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Telecom Digest       Saturday, August 12 2000       Volume 2000 : Number 018



In this issue:

    Re: Telecom Digest V2000 #15
    Re: NO long distance carrier on phone, but Hacker calls overseas on my line!
    Re: Telecom Digest V2000 #15
    Re: Telecom Digest V2000 #17
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    Net2Phone
    Re: NO long distance carrier on phone, but Hacker calls overseas on my line!
    Re: Phone Fears: Malignant or Benign?
    cmsg cancel <399404BC.CB67BB2A@dfti.com>
    Re: Telecom Digest V2000 #15
    Re: Phone Booths?
    WIPO asks for your comments on domain name revocation rules
    Phonebooths
    Re: Number portability D O E S N O T W O R K ! ! ! !
    Re: Directory Assistance Errors (Was Re: MSNBC on 411)
    Re: Phone Fears: Malignant or Benign?
    8/11/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES

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Date: 11 Aug 2000 08:11:20 -0400
From: "Ralph Sprang" <woodturn@ccnmail.com>
Subject: Re: Telecom Digest V2000 #15

"They don't" is a very strong statement for such a controversial subject area.  A number of credible studies have demonstrated increased health risk to the groups you mentioned - those who use electric equipment in close proximity to their bodies.  In particular, electric blankets increase risk because they are used for long periods and are close to the body.  The presumed cause of health effects is NOT RF radiation, however, but electromagnetic fields.  It appears that the magnetic field may be the primary culprit.  See IEEE Spectrum for a more detailed treatment of this issue.

But all of this has NOTHING to do with cell phone use - the concern there is RF fields, not EM fields.  The negative health effects of RF fields are widely known and documented - ever see a bird fly in front of a high power radar dish and get fried?  The most common example of 'damage' due to RF fields is using a microwave oven to cook food.  The controversy concerns how  much RF energy is required to cause health effects, and whether cell phones exceed that limit.

Please, everyone, check your facts before posting.  This list has always been a fairly technical list, there is a presumption of basic technical knowledge.  Please respect that.

Ralph Sprang
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>Date: 10 Aug 2000 19:52:29 -0400
>From: Jonathan Seder <JDS-nospam@syntel.com>
>Subject: Re: Phone Fears: Malignant or Benign?
>
>There was a lengthy thread on this recently.
>
>More than 1,200 studies have thus far failed to find any linkage between
>wireless phone radiation and illness.  If RF radiation was dangerous,
>then people with substantial, long-term occupational exposure (barbers
>who use electric clippers, carpenters who use circular saws, automobile
>engine assemblers who use powered wrenches) would have ill effects. 
>They don't.



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Date: 11 Aug 2000 08:12:08 -0400
From: David Lind <davidlind@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: NO long distance carrier on phone, but Hacker calls overseas on my line!

In article <20000808215248.12186.qmail@ivan.iecc.com>,
  peny_lane2@my-deja.com wrote:
> Southwestern Bell is my local phone carrier.  When I set up my service,
> I told Southwestern Bell that I did not want a long distance carrier
<snip>

Calling 1-700-555-4141 will connect with an automated system that will
identify your long distance carrier (never checked a line with no LD
carrier). Just to make sure SB didn't give you a LD. It's free as well as a
PICC freeze form the local carrier so the long distance status cannot be
changed. 900# blocking is also free.



> I opened my phone bill today and there were AT&T charges in the amount
> of $23.90 for a 3 minute call to an overseas country called Vanuatu.  I
> called AT&T to find out what Vanuatu was.  I was told that it was a
> call placed to a porn site and that it worked like a 1-900 call.  I
> informed AT&T that no such call was made by me or my husband from my
> computer or phone.  We live alone with our 3 year old grandaughter.
<snip>

Have you checked the phone wire and phone company box? Many of the network
interfaces allow a small padlock to prevent casual tampering.

I suspect other forces at work, but a few simple phone security measures
couldn't hurt morale.

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Date: 11 Aug 2000 09:34:32 -0400
From: <ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu>
Subject: Re: Telecom Digest V2000 #15

Ralph Sprang <woodturn@ccnmail.com> wrote:

> But all of this has NOTHING to do with cell phone use - the concern there is RF fields, not EM fields.  The negative health effects of RF fields are widely known and documented - ever see a bird fly in front of a high power radar dish and get fried?  The most common example of 'damage' due to RF fields is using a microwave oven to cook food.  The controversy concerns how  much RF energy is required to cause health effects, and whether cell phones exceed that limit.

First, try using a carriage return on occasion please.  The above paragraph
is one long line.  Next, RF fields *are* EM fields.  The frequency is
different from power line EM fields, but they are still EM fields.

And, microwave ovens work because they use a very specific frequency that
excites water molecules.  RF of another frequency will not necessarily 
"cook" anything, aside from vastly different field strengths compared
to cell phones.

I am willing to accept that there may be some risk factors to cell
phone use, but please don't use half-baked arguments to try to convince
people.

> Please, everyone, check your facts before posting.  This list has always been a fairly technical list, there is a presumption of basic technical knowledge.  Please respect that.

"Physician, heal thyself" comes to mind . . .

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Date: 11 Aug 2000 10:23:43 -0400
From: asde sympatico <asde@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: Telecom Digest V2000 #17

Is Net2Phone taking people for a ride?

The computer to phone rates of Net2Phone had been said to be in the
$0.01/minute range.  Since they don't mention rates after you have
registered and when they ask you to put money into the account,  I checked a
bit further on the site and found their published rates to be in the $0.10
to $0.14 per minute (depending on time of day).

This seemed high so I phoned a service rep who after many hesitations ("I
will check this out") came back with a rate of $0.01 per minute.  When I
told him that this did not match their published rates, he hesitated then
told me that indeed it was $0.10 to $0.14  and that $0.01 was "the old
rate".

You can get better rates from your phone company

BEWARE!

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>
> Telecom Digest        Friday, August 11 2000        Volume 2000 : Number
017
>
>
>
> In this issue:
>
>     Where o where have the phone booths gone long time passing
>     Re: Where have all the phone booths gone?
>     Re: Where have all the phone booths gone?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: 10 Aug 2000 23:04:20 -0400
> From: Joseph Singer <dov@oz.net>
> Subject: Where o where have the phone booths gone long time passing
>
> 10 Aug 2000 11:22:15 -0400 Roy Smith <roy@endeavor.med.nyu.edu> wrote:
>
> >The other day, I needed to make a phone call at work which required some
> >privacy.  I set off to find a phone in a phone booth where I could shut
> the door
> >and use the phone.  Could not find one.  I checked out a few locations in
> the
> >complex where I work where I seemed to remember phone booths, but they
had
> all
> >been converted to little alcoves with pay phones hung on the wall.
>
> I'd dare say that enclosed phone booths both the outside aluminum and
> safety glass and the interior ones with the wooden doors, fans,
> directories, etc. have not been around for the most part since the early
> 70s when most were replaced by "boothettes" i.e. a sometimes acoustic
> enclosure.  These were taken out of service for several reasons among
which
> are the fact that all too often these booths would be vandalized and it
was
> more trouble than it was worth to be constantly repairing these booths.
> Also in the outdoor booths they were often used as a replacement for
> "facilities" and it was not uncommon to walk in to one of these booths to
> discover that it reaked of urine.
>
> More and more the telco's attitude towards pay phones is that they are
more
> of a pain than anything else and they make it as onerous as possible to
> use.  They charge onerous rates for a local call, they charge even more
> onerous charges to make sent paid long distance, they don't provide
> directories yet expect the user to fork over 85 cents to get a directory
> call.  USWest er Qwest spent megabux on providing new Nortel Millennium
> "smart" payphones that can use "smart" cards, but they don't market them
> and if you want one of these smart debiting cards you have to order them
> specially!
>
> It's no wonder that people just aren't using payphones when you can have a
> mobile phone and don't have to surrender to the telco or COCOT owners'
> pocketbook
>
> I'm afraid real honest to goodness phone booths are a thing of the past at
> least in the US and Canada.  However, that being said when I was in the
> Netherlands in May I noticed many enclosed modern clean phone booths/call
> boxes.  I also noticed that when I was in the Netherlands a couple years
> ago all the call boxes had PTT-Telecom on them and now I notice that many
> call boxes have KPN-Telecom on them as well.  They look identical with the
> same colors the only difference that I could see is that the name etched
on
> the glass was KPN-Telecom rather than PTT-Telecom.  The instruments looked
> the same and as far as I could see dialing instructions were the same.  I
> noticed when I went to Berlin a few years ago that most of their outside
> phone booths smelled badly of urine.  Guess Deutsche Telekom doesn't have
a
> cleaning program?
>
> Joseph
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> Date: 11 Aug 2000 03:46:04 -0400
> From: Anthony Argyriou <anthony@alphageo.com>
> Subject: Re: Where have all the phone booths gone?
>
> jwm@spdcc.com (Jeffrey William McKeough) wrote:
>
> >Payphones in many places were removed (or in some cases converted to
> >rotary to discourage people from calling pagers from them) because of
> >drug dealers.  The telephone *booth* was phased out because it was
> >inaccessible to people using wheelchairs.
>
> The Willows in Concord, CA, has a British-style phone booth (near Trader
> Joe's), which I think is large enough for most wheelchairs.
>
> Anthony Argyriou
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> Date: 11 Aug 2000 05:25:26 -0400
> From: Peter Morgan <mail-bounce@filtered.clara.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Where have all the phone booths gone?
>
> In comp.dcom.telecom I saw that on 10 Aug 2000 14:58:42 -0400
> "Kluso" <kluso@isphone.net> wrote:
>
> >We've got a couple of the UK style booths in Suttons Bay, Michigan.
> >http://www.multimag.com/city/mi/suttonsbay/spring2.jpg
>
> Thanks for the photo.  Nice to see a traditional red box.  You may
> be unaware that they are not as widely distributed as they were...
> They are being replaced, unfortunately, by altogether less sound-
> proof boxes, where traffic noise enters by way of a 3" gap at the
> bottom...  which does at least mean they are easier to keep clean,
> and much less smelly !
>
> Around a dozen years ago, when I lived in Brighton on the south
> coast of the UK, the whole of the south had a major storm with
> hurricane force winds, which flattened all the trees in a number
> of areas and did significant damage to property.  I remember a
> photo showing several red phone boxes near "The Dome" (- at one
> time the stables attached to the "Royal Pavilion" but which is
> now a theatre for both stage plays and held music gigs...) and
> all the boxes were at something like 40 degrees off vertical,
> because an Oak or similar tree was pushing the first and the
> others went like dominoes.  Peter Morgan  (near Liverpool, UK)
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Date: 11 Aug 2000 11:02:44 -0400
From: "Judith Oppenheimer" <joppenheimer@icbtollfree.com>
Subject: Net2Phone

What is the URL for the published rates you saw?


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Is Net2Phone taking people for a ride?

The computer to phone rates of Net2Phone had been said to be in the
$0.01/minute range.  Since they don't mention rates after you have
registered and when they ask you to put money into the account,  I checked a
bit further on the site and found their published rates to be in the $0.10
to $0.14 per minute (depending on time of day).

This seemed high so I phoned a service rep who after many hesitations ("I
will check this out") came back with a rate of $0.01 per minute.  When I
told him that this did not match their published rates, he hesitated then
told me that indeed it was $0.10 to $0.14  and that $0.01 was "the old
rate".

You can get better rates from your phone company

BEWARE!
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Date: 11 Aug 2000 11:26:36 -0400
From: pete-weiss@psu.edu (Pete Weiss)
Subject: Re: NO long distance carrier on phone, but Hacker calls overseas on my line!

On 11 Aug 2000 08:12:08 -0400, David Lind <davidlind@my-deja.com> wrote:

|Calling 1-700-555-4141 will connect with an automated system that will
|identify your long distance carrier (never checked a line with no LD
|carrier). 

In case of WorldxChange, it connects to a "live" operator (or it did for me the
one time that I tried it).  Yes, I'm PICCed to them.

/Pete
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Date: 11 Aug 2000 11:31:40 -0400
From: jay@west.net (Jay Hennigan)
Subject: Re: Phone Fears: Malignant or Benign?

On 10 Aug 2000 09:31:26 -0400, Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote:
:>Aren't digital cell phones supposed to transmit with less power anyway?
:
:    This question demonstrates a lack of understanding about antenna
:design.  
:
:    A satellite dish is the most extreme example.  For that reason,
:it makes it the easiest to understand.  
:
:    The output of a satellite transmitter is often as low as one hundred
:milliwatts.  Even so, the power leaving the dish is in the megawatt
:range.  
:
:    Have you ever seen a flashlight bulb illuminated without being in
:the flashlight?  It's very dim.  But when you put it in the flashlight
:it becomes very bright.  
:
:    The light travels from the bulb in all directions, a ray of light
:in each different direction.  When the bulb is in the flashlight, the
:reflective dish around the bulb collects each ray, reflects it into
:the same path it reflects every other ray.  Thus the bright beam of
:light.  When you add the power from each ray of light collected, it's
:a dramatic increase (gain) in power.  

At the cost of illuminating only a small portion of the volume surrounding
the light.  A flashlight with reflector must be aimed precisely towards
the object being illuminated.  A bare bulb illuminates equally well (or 
equally poorly) in all directions.

:    A satellite dish works in the same way as a flashlight.  Thus the
:megawatt transmission (which is really needed to penetrate the atmosphere
:and arrive at the satellite in sufficient strength to have any level
:of clarity) in a straight line.  
:
:    Satellite dishes are rated for the amount of gain (power out versus
:power in) they can provide.  The numbers for them are really quite
:high.  
:
:    Other antennas are rated for gain, though it is not in the astronomical
:numbers of a satellite dish.  Nonetheless (depending upon the antenna
:design) it is possible that it could be quite high.  

But, hand-held cellular phone antennas are designed with the exact opposite
goal in mind!

Satellite dishes achieve this power gain at the cost of directionality.  
If a satellite dish is not precisely aimed at the satellite, you get no
usable signal at all.  A cellular phone is held in random positions, with
no ability whatsoever to aim the signal towards a cell site.  

Therefore, cellular phone antennas are made with very low gain, and are not
designed to focus the energy, but instead to disperse it evenly in all
directions.  Otherwise, turning one's phone away from the cell site would
drop the call, just like pointing the dish away from the satellite.

:    Assuming it is omnidirectional, each ray could penetrate your skull
:and by the time all rays have, it could theoretically be quite a bit
:(total).  

No.  Because it is omnidirectional, the energy is dispersed over 360 
degrees, and only a small portion even reaches the user's head.  The skin
andskull will reflect some energy, absorb some more, and allow a much lesser 
amount to penetrate into the brain.  About the only way to come close to
concentrating the signal within the head would be to insert the whole phone
or at least its antenna into your mouth.   

:    In my humble opinion, not enough is known and handheld cellulars
:have not been around long enough that we can draw any conclusions about
:long term health effects.  

The same could be said for ISDN wired telephones, or Pentium computers,
or P T Cruiser automobiles, or any new technology.

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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:13:04 EDT
From: Wahab Hamiani <wahab@dfti.com>
Subject: cmsg cancel <399404BC.CB67BB2A@dfti.com>

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Date: 11 Aug 2000 12:37:15 -0400
From: jay@west.net (Jay Hennigan)
Subject: Re: Telecom Digest V2000 #15

On 10 Aug 2000 22:41:51 -0400, Bill McMullin <bill@infointeractive.com> wrote:
:Anyone know where I can sources for used programmable switches?

Could you be more specific?  

Ethernet switrches?
Token-ring switches?
PBXen?
5ESSes?
BSR X-10 switches?

BTW, it isn't necessary to quote an 865-line digest to ask a one-line 
question.

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Date: 11 Aug 2000 13:52:03 -0400
From: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: Phone Booths?

In article <Pine.A41.4.20.0008101442410.37466-100000@spnode03.tcs.tulane.edu>,
Mark J Cuccia  <mcuccia@tulane.edu> wrote:

>However, there have been booths inside office buildings.

About a year ago, Yahoo! CTO David Filo gave a group of us a tour of
a Y! building (I think 3640 Central, but don't quote me on that).  One
of the important features of the cafeteria was a series of
fully-enclosed rooms on one side.  We were told those were telephone
rooms, so that Y! staffers who needed to make personal calls could do
so in an environment of relative privacy.  (Almost everyone in the
company has a cubicle, so it is next-to-impossible to make private
calls at one's desk.)

Of course, we were actually there for free pizza and a tour of the
data center.....

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Date: 11 Aug 2000 14:05:17 -0400
From: "Hahn, Ki Suk" <kshahn@datalogics.com>
Subject: WIPO asks for your comments on domain name revocation rules

In  http://wipo2.wipo.int/process2/rfc/rfc1/
<http://wipo2.wipo.int/process2/rfc/rfc1/> 

WIPO is asking for your comments on whether it should continue to do things
like "give" the domain name crew.com to J.Crew (which has trademarked
'CREW'). 
( http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/d2000-0054.html
<http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/d2000-0054.html>  , rather
interesting reading).  The comment period ends Sept 15.  

Arbitrators are now deciding if it's fair that someone who knows how to
register domain names (sometimes known as cybersquatters) can make money
from big business slow on the uptake. 

The links above from this CNET story:
http://www.news.com/Perspectives/Column/0,176,474,00.html
<http://www.news.com/Perspectives/Column/0,176,474,00.html?st.ne.per.gif.a> 

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Date: 11 Aug 2000 15:58:12 -0400
From: "Smith, Mark L" <SmithML3@navair.navy.mil>
Subject: Phonebooths

>Subject: Where have all the phone booths gone?
>...Do they still exist anywhere?
>
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I live in Southern Maryland. There are many Amish farmers in my community.
They are not allowed to have phones in their home. So scattered along a
rural two lane road are old style Aluminum/Glass phone booths. They may have
plexiglass (I didn't look that close.) They are at least 35 years old.

Mark 
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Date: 11 Aug 2000 16:13:59 -0400
From: Jim Jordan <wjjordan@nortelnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: Number portability D O E S N O T W O R K ! ! ! !

In article <1r7uos0ln2phb2er6a5khtf5fa8i65060m@4ax.com>,
W.D. \"Bill\" Garfield <wdg@hal-pc.org> wrote:

>Resporg is QWEST and they have been contacted and trouble tickets
>opened.  The 800 service still does not work.

>A satellite office of mine in Oklahoma (also with Qwest as their
>carrier) also cannot reach any of the ported numbers.

>Sounds like a conspiracy to me.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity.  They may not be out to get you, just incompetent enough to
not give you what you contracted for.

>However, the burned child fears the fire. Lesson learned.  I'm getting
>ready to move an entire trading floor later this year or early next.
>=46rom the experience gained here it would appear that we should forget
>number porting and in lieu thereof simply have the new PRI trunks
>backhauled into the present host CO.  Hang the cost, those numbers
>simply must work.

Yep.  If you want it done well, it will cost you.  But if you can't
afford the cost of it failing, the extra cost will eventually wind up
being just noise.

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Date: 11 Aug 2000 17:28:25 -0400
From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Directory Assistance Errors (Was Re: MSNBC on 411)

In article <slrn8p137c.rk2.sjsobol@amethyst.nstc.com>, 
sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net (Steve Sobol) wrote:

> From 'AES':
> 
> >[P.S. -- It's my understanding -- though I'm NOT an authority on this -- 
> >that your local phone company may NOT cut off your service, or otherwise 
> >hassle you, if you refuse to pay charges on your bill that they are just 
> >passing through for other companies.]
> 
> They may not be able to, but the company for which they are billing 
> probably
> can come after you.

Yes -- but *will* they? (for a couple of bucks worth of refused charges 
- -- and your notes on the invalid numbers they supplied you).
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Date: 11 Aug 2000 21:06:55 -0400
From: Jack Hamilton <jfh@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Phone Fears: Malignant or Benign?

Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote:

>>Aren't digital cell phones supposed to transmit with less power anyway?
>
>    This question demonstrates a lack of understanding about antenna
>design.  
>
>    A satellite dish is the most extreme example.  For that reason,
>it makes it the easiest to understand.  
>
>    The output of a satellite transmitter is often as low as one hundred
>milliwatts.  Even so, the power leaving the dish is in the megawatt
>range.  

No, a 100 milliwatt transmitter transmits 100 milliwatts, no matter what
kind of antenna it has.  

An antenna increases the effective radiated power of a transmitter by
concentrating all the radio waves into a small area.  The actual signal
strength is not increased, but the tiny area at which the satellite
antenna is aimed gets all of the signal. 

Cell phone antennas, by design, will be omni-directional, so you don't
have to find the nearest cell and keep the antenna pointed towards it.
The comparison with a satellite antenna is not a good one.  




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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:20:15 -0400
From: "Judith Oppenheimer" <joppenheimer@icbtollfree.com>
Subject: 8/11/00 ICBTollFree.Com HEADS UP HEADLINES

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P - DOMAIN NAMES: THE INTELLIGENCE FACTOR
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