NPA Conseil. Consumers are now much quicker to pick up the latest gadgets to receive TV broadcasts. In France, it took only five years before 2 million homes had purchased a flat TV, a period after which barely 0.5 million homes had a color TV. Flat screens are not equivalent to HDTV but many of the new plasma and liquid crystal display (LCD) sets are able to reflect the 1080 viewable lines of HDTV, creating a picture that has five times more detail than standard definition television. LONG TIME COMING Unlike the picture quality of HDTV, the launch date of the technology is far from razor sharp. Research began in the United States as early as 1970 and became serious in 1974 with the HDTV study of the International Telecommunications Union. It took nearly two decades to set a world standard, after which the United States kicked off the change-over. In Europe, the electronics industry and the European Union agreed in 1992 to start HDTV as soon as 1999 but the first channel began service in 2004 and 1080 will remain the only one until joined by Germany's premium channel Premiere in November. "There has been a widespread view in the industry that HDTV itself has failed," a working paper by the European Commission said in 2004. One reason the first incarnation of HDTV was late was that the industry first planned an analog version and then realised it had to shift to digital, which makes more efficient use of radio spectrum and network capacity. "I share the sense of frustration that it's been slow to happen, but the wave has begun," the European president of consumer electronics giant and TV market leader Sony Corp. Chris Deering, told Reuters. U.S. LEADS The United States has led the charge to HDTV and 10 percent of homes are ready for the new technology. Government regulation and HDTV broadcast targets have contributed to this achievement, while Europe has decided to let the market set the pace. "The market has to drive it in Europe, more than in other places," Deering said. The soccer World Cup may give HDTV the boost it has been waiting for, said Premiere's head Georg Kofler. "Ahead of the 1974 World Cup, many TV households swapped their black-and-white TV sets for a color TV. We are expecting a similar drive through next year's World Cup," Kofler said at a news conference at IFA. Booz Allen Hamilton consultants expect Europe to cross the 10 percent penetration mark in 2008. This is a significant threshold, because it brings a HDTV set close to every home. "All we need is a set on every block, so people can see what it's like, at the neighbors," Deering said, adding that he is more bullish than even his own company, which expects aggregated market sales of 20 million "HD ready" sets by 2008. "I think it will happen at an accelerated pace, with initiatives such as those of Sky in the United Kingdom, which has very big plans for HDTV. There are also initiatives in France, Germany, Italy and also by the BBC in Britain. Britain will probably be one the early adopters, and a lot of broadcasters look and learn from the BBC," he said. HDTV may be adopted quicker in Europe than in the United States because of recording equipment such as the new generation of high-density DVD recorders, HD DVD and Blu-ray. Rapid adoption by broadcasters will finally push European TV producers to start using HDTV recording equipment, which is already a pre- requisite for U.S.-based TV producers -- 70 percent of U.S. prime-time broadcasts are in HDTV. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ From: Reed Stevenson <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Microsoft Sues Google Over Ex-Employee Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:57:28 -0500 By Reed Stevenson Microsoft Corp. asked a county judge on Friday to stop its newest rival Google Inc. from hiring a senior executive familiar with the world's largest software maker's plans in China. Microsoft, which already won a temporary restraining order last month to stop former vice president Kai-Fu Lee from starting his job at Google, stepped up its efforts to block Lee from working at Google by asking King County Superior Court Judge Steven Gonzalez for a preliminary injunction against hiring Lee. Microsoft argued in its motion that Lee, the former head of its Beijing research and development center, is violating a non-compete contract that he signed with Microsoft because he has intimate knowledge of Microsoft's operations in China, its competitive strategy against Google and recruiting efforts. "Allowing Dr. Lee to 'turn on a dime' and use this highly confidential information to do directly competing work for Google would undermine the most basic purpose of Dr. Lee's non-compete and non-disclosure promises to Microsoft," Microsoft argued in the court documents. Google disagreed, saying that Microsoft was "behaving as if they own Kai-Fu." "Kai-Fu wanted to work at Google, he told us that and we hired him. There's nothing illegal about that, that's fair game," Google's associate general counsel Nicole Wong, said in an e-mailed statement, "He's not going to work on anything at Google that is competitive with what he did at Microsoft." Microsoft and Google are locked in competition over search and other Web-based technologies, as well as for top software talent. Google plans to open a new facility in China later this year to develop new technologies and attract computer science researchers. A final location has not yet been chosen. Lee, a former Carnegie Mellon University researcher who previously worked for Apple Computer Inc., most recently oversaw groups at Microsoft developing speech recognition and other interactive technologies for computers. Google, based in Mountain View, California, counter-sued in its home state last month to block Microsoft's lawsuit and was set to contest the temporary restraining order next week in Washington state. The trial is scheduled for January 9, 2006, but Microsoft said that it is trying to fast-track legal proceedings because its non-compete contract with Lee is only effective for one year after his last day at Microsoft, which was July 18." Microsoft argued in Friday's filing that Lee had begun working with Google well before his last working day at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington. "As a senior Microsoft executive, Dr. Lee had frequent access to highly confidential competitive plans including plans to compete with Google," Microsoft said in its motion. According to Microsoft, Lee attended an internal briefing at Microsoft on March 24 for the software giant's top executives entitled "The Google Challenge" which Microsoft described as "highly confidential." Microsoft also detailed in its motion the pay package that Lee negotiated with Google, which was worth over $10 million, including a $2.5 million signing bonus, a $250,000 yearly salary, stock options worth more than $5 million and other perks. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ From: Jan M. Olson <ap@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Breaking Glaciers Imperil Arctic Lifestyle Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:59:49 -0500 By JAN M. OLSEN, Associated Press Writer Watching the gargantuan chunks of ice break off the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier and thunder into an Arctic fjord is a spectacular sight. To Greenland's Inuit population, it is also deeply worrisome. The frequency and size of the crumbling blocks are a powerful reminder that the ice sheet covering the world's largest island is thinning, which scientists say is one of the most glaring examples of global warming. "In the past we could walk on the ice in the fjord between the icebergs for a six-month period during the winter, drill holes and fish," said Joern Kristensen, a local fisherman. "We can only do that for a month or two now. It has become more difficult to drive dogs sleds because the ice between the icebergs isn't solid anymore." In 2002-2003, a six-mile stretch of the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier broke off and drifted silently out of the fjord near Ilulissat, Greenland's third largest town, 155 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Although Greenland is the prime example, scientists say the effects of climate change are noticeable throughout the Arctic region, from the northward spread of spruce beetles in Canada to melting permafrost in Alaska and northern Russia. Indigenous people who for centuries have adapted their lives to the cold, fear that the changes, however small and gradual, could have a profound impact. "We can see a trend that the fall is getting longer and wetter," said Lars-Anders Baer, a political leader for Sweden's indigenous Sami, a once-nomadic people with a long tradition of reindeer herding. "If the climate gets warmer, it is probably bad for the reindeer. New species (of plants) come in and suffocate other plants that are the main food for the reindeer," he said. Rising temperatures are also a concern in the Yamalo-Nenets region in Western Siberia, said Alexandr Navyukhov, 49. He is an ethnic nenet, a group that mostly lives off hunting, fishing and deer breeding. "We now have breams in our river, which we didn't have in the past because that fish is typical for warmer regions," he said. "On the one hand it may look like good news, but breams are predatory fish that prey upon fish eggs, often of rare kinds of fish." Melting permafrost has damaged hundreds of buildings, railway lines, airport runways and gas pipelines in Russia, according to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, a report commissioned by the Arctic Council and released in 2004. Research has also shown that populations of turbot, Atlantic cod and snow crab are no longer found in some parts of the Bering Sea, an important fishing zone between Alaska and Russia, and that flooding along the Lena River, one of Siberia's biggest, has increased with warming temperatures. In Greenland, Anthon Utuaq, a 68-year-old retired hunter, said he is worried a warmer climate will make it more difficult for his son to continue the family trade. "Maybe it will be difficult for him to find the seals," Utuaq said, resting on a bench in the east coast town of Kulusuk. "They will head north to colder places if it gets warmer." Arctic sea ice has decreased by approximately 8 percent, or 386,100 square miles over the past 30 years. In Sisimiut, Greenland's second-largest town, lakes have doubled in size in the last decade. "Greenland was perceived as this huge solid place that would never melt," said Robert Corell of the American Meteorological Society. "The evidence is now so strong that the scientific community is convinced that global warming is the cause." Climate change has been a hotly discussed issue for decades, but efforts to fight it have moved slowly. There is not even unanimity on how much of the problem is a result of human activity, notably the burning of fossil fuels, and how much of it can be attributed to natural processes. "We know that temperatures have gone up and it's partly caused by man. But let's hold our horses because it's not everywhere that the ice is melting. In the Antarctic, only 1 percent is melting," said Bjoern Lomborg, a Danish researcher who claims the threat of global warming has been exaggerated. What is clear is that the average ocean temperature off Greenland's west coast has risen in recent years -- from 38.3 F to 40.6 F and glaciers have begun to retreat, said Carl Egede Boeggild, a glaciologist with Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, a government agency. The Sermilik glacier in southern Greenland has retreated 6.84 miles, and the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier near Ilulissat also is moving at a faster pace, said Henrik Hoejmark Thomsen of the geological survey. In 1967, satellite imagery measured it moving at 4.3 miles per year. In 2003, it was twice that -- 8.1 miles per year. "What exactly happened, we don't know but it appears to be the effect of climate change," said Hoejmark Thomsen. Last month, U.S. scientists issued a report saying the rate of ice melting in the Arctic is increasing and within a century could lead to summertime ice-free ocean conditions not seen in the area in a million years, but they also note that the United States will not participate in efforts to stem the global warming. With warmer temperatures, some bacteria, plants and animals could disappear, while others will grow and thrive. Polar bears and other animals that depend on sea ice to breed and forage are at risk, scientists say. There are fears that polar bears and some seal species could face extinction in just decades because of global warming. The thinning of the sea ice presents a danger to both humans and polar bears, said Peter Ewins, director of Arctic conservations for the World Wildlife Fund Canada. "The polar bears need to be there to catch enough seals to see them through the summer in open warm water systems. Equally, the Inuit need to be out there on the ice catching seals and are less and less able to do that because the ice is more unstable, thinner," he said. When NASA started taking satellite images of the Arctic region in the late 1970s and computer technology improved, scientists noted alarming patterns and theorized they were caused by the emission of so-called greenhouse gases, emitted by industries and internal combustion engines, that create a heat-trapping layer in the atmosphere. Inuit leaders, like Sheila Watt-Cloutier whose efforts won her the 2005 Sophie environment prize in Norway earlier this year, are trying to draw attention to the impact of climate change and pollution on the traditional lifestyles of the Arctic's indigenous people. "When I was a child, the weather used to be more stable, it worries me to see and hear all this," Greenland Premier Hans Enoksen said on the sidelines of an environmental officials' meeting in Ilulissat last month. The meeting ended with statements of concern, sincere calls for measure to address the problem -- and no action. The Kyoto Protocol that took effect in February aims to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. But the 140 nations that have signed the pact don't include the United States, which itself is one of teh biggest producers -- one-quarter -- of the gases. U.S. President George W. Bush's administration claims that participa- ting in the pact would severely damage the U.S. economy. Many scientists say that position undermines the whole planet and they point to Greenland as the leading edge of what the globe could suffer. Some have suggested perhaps the U.S. economy needs to be changed. "Greenland is the canary in a mine shaft alerting us," said Corell, the American meteorologist. "In the U.S., global warming is a tomorrow issue. ... For us working here, it hits you like a ton of bricks when you see it." AP writers Maria Danilova and Jim Heintz in Moscow, Karl Ritter in Stockholm, Sweden, and Beth Duff-Brown in Toronto contributed to this report. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. More news from AP online at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/newstoday.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:46:58 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Online Usage Plummets in Battered Gulf By BRUCE MEYERSON AP Business Writer The statistics make it look as if someone just flicked a switch and turned off the Internet, and that's not too far from the hurricane truth. In the battered Biloxi-Gulfport region of Mississippi, where about 160,000 people might go online during a typical weeknight, Internet usage had fallen "below reportable levels" by Tuesday, according to the tracking firm comScore Networks. The number of people logging on in New Orleans, usually 700,000 on an average weeknight, plunged 90 percent after Hurricane Katrina sent most of those Internet users fleeing and knocked out most of the telephone and electrical lines needed to connect any computer not submerged in the floods. On a more heartening note, comScore also reported Friday that online traffic to the RedCross.org is soaring: On Wednesday, nearly 1 million people visited the Web site, more than 32 times the average daily visit during the prior week. The hurricane's impact was also evident on the nation's long-distance phone networks, where the number of calls has jumped this week. However, with millions of local phone lines out of service in the Gulf region, the number of long-distance calls that aren't reaching their destination has surged as well. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=51562492 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:46:58 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Phones, Computers Coming to Astrodome By MATT SLAGLE AP Technology Writer Thousands of Hurricane Katrina refugees packing into Houston's Astrodome are getting electronic access to the outside world. Corporations, volunteers and nonprofit agencies continued working Friday to install telephones and Internet-enabled computers inside the sprawling former sports stadium in one of many efforts aimed at bringing communications technologies to hurricane victims. Astrodome refugees, displaced from the Superdome in New Orleans, were getting 10 minute blocks of time to make free local and long distance calls. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=51563478 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: See Mr. Slagle's entire report in the TELECOM Digest V24_#400 from Friday, September 2. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Isaiah Beard <sacredpoet@sacredpoet.com> Subject: Re: RIP, Sussex Cellular Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:14:42 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Joseph wrote: > If you go to http://www.wirelessadvisor.com and put in the ZIP code > for rural locations such as in Maine or New Hampshire you'll see 800 > AMPS only providers listed. Curiously for many locations you'll also > see the company Nextwave at 1900 Mhz listed as well even though they > have no service! Of course ... Nextwave is the company that bid billions for PCS licenses, paid the FCC only a few million and then declared bankruptcy and held on for dear life to their PCS licenses, even though they never lit up a single tower. A portion of those PCS licenses were ultimately sold to Verizon Wireless (the deal closed early this year, earning Nextwave $3 billion). But what's left of Nextwave still owns spectrum, even though they're not doing anything with it and haven't for years. E-mail fudged to thwart spammers. Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply. ------------------------------ From: Isaiah Beard <sacredpoet@sacredpoet.com> Subject: Re: Is Verizon Wireless Sabotaging Older Cell Phones? Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:21:59 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com William Warren wrote: > So, the questions: > 1. 95% or 85%? 95% > 2. Is December 2005 still the deadline? Yes it is. > 3. What happens to those of us on Verizon's network without > GPS-enabled phones (such as, apparently, the Motorola 120C). Who knows? It would appear that Verizon is telling the FCC there's nothing they can do to force someone who doesn't want to swap their phone to do so. No telling if they'll be granted a waiver, or if they'll be required to force upgrades. E-mail fudged to thwart spammers. Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Dear comp.dcom.telecom Readers From: Kevin Buhr <buhr+un@asaurus.net> Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 02:38:53 GMT Bruce L. Bergman <blbergman@notchur@biz> writes: > Oh, and it might be a "Joe Job" smear attempt instead, considering the > post has the (alleged) full name and address at the bottom. It *is* a Joe Job, and a ludicrously obvious one at that. Tom St.Denis is a frequent and valuable (if occasionally rather brusk) contributor to sci.crypt, and some nimrod he annoyed is obviously trying to cause major trouble for him. > I will complain to his hosting company and to Google (his GMail return > address) but it is much more effective if lots of people do it. Please don't. The message wasn't written by Tom, and it didn't originate from Google. Kevin <buhr+un@asaurus.net> ------------------------------ From: Dave Close <dave@compata.com> Subject: Re: Is Malware Hiding in Your Windows Registry? Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 04:32:30 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Compata, Costa Mesa, California Elizabeth Montalbano <idg@telecom-digest.org> writes: > Security experts have found a vulnerability in the Windows operating > system that could allow malware to lurk undetected in long string > names of the Windows Registry. The answer to the question is, yes, of course, there is malware in your Windows registry. But it isn't hiding; it's name is "registry". The registry /design/ is one of the main reasons Windows is vulnerable to so many attacks. Dave Close, Compata, Costa Mesa CA "Greed is to the moralists of the dave@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359 left what sex is to the moralists dhclose@alumni.caltech.edu of the right." - Cathy Young Dave Close, Compata, Costa Mesa CA "Politics is the business of getting dave@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359 power and privilege without dhclose@alumni.caltech.edu possessing merit." - P. J. O'Rourke ------------------------------ From: Steven Lichter <shlichter@diespammers.com> Reply-To: Die@spammers.com Organization: I Kill Spammers, Inc. (c) 2005 A Rot in Hell Co. Subject: Last Laugh! I Called You Last Week Mortgage SCAM!!! Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:52:08 GMT This one has a toll free number to opt out. Give them a call to get you and all your net buddies off of their list and make some money for the pay phone operators. Liquid Marketing Inc 101 Plaza Real South Suite 208 Boca Raton, FL 33432 (866) 872-6022 Of course their address is a MB+ The only good spammer is a dead one!! Have you hunted one down today? (c) 2005 I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot in Hell Co. ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm- unications 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. You may reprint articles in some other media on an occasional basis, but please attribute my work and that of the original author. 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