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Message Digest
Volume 28 : Issue 273 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Blue Cross physicians warned of data breach / Stolen laptop
Re: Verizon strips murals from N.E.T. HQ at 185 Franklin
Re: Verizon strips murals from N.E.T. HQ at 185 Franklin
Re: What if People Don't Take the Bait to Go Paperless?
Re: Western Union's satellite loss
Sint Maarten to join NANP with area code 721 next May
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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:02:09 EDT
From: Wesrock@aol.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Blue Cross physicians warned of data breach / Stolen laptop
Message-ID: <c64.554afc49.37fa12f1@aol.com>
In a message dated 10/3/2009 10:16:45 PM Central Daylight Time,
Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com) writes:
> Blue Cross physicians warned of data breach
> Stolen laptop had doctors' tax IDs
>
> By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff | October 3, 2009
> The Boston Globe
I don't see anything in the story that mentions doctors' tax IDs being
stolen. Most doctors are incorporated or part of an orgainzation that
is, so the tax ID is not a personal defining number.
Many businesses print their tax ID numbers on their bills, requests
for proposals, and other documents. My cellular bill shows the tax ID
number for AT&T Mobility, so it's not usually a big secret.
I just looked at the doccument my doctor gave me for my last visit
where he checks off the services he performed and which is also the
form for the Medicare billing and it has the name of his LLC shown
prominently and just under their name is printed their tax ID number.
Wes Leatherock
wesrock@aol.com
wleathus@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:04:42 EDT
From: Wesrock@aol.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Verizon strips murals from N.E.T. HQ at 185 Franklin
Message-ID: <c7e.3aeb594d.37fa138a@aol.com>
In a message dated 10/3/2009 10:33:23 PM Central Daylight Time,
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:
> A number of telephone buildings are no longer used due to the
> miniaturization of equipment and centralization of office functions.
> Some old switching buildings were quite handsome, some newer office
> buildings had noted architecture.
But they remain on the ad valorem tax rolls in some way, until the
telcos can get rid of them in some way. Same way with outside
plant--every pole, for example, is taxed in the jurisdicion in which
it is located, which required massive inventory records to identify
every pole and the various tax jurisdictions in which it's located.
Regulatory commissions may disallow unused plant for rate-making
purposes, but the taxing authorities still tax them.
Wes Leatherock
wesrock@aol.com
wleathus@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:58:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Verizon strips murals from N.E.T. HQ at 185 Franklin
Message-ID: <aef11132-a6b3-42a8-bc55-5f5af68b6972@r31g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 4, 12:23 pm, Wesr...@aol.com wrote:
> Regulatory commissions may disallow unused plant for rate-making
> purposes, but the taxing authorities still tax them.
Sometimes when an industrial building is out of use and sealed up, the
property taxes are reduced on it. At a local steel mill certain
unused buildings had tax reductions.
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 17:10:20 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: What if People Don't Take the Bait to Go Paperless?
Message-ID: <haaktr$1d5$1@news.albasani.net>
Dan Lanciani <ddl@danlan.com> wrote:
>On a vaguely related note, I was a bit confused by a recent notice
>from Wamu aka Chase bank. It said that they would be sending me
>check images (unless as they prefer they could send me nothing)
>which are apparently not Check21 legal substitute checks. It
>went on to say that I agree that these images will be sufficient to
>determine whether the checks are legitimate. Now of course they
>will be sufficient for me to determine if they are legitimate
>since I will know whether I wrote the check in the first place.
>But I don't think that is what they mean. This seems to be an
>end-run around Check21's requirements (which were already very
>generous to the banks).
I became a WaMu customer in the first place because they were the only
bank still willing to enclose checks in the statement without charge.
On many, but not all, check writing accounts, Chase still offers the
option of check enclosure, although there may be fees, which may be
waived based on a combination of balances, or if you have your mortgage
with them or one of their credit cards.
Make a fuss about it. The best way to preserve one's legal rights is to
have the cancelled check enclosed in the statement.
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 12:05:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Western Union's satellite loss
Message-ID: <b0b4d5ca-298c-4274-b1bb-5be6fedb3108@v20g2000vbs.googlegroups.com>
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> I'm curious which location(s) still had Morse circuits in operation in
> 1965: I'm a member of the Morse Telegraph Club, and the history of
> Morse always interests me.
In the WU newsletters they mentioned lines out in the west in service
circa 1960. (I thought I submitted that as a post here).
The 1965 reference was a side mention of operator's duties in NYC.
That is, apparently in the main buliding in New York they still had a
Morse station in 1965. I don't know what it connected to. I got the
impression from context that it was not frequently used.
In its heydey, Western Union switched trunk circuits around to
accomodate traffic flow. For example, a political convention or
presidential visit required extra circuits for media staff to use. I
suspect the 1965 Morse circuit was an older backup circuit. The 1960
circuits out west appeared to regular trunks.
As Mr. Haynes mentions, perhaps this line served railroad needs.
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 16:21:23 -0400
From: "Bob Goudreau" <BobGoudreau@nc.rr.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Sint Maarten to join NANP with area code 721 next May
Message-ID: <90FC69315CE842508992289DE198FD3A@estore.us.dg.com>
NANPA's latest planning letter (http://www.nanpa.com/pdf/PL_396.pdf)
announces the assignment of NPA 721 to Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles.
Permissive dialing begins next May 31, after which time numbers in SM can be
dialed either as +599 54N-XXXX or as +1 721 54N-XXXX until November 30,
2010. At that point, +1 721 dialing becomes mandatory.
The letter notes that the dialing plan in Sint Maarten will have four
categories:
1) Local: 7D
2) Toll to rest of NANP: 1+10D
3) Operator-assisted: 0+10D
4) International Local: 7D
That final category is interesting -- calls to the French half of the island
(Saint-Martin) can continue to be dialed as local calls, even though
Saint-Martin is not part of the NANP and continues to use its own +590
country code! I don't know of any other part of the NANP that offers this
kind of shortcut dialing to any non-NANP location, much less rating it as a
local call. Decades ago, parts of Mexico used to be dialable from the US
using two pseudo-NPA hacks (706 and 903, IIRC), but those were phased out
and eventually assigned as regular area codes long ago, and all calls to
Mexico thenceforth required standard +52 dialing. Does anybody know of any
similar shortcuts in existence today? Are there any from the NANP half of
the island of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic) to the non-NANP half (+509
Haiti)?
There are no details on how Saint-Martin numbers will be mapped into 7
digits for callers from the Dutch half of the island. Saint-Martin numbers
appear to be of the form +590 590-XXXXXX, +590 690-XXXXXX or +590
876-XXXXXX. Clearly, some scheme will have to transform those 9-digit local
numbers into 7-digit numbers for purposes of dialing them locally from Sint
Maarten. Does anyone have any further information on how that will work?
Bob Goudreau
Cary, NC
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