Date: 4 Aug 2000 06:15:12 -0400 Message-ID: <20000804101512.1854.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com> From: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org (Telecom Digest) To: telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Subject: Telecom Digest V2000 #7 Reply-To: editor@telecom-digest.org Sender: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Errors-To: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Precedence: bulk X-UIDL: 2854dd6dc1e14c3402c9b35262fd3f38 Status: RO X-Status: Telecom Digest Friday, August 4 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 007 In this issue: ICB HeadsUp Headlines Re: ICB HeadsUp Headlines Further to this ICB Toll Free issue I must have missed this back in April testifying before COPA panel tomorrow ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 4 Aug 2000 01:54:43 -0400 From: "Peter Hope-Tindall" Subject: ICB HeadsUp Headlines I don't mind the ICB headlines - but can we lose the advertising. I felt that this was borderline inappropriate with a live moderator - but I think we may be on a slippery slope with an automated system. Sooner or later everyone will start disguising their advertising as news! Regards, Peter Hope-Tindall peter@hope-tindall.com http://www.hope-tindall.com/peter (416) 410-0240 Voice (416) 410-2820 Facsimile - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 4 Aug 2000 01:54:44 -0400 From: "Peter Hope-Tindall" Subject: Re: ICB HeadsUp Headlines I don't mind the ICB headlines - but can we lose the advertising. I felt that this was borderline inappropriate with a live moderator - but I think we may be on a slippery slope with an automated system. Sooner or later everyone will start disguising their advertising as news! Regards, Peter Hope-Tindall peter@hope-tindall.com *** http://www.hope-tindall.com/peter (416) 410-0240 Voice *** (416) 410-2820 Facsimile - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 4 Aug 2000 02:46:12 -0400 From: "Peter Hope-Tindall" Subject: Further to this ICB Toll Free issue I notice that the ICB Toll Free web site extols the Telecom Digest as an opt-in marketing partner: http://www.icbtollfree.com/advertiz.cfm "emailed daily to opt-in list of ICB Toll Free News subscribers and opt- in list of ICB-marketing partner Telecom Digest." Well - I didn't opt-in at all for this ICB advertising. Please - if you want to send the news; that's OK - please don't send the ad's - or if you wish merely post a url to link to that has both news and ad's. Peter Hope-Tindall peter@hope-tindall.com http://www.hope-tindall.com/peter (416) 410-0240 Voice (416) 410-2820 Facsimile - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 4 Aug 2000 03:01:43 -0400 From: "Peter Hope-Tindall" Subject: I must have missed this back in April I still think this should be news only - zero ads, merely credit for ICB! - ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 01:04:44 EDT From: TELECOM Digest Editor Subject: ICB Toll Free Consultancy and TELECOM Digest Forge Alliance The Internet's premier 800 and Domain Name Consultancy/News Service, and the Internet's oldest continuing e-journal about telecommunications, team up in content and distribution pact. NEW YORK, April 4, 2000 -- ICB Toll Free, premier source of toll free 800 and dot com industry intelligence, analysis and news, today announced an alliance with TELECOM Digest, the oldest continuing e-journal about telecommunications on the Internet. ICB partially replaces International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as primary Digest underwriter, and will distribute its daily HeadsUp Headlines to the Digest's 2,500+ email subscribers and 8,000+ daily web site visitors, as well as Usenet comp.dcom.telecom. ICB Toll Free News covers 800 and dot com politics and news, delivering competitive intelligence to a business leadership of corporate and industry giants, as well as small business owners and entrepreneurs. "ICB keeps us up on the changing marketplace," says Emil G. Michael, Director of Business Development, Tellme Networks, Inc., "providing intelligence we consider a critical driver of our business. "ICB is our eyes and ears," agrees Richard Sapio, CEO of MUTUALS.COM. "With the convergence of communications occurring so rapidly, ICB helps me to run on 'Internet Time'," adds Custis F. Dunn, Executive Director, Telecom Institute. "We are honored to be a key sponsor of TELECOM Digest, the granddaddy of telecom journals on the Internet," says Judith Oppenheimer, President and Publisher of ICB. "Throughout its almost twenty year history on the net it has maintained the highest standards of editorial integrity, thanks to Editor Pat Townson, who moderates with wisdom, discretion, and good humor. TELECOM Digest remains to this day, a key news and analysis resource for industry leaders and watchers alike, worldwide." Patrick Townson, Digest Editor notes, "ICB's Judith Oppenheimer is a frequent and valued contributor to TELECOM Digest. The addition of ICB's daily HeadsUp Headlines, with its unique spotlight on toll free 800 and domain name issues, puts critical content on the front burner for Digest readers. Its a win-win relationship, and we're very pleased to have ICB on board." ABOUT ICB ICB Toll Free News (http://icbtollfree.com), premier source of 800 and dot com industry news, is owned by ICB Inc., a consulting practice (http://1800TheExpert.com) founded in 1993 and publisher of the WhoSells800.com Toll Free Service Provider Directory (http://whosells800.com). ICB is an industry leader in toll free and domain name intelligence, advising business owners, corporate marketers and the telecom industries since 1993. ABOUT TELECOM DIGEST TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications 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, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. The Digest is the oldest continuing e-journal about telecommunications on the Internet, having been founded in August, 1981 and published continuously since then, and is possibly the second oldest e-zine on the internet in any category. Archives are available for review and research at http://telecom-digest.org. - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 4 Aug 2000 04:05:32 -0400 From: Bennett Haselton Subject: testifying before COPA panel tomorrow [sent to journalists on Peacefire's press contacts list] I'll be testifying at the Congressionally appointed COPA panel tomorrow, at Commission's third and final hearing on blocking software, starting at 9:00 a.m. at San Jose State University. The last hearing was the one in Richmond, VA on July 20-21 -- a Peacefire representative attended that hearring with a copy of our reports showing the sites blocked by ClickSafe and BAIR, two of the companies that had sent representatives to testify at that hearing. At the August 3-4 hearing, I'll be testifying about the problem of "overblocking" in general, i.e. blocking software accidentally or deliberately blocking non-pornographic sites. So far the COPA Commission has actually been good about acknowledging our side of the story; several of our reports on blocking software were added to their list of "submitted papers" at: http://www.copacommission.org/papers/ including two reports (the ClickSafe and BAIR reports) that were published basically to embarrass people who were testifying before the COPA Commission on the same day :) Naturally, we're against the COPA law (Child Online Protection Act -- see CopaCommission.org for more information), so for the past few months I was snickering about the fact that the commission ran out of money less than halfway through the hearings and was now basically bankrupt. Now I'm the one they're calling and telling that they can't reimburse for the plane ticket and the hotel because they have no money, so it's not funny any more!! I'll be checking voice mail back home while I'm on the road, so you can still leave messages for me at (425) 649 9024. -Bennett bennett@peacefire.org http://www.peacefire.org (425) 649 9024 - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ End of Telecom Digest V2000 #7 ******************************