Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:05:54 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Subject: TELECOM Digest V20 #4 To: ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu
TELECOM Digest Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:09:37 EST Volume 20 : Issue 5
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
Re: An Electronic Spy Scare Is Alarming Europe (W.D.A. Geary) Re: DoubleClick Looks to Regain Surfers' Trust (John S. Maddaus) Re: DoubleClick Looks to Regain Surfers' Trust (Someone) Re: http://www.dialpad.com (Steve Sobol) Re: http://www.dialpad.com (Susan Chen) Searching: Info on Service Usage Accounting and Billing (Bharat Bhushan) Book Announcement--Stefik (Jud Wolfskill) Regarding FAX Spammers (Steve Winter) Re: Long Lines Bells (Phil Smiley) Re: TELECOM Archives Censored as "Pornography" (Roy Smith) Re: TELECOM Archives Censored as "Pornography" (W.D.A. Geary)
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From: wdag@my-deja.com (W.D.A. Geary) Subject: Re: An Electronic Spy Scare Is Alarming Europe Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:03:26 GMT Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy.
In article <telecom20.4.10@telecom-digest.org>, Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> wrote:
> By SUZANNE DALEY
> PARIS, Feb. 23 -- Fears that the United States, Britain and other
> English-speaking countries are using a cold-war eavesdropping network
> to gain a commercial edge roused passions across Europe today, even
> after Washington and London roundly denied the notion.
> The subject kept the European Parliament in Brussels entranced for
> hours and drew banner headlines across the continent. One political
> cartoon showed Britain in bed with the United States, despite
> Britain's membership in the European Union.
Given the French government's past use of espionage to support its state-owned companies, this reminds me of another (fictional) pronouncement by a French official: "I'm shocked - shocked! - to find gambling going on here!!!" - as he pocketed his winnings.
W.D.A.Geary Wardenclyffe Microtechnology Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
From: jmaddaus@NO_SPAM.usa.net (John S. Maddaus) Subject: Re: DoubleClick Looks to Regain Surfers' Trust Reply-To: jmaddaus@NO_SPAM.usa.net Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:09:01 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet
Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> wrote:
> If this is the first time you've ever visited a Web site that does
> business with DoubleClick, DART will place a cookie on your hard drive.
> The cookie is computer code that gives you an identification number,
> according to Eddie Smith, DoubleClick's vice president of product and
> business development.
Which is why I have my browser set to accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server and to warn me before accepting any cookies. I always manually reject cookies that are associated with advertising and regularly clear both cache and cookies from my machine using a batch file I picked off of either Tucows or Zdnet (can't remember which). Ironically one of the biggest offenders of placing doubleclick ad cookies on my machine has been the home page of my ISP. So, I set my home page to some other location and only visit when necessary. I've actually been able to keep spam down to a manageable level.
From: "Someone" <someone@somewhere.com> Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: DoubleClick Looks to Regain Surfers' Trust Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:44:33 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
"Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> wrote in message news:telecom20.4.5@telecom-digest.org:
> Every time you call up a Web page, somebody, somewhere, is tracking
> your every more [by placing] a cookie on your hard drive.
Do what I do. Either configure your browser to reject cookies or else routinely delete all cookies.
From: sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.Net (Steve Sobol) Subject: Re: http://www.dialpad.com Date: 28 Feb 2000 21:55:21 GMT Organization: New Age Consulting Service Inc., Cleveland, OH, USA
> From 'contact_phoff':
> I heard that there might be a sound card available that would enhance the
> sound quality of the calls made from dialpad.com but have not been able to
> locate or identify the sound card that would make this difference. Does
> anyone out there know of the sound card I am looking for.
For what it's worth ...
A friend called me over Dialpad. I wouldn't have been able to tell the call wasn't made from a phone if he hadn't said so (I was on my regular phone line). But he had some noise and other quality problems on *his* end. (interesting!)
North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net Steve Sobol, President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET
From: Susan Chen <1SSC9654@mtsac.edu> Subject: Re: http://www.dialpad.com Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:48:33 -0800 Organization: CSUnet
Dialpad.com is created by Korean, so you might want to check so Korean sound Card Manufacture.
contact_phoff wrote:
> I heard that there might be a sound card available that would enhance the
> sound quality of the calls made from dialpad.com but have not been able to
> locate or identify the sound card that would make this difference. Does
> anyone out there know of the sound card I am looking for.
> May You Be Blessed With Good Health & Abundance, or as Spock might
> say, "Live Long and Prosper" :-)
Patricia A Hoffman Hoffman Enterprises The "ONE-STOP-SHOP" http://www.OppsKnocks.com Voice Mail: 1-760-280-6459 Fax: 1-954-827-7689
From: bhu <bhu@fokus.gmd.de> Subject: Searching: Info on Service Usage Accounting and Billing Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:07:21 +0100 Organization: GMD-FIRST
Dear Readers,
I am searching for information on service usage accounting and billing products and standards (from IETF, TMF, ITU-T, etc.) for our research and development purposes.
What we are specifically interested in:
* Accounting and billing for Internet services such as VoIP, video conferencing, web and domain hosting, etc.
* Information and standards on service usage data record
* Tariff schemes and tariff management
* Standards (produced by IETF, TMF, ITU-T, etc.) on service usage accounting and billing.
* Information on service usage accounting and billing system (both commercial solutions and research prototypes).
* Information on systems that are based on an ORB (which version and implementation of ORB is used?)
* If we wish to integrate our prototype system into a commercial product, what sort of programmable interfaces do the available systems provide?
I would like to give some background information. We are developing a prototype of service usage accounting system for IP-based and telecom networks and we want to enhance the functionality of the prototype to include billing functionality. We want to do this with a view to integrate many vendors into our prototype accounting system. The main purpose of doing this is to develop a prototype of an integrated accounting and billing system that can deal with diverse accounting and billing needs. We would also like to add value to the services provided our prototype. Our prototype provides IDL interfaces for the purpose of integrating other vendors' billing systems. The prototype is being developed using Visibroker, Java and C++ and we also include in our implementation certain concepts of TINA (Telecommunication Information Networking Architecture).
I shall be very grateful if you could provide me with information on above mentioned points. If fact, any information, hints or suggestions will be very useful. Please send your answers directly at my email address: bhushan@fokus.gmd.de
Many thanks in advance,
Best regards,
Bharat Bhushan
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:27:20 -0400 From: Jud Wolfskill <wolfskil@MIT.EDU> Subject: Book Announcement--Stefik
The following is a book which readers of this list might find of interest. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/STE1RHF99
The Internet Edge Social, Technical, and Legal Challenges for a Networked World Mark Stefik
Sometimes when we face change, we feel conflicting forces driving us forward and pulling us back. This place of tension and confusion can be called an "edge." The "Internet edge" is our collective struggle to change as the world becomes more connected. Turmoil at the Internet edge occurs around interacting social, legal, and technological realms. Examples include issues of on-line privacy, censorship, digital copyright, and untaxed business competition over the Net. Such issues reflect conflicts between values--local and global, individual and corporate, democratic and nondemocratic.
This book is an eagle's eye view of the Internet edge. It is about the experiences of those who encountered similar issues as they built precursors to the Net such as videotext, teletext, and the Source. It is about the trends in technology that will make the Net of the next few years a very different experience from the desktop surfing of today. Finally, it is about how old myths of magic, power, and control can help us to understand our fascination and fear of new technologies.
Mark Stefik is a Principal Scientist and Manager of the Human Document Interactions Area at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and adjunct member of the Secure Document Systems area. He is the author of Internet Dreams (MIT Press, 1996).
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From: steve@sellcom.com (Steve Winter) Subject: Regarding FAX Spammers Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:31:15 -0500 Organization: WWW.SELLCOM.COM Reply-To: steve@sellcom.com
Update,
We had been FAXing spam FAXes over to the FCC, but they have asked that we now mail them. The reason being that they want the top header line intact and re-FAXing often overwrites that top header.
So, what we are doing now when we receive a spam FAX is printing it out, noting any caller ID info and dropping it into a Priority mail envelope to send them off once a month or so.
Steve
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From: Phil Smiley <epsmiley@epix.net> Subject: Re: Long Lines Bells Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:53:58 GMT
Long Lines was shortened name for AT&T Long Lines. Long Lines was the long distance arm of the Bell System. Long Lines' lost it's identity when it was folded into AT&T at divestiture in '84. Long Lines gave us the famous "Reach Out and Touch Someone" ads ... sigh, those were the days.
Smiley
Margaret Hill wrote:
> Hi Patrick. I recently purchased a charm bracelet with 2 bells on it.
> The bells look like the "Bell System" bells and are inscribed:
> "1 Year Attendance Award LONG LINES". Are you familiar with LONG LINES?
> Was this once a telephone company? Any information you could share
> would be greatly appreciated.
> Margaret Hill
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: "Long Lines" was the informal name for
> AT&T's long distance operation. "Bell System" was another informal
> name for AT&T. PAT]
From: Roy Smith <roy@endeavor.med.nyu.edu> Subject: Re: TELECOM Archives Censored as "Pornography" Organization: NYU School of Medicine, Educational Computing Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:15:01 -0500
Judith Oppenheimer <joppenheimer@icbtollfree.com> wrote: > One of the keywords that triggers blocking is "chat." If memory serves
> correctly, Pat put a chat section on his site.
> That's probably the (erroneous, inaccurate, inappropriate, inapplicable, and
> just plain stupid!) problem.
We had this exact same stupidity happen inside our own intranet. We hired a consulting company to develop an on-line sexual harrasement training course forus. The day after people started taking the course, people in one part of our campus found that the URL had been blocked at one of our own firewalls. And this is in a hospital, where a lot of traffic contains anatomical references. What brain-damage.
Roy Smith <roy@popmail.med.nyu.edu> New York University School of Medicine
From: wdag@my-deja.com (WDA Geary) Subject: Re: TELECOM Archives Censored as "Pornography" Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:58:07 GMT Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy.
In article <telecom20.4.9@telecom-digest.org>, Judith Oppenheimer <joppenheimer@icbtollfree.com> wrote:
> One of the keywords that triggers blocking is "chat." If memory serves
> correctly, Pat put a chat section on his site.
Tough luck for French feline fanciers, n'est-ce pas?
W.D.A.Geary Wardenclyffe Microtechnology Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
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