TELECOM Digest     Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:11:00 EST    Volume 24 : Issue 525

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Online Daters Sue Matchmaking Sites For Fraud (Martha Graybow)
    Google Now Permits Web Sites to Sign up Advertisers Directly (E. Auchard)
    Microsoft Employee Sentenced to Prison For Theft (Elizabeth Gillespie)
    Technology Summit Wraps up in Tunisia (Matt Moore)
    Apple iTunes Security Flaw Discovered (Monty Solomon)
    Lingo Phone Can't Port Number (Rik)
    Re: Replacement for Siemens Gigaset (DevilsPGD)
    Re: Replacement for Siemens Gigaset (Thor Lancelot Simon)
    Re: Verizon and Caller ID (Steven Lichter)
    Re: A Question Please About my Purchase (John Levine)

Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the
Internet.  All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and
the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other
journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are
included in the fair use quote.  By using -any name or email address-
included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article
herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the
email.

               ===========================

Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be
sold or given away without explicit written consent.  Chain letters,
viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome.

We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we
are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because
we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands
against crime.   Geoffrey Welsh

               ===========================

See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details
and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest.  

----------------------------------------------------------------------

From: Martha Graybow <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Online Daters Sue Matchmaking Sites For Fraud
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:51:12 -0600


By Martha Graybow

It's not easy finding love in cyberspace, and now some frustrated
online daters say they were victims of fraud by two top Internet
matchmaking services and have taken their complaints to court.

Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp., is accused in a federal
lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through
bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees. In some
instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on
sham dates with subscribers as a marketing ploy.

"This is a grossly fraudulent practice that Match.com is engaged in,"
said H. Scott Leviant, a lawyer at Los Angeles law firm Arias, Ozzello
& Gignac LLP, which brought the suit.

Match "promotes the policies of integrity to protect members, and yet
they themselves, we allege, are misleading their entire customer
base," he said.

The company said it does not comment on pending litigation. But Match
spokeswoman Kristin Kelly said the company "absolutely does not"
employ people to go on dates with subscribers or to send members
misleading e-mails professing romantic interest. The company has about
15 million members worldwide and 250 employees, she said.

In a separate suit, Yahoo Inc.'s personals service is accused of
posting profiles of fictitious potential dating partners on its Web
site to make it look as though many more singles subscribe to the
service than actually do.

Yahoo spokeswoman Rochelle Adams said the company had no comment on
the lawsuit.

The suits, which both seek class-action status, came as growth in the
online dating industry has slowed, although Web matchmaking still
remains a big business.

U.S. consumers spent $245.2 million on online personals and dating
services in the first half of 2005, up 7.6 percent from a year
earlier, according to the Online Publishers Association. That's a
slower growth rate compared with several years ago.

At the same time, competition among online dating services is fierce,
with some sites offering newfangled features such as extensive
compatibility surveys to match up people with similar temperaments and
outlooks.

ALLEGATIONS OF 'DATE BAIT'

The Match lawsuit was filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court
in Los Angeles by plaintiff Matthew Evans, who contends he went out
with a woman he met through the site who turned out to be nothing more
than "date bait" working for the company.

The relationship went nowhere, according to his suit. Evans says Match
set up the date for him because it wanted to keep him from pulling the
plug on his subscription and was hoping he'd tell other potential
members about the attractive woman he met through the service,
according to Leviant.

His lawyers said Evans, of Orange County, California, was not
available to comment, but described him as a working professional in
his 30s.

Leviant said his client found out about the alleged scam after the
woman he dated confessed she was employed by Match. The lawsuit also
claims the company violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organization Act, a law best known for being used in prosecuting
organized crime.

The Yahoo suit was filed last month by Robert Anthony, of Broward
County, Florida. The suit, brought in U.S. District Court in San Jose,
California, accuses the company of breach of contract, fraud and
unfair trade practices.

Anthony's lawyer, Peter McNulty of the McNulty Law Firm in Bel Air,
California, did not respond to requests for comment.

Another complaint against Yahoo -- although not yet formalized
in a lawsuit contends that some men pose as females on the Yahoo
Romance and Personals site and attempt to lure other males to meet
them resulting in attempts to molest the 'innocent' teenage males.

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.

For a humorous look at this problem, please go to:
http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/honesty.html for two cartoons which
illustrate the problems with 'internet chat'.

------------------------------

From: Eric Auchard <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Google Now Permits web Sites to Sign up Advertisers Directly
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:52:20 -0600


Google lets Web sites sign up advertisers directly
By Eric AuchardFri Nov 18, 5:29 PM ET

Advertisers wishing to place ads on Google-supported Web sites can sign up
directly on those sites, the Web search leader said on Friday, in a move
analysts said addresses concerns about its growing advertising clout.

The company said the new feature, known as Onsite Advertiser Sign-up, will
help Web site publishers connect with a wider range of small advertisers
when using Google's behind- the-scenes ad management system.

Previously, advertisers seeking to market on Web sites using Google's
syndicated AdSense advertising system had to enroll through Google's AdWords
program and list sites where they wished their ads to be featured.

The instant sign-up feature ties site owners and advertisers by giving Web
publishers more direct control over how advertisers select ads on particular
sites. In turn, site owners and Google each receive a cut of resulting ad
sales.

Gary Stein, an analyst with Jupiter Research in San Francisco, said Google
has faced mounting competition as it seeks to attract and keep thousands of
publishers in its AdSense advertising syndication program.

"It is a message to publishers that you can still own and manage your own
advertising relationships," Stein said. "They don't have to all be mediated
by Google."

Rivals Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), Kanoodle and others appeal to
Google's Web site publishers by questioning how much control they want to
cede to Google to manage the publishers ties to its own advertisers. Web
site publishers often use a variety of different ad networks on different
portions of their sites and decide which one to use based on customer
returns, Stein said.

AdSense, which allows Web site publishers to run keyword text or image
ads through a system managed by Google, has become a phenomenally
popular way for sites to generate revenue from each ad clicked on by
site visitors.

Google receives 99 percent of its revenue from advertising sales. A
little less than half of the Mountain View, California-based company's
revenue comes from Google-run advertising on other companies' Web
sites.

The new feature is designed to allow Web sites to sign up smaller
advertisers while leaving the headaches of managing the production and
billing process to Google's automated software.

But how Google manages its ad system remains something of a mystery to
its customers, Stein said.

While Yahoo and Kanoodle have sought to make their ad systems more
transparent to publishers, Google keeps key details of how its system
runs secret from customers and asks them to trust that it markets ads
in an even-handed fashion.

Advertisers wishing to advertise directly on a Web sites using the
syndicated Google advertising program can click on an "Advertise on
This Site" link that takes them to a Google page where they can create
an AdWords ad for the specific Web site.

Ads created through Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up will compete in the same
auction as all other Google ads. The new feature is an extension of
Google's site-targeted advertising, which was launched earlier this
year.

More information on the onsite advertising program will be available at
http://www.google.com/services/oasu/.

Google shares, which topped $400 for the first time on Thursday, dipped
$3.24, or 0.8 percent to close at $400.21 in Friday trading on Nasdaq.


Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

------------------------------

From: Elizabeth M. Gillespie <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Microsoft Employee Sentenced to Prison in Software Theft
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:53:29 -0600


By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE, Associated Press Writer

A federal judge sentenced a former Microsoft Corp. employee on Friday
to four years in prison for illegally selling millions of dollars of
company software.

Finn W. Contini, 37, of Redmond, pleaded guilty in January to one
count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and four counts of money
laundering.

He admitted ordering 2,700 pieces of software worth about $7 million
through Microsoft's internal ordering program, which he then sold for
a personal profit of $2.3 million.

Prosecutors argued that Contini recruited others to take part in the
scheme, referring to it as 'theft ring' and calling him the ringleader.

"We dispute the characterization he was a ringleader in any way,"
Contini's attorney, Ralph Hurvitz, said Friday.

Three other employees were sentenced earlier this year. Robert
Howdeshell, 40 of Puyallup, was sentenced to two years and three
months in prison.  Alyson Clark, 38, of Normandy Park, and Christine
Hendrickson, 34, of Bothell, each got five months in prison and five
months of home confinement.

According to prosecutors, they used an Internet-based system that
allows Microsoft employees to order software for business purposes at
no personal cost. They then manipulated the system to prevent e-mail
notices of their orders from being sent to their supervisors or
managers. Microsoft said it made changes to make the system more
secure in mid-2002.

As part of a plea agreement reached earlier this year, Contini agreed
to forfeit more than $1.7 million in assets he acquired with money
from the sales scheme, including four properties in Washington and
Oregon, a 2003 Toyota Highlander, a 2002 Honda Civic, silver and gold
coins, and more than $188,000 in bank accounts and currency.

Contini worked at Microsoft from September 1999 until he resigned in
February 2002.

In addition to prison time, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour
ordered Contini serve three years of supervised release and pay $7.1
million in restitution.

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.

For more news headlines and stories, go to:
http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/AP.html

------------------------------

From: Matt Moore <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Technology Summit Wraps up in Tunisia
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:55:18 -0600


By MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writer

A crucial summit on expanding Internet access around the world ended
Friday with a firm promise to narrow the digital divide -- but little
in government funding to make it happen.

The World Summit on the Information Society originally was conceived
to raise consciousness about the divide between the haves and
have-nots, and to raise money for projects to link up the global
village, particularly Africa and Asia and South America.

But instead, it was overshadowed by a lingering resentment about who
should oversee the domain names and technical issues that allow people
from Pakistan to Peru surf Web sites for information, news and
consumer goods.

Negotiators from more than 100 countries had agreed -- some rather
resentfully -- on the eve of the meeting to leave the United States in
charge of the Internet's addressing system, averting a U.S.-EU
showdown at this week's U.N. technology summit.  But resentment over
perceived U.S.  control persisted, and participants left with few
concrete pledges of financial help.

"ICANN has promised and promised and promised, and it's not the first time
that they have promised this," said Diallo Mohamadou, a telecommunications
consultant from Senegal. "In 2000, they promised to connect all the small
villages far away from the big cities in Africa to the Internet. Five years
later and nothing has happened. ICANN and the United States Department
of Commerce have deceived us repeatedly. "

Participants said more than 200 new initiatives were unveiled at the summit,
but no exact dollar amount, said T. Kelly, head of the strategy and policy
unit for the Geneva-based ITU.

"We currently have over 200 entries in the golden book and many of
them are multimillion dollar," he told reporters.

Some of the initiatives announced at the summit include programs to
set up centers to teach information technology with the idea of having
them, in turn, teach it to more students, in a bid increase countries'
homegrown talent; a low-cost mobile phone to expand the number of cell
phone users worldwide; and a US$100 (euro85) laptop announced by John
Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab, which aims to ship 1 million units by
the end of next year and sold to governments at cost for distribution
to school children and teachers.

Richard D. McCormick, former chairman of the International Chamber of
Commerce, said private industry must work in concert with governments
to narrow the divide, adding: "Now the real work begins."

"Now it's up to governments, business, interest groups and the
scientific and technical communities to take this freedom and
opportunity to improve the lives of every person on this planet," he
said. "If we can do that, there will be no losers - everybody wins."

Yoshio Utsumi, secretary-general of the International  Telecommunication
Union, which helped oversee the summit, urged participants to follow
through on agreements made this week.

"It is not the end, just the beginning, but the homework is enormous,"
Utsumi said. "The summit itself ended, but many, many meetings, action
and partnership programs must start."

Despite the pledges to expand access and lower costs, some warned that it
would take not just commitments of money, but time and resources.

"People can see the light at the end of the tunnel but they have to
find the ways to keep going," said Marshall Smith, program director
for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which makes educational
materials for students and teachers in Africa and elsewhere available
free of charge.

Another thread of concern was keeping the Internet a forum for free
speech and dissent.

"It is vital that the Internet remain a neutral medium open to all in
order to realize that access for our citizens," John Marburger,
director of the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in
a not-so-subtle swipe at Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Tunisia's selection as the host of the summit has raised eyebrows. On
Thursday, the head of Reporters Without Borders was ordered out of the
country after arriving at the airport, largely at the behest of the
United States. Earlier this week, human rights groups said "Tunisian
and foreign reporters had been harassed and beaten. The United States,
which seems for all intents and purposes to 'run the internet' has
largely turned a blind eye, acting like it did not happen."

"It is the role of governments to ensure that this freedom of
expression is available to its citizens and not to stand in the way of
people seeking to send and receive information across the Internet,"
Marburger said.

On the Net:
http://www.itu.int/wsis/

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.

For more news headlines from Associated Press please go to:
http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/newstoday.html

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:33:32 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Apple iTunes Security Flaw Discovered


By Dawn Kawamoto
Story last modified Fri Nov 18 07:10:00 PST 2005

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details.

A critical vulnerability, found in some versions of Apple Computer's
popular iTunes, could enable attackers to remotely take over a user's
computer, according to a warning issued Thursday by a security
research firm.

The discovery of this flaw comes days after Apple issued its security
update for iTunes 6 for Windows.

This flaw existed on the earlier version of iTunes 6 for Windows and
was not addressed by the newest security update, according to a
warning issued by eEye Digital Security.

After eEye mistakenly posted a note on its Web site saying the iTunes
flaw affected "all operating systems," the security firm updated its
warning to indicate that the flaw had been found only on the Windows
operating system so far.

However, eEye is now testing whether the flaw also affects iTunes 
running on Mac operating systems.

Apple iTunes 6 for Windows, as well as the previous version, are
affected by the flaw, said Steve Manzuik, product manager at eEye.

The flaw enables malicious hackers to launch arbitrary code remotely,
once a user clicks on a malicious Web site link or opens a malicious
e-mail, Manzuik said.

http://news.com.com/2100-1002-5960413.html

------------------------------

From: Rik <hrasmussen@nc.rr.com>
Subject: Lingo Phone Can't Port Number
Date: 18 Nov 2005 16:27:01 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


My neighbor and I had POTS from Sprint. He signed up with Vonage and
they transfered his number from Sprint to Vonage, no problem.

I signed up with Lingo, and after collecting my money and sending me
the hardware, they say my number can not be transfered.

They never answered emails I sent.

Rik

------------------------------

From: DevilsPGD <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net>
Subject: Re: Replacement for Siemens Gigaset
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:36:44 -0700
Organization: Disorganized


In message <telecom24.524.12@telecom-digest.org>
bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) wrote:

> In article <telecom24.519.13@telecom-digest.org>,
> DevilsPGD  <spamsucks@crazyhat.net> wrote:

>> In message <telecom24.518.13@telecom-digest.org>
>> bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) wrote:

>>> In article <telecom24.517.15@telecom-digest.org>,
>>> CharlesH  <hoch@exemplary.invalid> wrote:

>>>> Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

>>>>> I would stay away from the 900Mhz phones for a few reasons.  First,
>>>>> the only multi-line phones available in 900Mhz are notoriously
>>>>> unreliable.  Second, eavesdropping on many 900Mhz phones, even modern
>>>>> ones, is trivial.

>>>> How does one eavesdrop on a Digital Spread Spectrum (DSS) 900MHz
>>>> cordless phone? I would have thought that with the spreading code
>>>> being changed every time the phone is put into the base, they would be
>>>> essentially uncrackable, like CDMA cell phones.

>>> The phone and the base station have to negotiate the spreading code
>>> used for each session.  If you can eavesdrop on that negotiation, you
>>> _can_ predict the frequency hops, rendering it 'trivial' to track as a
>>> third-party listener.

>> Sure, except that the negotiation is typically performed by the base
>> and handset via a wired connection OR at extremely low power (since it
>> only happens when they're physically connected)

> What happens if you turn the handset off, then back on, when it is
> _out_ of the base?

Typically they don't work at all until you put them back in the base.

------------------------------

From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Subject: Re: Replacement for Siemens Gigaset
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:55:09 UTC
Organization: Public Access Networks Corp.
Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com


In article <telecom24.524.12@telecom-digest.org>, Robert Bonomi
<bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com> wrote:

> In article <telecom24.519.13@telecom-digest.org>,
> DevilsPGD  <spamsucks@crazyhat.net> wrote:

>>> The phone and the base station have to negotiate the spreading code
>>> used for each session.  If you can eavesdrop on that negotiation, you
>>> _can_ predict the frequency hops, rendering it 'trivial' to track as a
>>> third-party listener.

>> Sure, except that the negotiation is typically performed by the base
>> and handset via a wired connection OR at extremely low power (since it
>> only happens when they're physically connected)

> What happens if you turn the handset off, then back on, when it is
> _out_ of the base?

The claim about "negotiating the spreading code only when they're
physically connected" is plainly false: if it were true, the
multi-handset phones now so popular simply wouldn't work.  After all,
each handset has its own charging stand; only one of these is the
"base".

Thor Lancelot Simon	                             tls@rek.tjls.com

"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is
 to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem."  - Noam Chomsky

------------------------------

From: Steven Lichter <shlichter@diespammers.com>
Reply-To: Die@spammers.com
Organization: I Kill Spammers, Inc.  (c) 2005 A Rot in Hell Co.
Subject: Re: Verizon and Caller ID
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:42:34 GMT


Michael Quinn Michael wrote:

> Verizon called my house several times today concerning a fiber
> installation scheduled for tomorrow.  Interestingly enough, the numbers
> from which they called:

> (757) 896-6330,  and
> (888) 223-2355

> delivered the numbers but not the caller name (they each showed as
> "out of area") to my caller ID boxes and phones. This from a company
> that I pay for caller ID service. When I or my wife call from our
> office or cell phones, name is always delivered.  Strikes me as
> curious at best, and hypocritical at less than best; Verizon can't
> deliver caller name??.  Anyone with similar experiences?  No one at
> (so-called) "Customer Service" was able to explain why.  One
> trying-to-be-helpful supervisor suggested the phenomenon would go away
> when my fiber service was activated. Jeez.   

> Regards,  

> Mike

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It _probably_ has to do with the type
> of switch or PBX that Verizon is using in that office. Telco also uses
> switching gear in their own business office for their own incoming and
> outgoing calls, in addition to the central office stuff everyone else
> (including Verizon) uses. Some phone setups (like Direct Inward
> Dialing for example and some flavors of Centrex) do not do very well 
> on delivering caller ID period, let alone name with the ID. If every 
> single employee of Verizon had a phone connected direct to the central
> office (with no in-between switches or systems) then chances are
> likely your caller ID box would deliver the number and the _name_ of
> the person or the department, etc. But every single employee/department
> of telco does not have that individual line -- well they do, but they
> are routed through concentrators, switches,  etc.

> Its those inbetween devices or switches or PBXs, etc which are either
> misprogrammed (or most likely not capable of correctly rendering the
> _name ID_) that are guilty. Since you are purchasing caller/name ID
> service, whenever the central office is unable to deliver same, the
> 'default' is to tell you it is 'out of area' or 'unavailable' or
> whatever.

> I'll now tell you (and other interested readers) a story about me in
> Chicago calling '611' one day: I have forgotten what the problem was
> but I called '611' to report it. Thirty minutes or an hour later I got
> a call back from some repair tech to say the problem was cured. The
> tech's call came in per _my_ caller ID from 312-525-something, but I
> was out and missed the call. I returned as the phone quit ringing and
> went to check my caller ID box. I noted the number, and returned the 
> call only to be greeted by a voice saying 'Ameritech Repair Service,
> how may I help you?  When I gave my name and number, the tech knew
> what it was about and told me what corrections had been made. So far,
> so good. Then about 10-15 minutes later, I received a very angry call
> from a _supervisor_ in repair who bawled me out good for 'calling in
> on our direct line rather than dialing 611'. She told me I was  'never
> again to call in to a given tech person on their direct line, I was 
> only to use the main number of '611'.  I told her all I had  done was 
> returned a call showing on my caller ID. "oh ... well ... I will have
> to think about that ..." was her reply. Later, she called back to 
> apologize for her angry call, saying she was unaware that caller ID
> boxes were giving out the 'direct numbers' of their employees, rather 
> than the general incoming number of '611'.  So many people at telco
> do not know, nor have any real reason to know, how _their own_ phone
> system works, nor anything much about the company they work for other
> than their own job function. I reported this in this Digest at the
> time it happened (early 1990's) and remember someone responding by
> saying "Bell got hoisted on their own petard".  PAT]

They are behind a large PBX which may not be passing the data to the SS7 
switching equipment.

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.

------------------------------

Date: 19 Nov 2005 02:06:24 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Subject: Re: A Question Please About my Purchase
Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA


> it in the other phone. Now, if I can figure out how to open this
> new phone I have now (Nokia 6010) *get the SIM out*,

The instructions are on page 11 of the manual that should have come
with your phone.  You push the cover release button on the back of the
phone, slide the cover up to remove it, lift the battery out to
uncover the SIM, then press the tab above the SIM to release it and
slide the SIM up and out.  Really, it takes about 10 seconds.

> open the new phone (Nokia 6340i when it gets here) and put the SIM
> in the new phone

Slide the back cover down and off, then lift the battery from the top
to remove it.  The SIM holder is below (not beneath the battery.)
Slide the SIM into it with the gold contacts face down and the cut corner
at the upper right until it clicks, then put the battery back in and
slide the cover back on.   Takes another 10 seconds.

> I guess I should have it made. No need to say a word to Cingular
> Wireless either way, _is that correct_?

That is correct.  They do not care what phone you use with your SIM.

R's,

John

------------------------------


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.

Contact information:    Patrick Townson/TELECOM Digest
                        Post Office Box 50
                        Independence, KS 67301
                        Phone: 620-402-0134
                        Fax 1: 775-255-9970
                        Fax 2: 530-309-7234
                        Fax 3: 208-692-5145         
                        Email: editor@telecom-digest.org

Subscribe:  telecom-subscribe@telecom-digest.org
Unsubscribe:telecom-unsubscribe@telecom-digest.org

This Digest is the oldest continuing e-journal about telecomm-
unications on the Internet, having been founded in August, 1981 and
published continuously since then.  Our archives are available for
your review/research. We believe we are the oldest e-zine/mailing list
on the internet in any category!

URL information:        http://telecom-digest.org

Anonymous FTP: mirror.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/
  (or use our mirror site: ftp.epix.net/pub/telecom-archives)

RSS Syndication of TELECOM Digest: http://telecom-digest.org/rss.html
  For syndication examples see http://www.feedrollpro.com/syndicate.php?id=308
    and also http://feeds.feedburner.com/TelecomDigest

*************************************************************************
*   TELECOM Digest is partially funded by a grant from                  *
*   Judith Oppenheimer, President of ICB Inc. and purveyor of accurate  *
*   800 & Dot Com News, Intelligence, Analysis, and Consulting.         *
*   http://ICBTollFree.com, http://1800TheExpert.com                    *
*   Views expressed herein should not be construed as representing      *
*   views of Judith Oppenheimer or ICB Inc.                             *
*************************************************************************

ICB Toll Free News.  Contact information is not sold, rented or leased.

One click a day feeds a person a meal.  Go to http://www.thehungersite.com

Copyright 2004 ICB, Inc. and TELECOM Digest. All rights reserved.
Our attorney is Bill Levant, of Blue Bell, PA.

              ************************

DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE JUST 65 CENTS ONE OR TWO INQUIRIES CHARGED TO
YOUR CREDIT CARD!  REAL TIME, UP TO DATE! SPONSORED BY TELECOM DIGEST
AND EASY411.COM   SIGN UP AT http://www.easy411.com/telecomdigest !

              ************************

Visit http://www.mstm.okstate.edu and take the next step in your
career with a Master of Science in Telecommunications Management
(MSTM) degree from Oklahoma State University (OSU). This 35
credit-hour interdisciplinary program is designed to give you the
skills necessary to manage telecommunications networks, including
data, video, and voice networks.

The MSTM degree draws on the expertise of the OSU's College
of Business Administration; the College of Arts and Sciences; and the
College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology. The program has
state-of-the-art lab facilities on the Stillwater and Tulsa campus
offering hands-on learning to enhance the program curriculum.  Classes
are available in Stillwater, Tulsa, or through distance learning.

Please contact Jay Boyington for additional information at
405-744-9000, mstm-osu@okstate.edu, or visit the MSTM web site at
http://www.mstm.okstate.edu

              ************************

   ---------------------------------------------------------------

Finally, the Digest is funded by gifts from generous readers such as
yourself who provide funding in amounts deemed appropriate. Your help
is important and appreciated. A suggested donation of fifty dollars
per year per reader is considered appropriate. See our address above.
Please make at least a single donation to cover the cost of processing
your name to the mailing list. 

All opinions expressed herein are deemed to be those of the
author. Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only
and messages should not be considered any official expression by the
organization.

End of TELECOM Digest V24 #525
******************************