HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: andyj@phoebe.loni.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: ringback wanted for area code 805 (GTE)
Date: 12 Sep 92 02:01:21 GMT
Reply-To: afj@anes.ucla.edu
Organization: UCLA Dept. of Pharmacology, Los Angeles, CA

It depends on the switch. GTE-CA uses a variety of ATT, GTE, and NT switches.
Well, the 'dial-your-own-number' routine works for the GTD-5, but as far as I
know, nothing else. If the switch is a 1E or 1AE, at least down here in GTE-land
on the west side of LA, you dial either 956-XXXX Your last four digits),
or 958-XXXX. You get dial tone, hit the switchhook for 1 second, hear 
varying tone pattern, and hang up. That used to do it. Now-a-days, it only 
works one of every three times tried. The way to tell it is going to work
is by hearing dial tone. If you hear busy, you've got the wrong code.
Try 956-XXXX, 958, or 1956 or 1958. I believe that on the DMS-100 switches,
the way to get this to work (in GTE-land) is to dial 113-XXX-XXXX, (your whole
number). I make no promises and I visit no premesis. Your mileage WILL vary.
-A. Jacobson
-- 


-Andy Jacobson  <andyj@phoebe.loni.ucla.edu>
From: upsetter@mcl.ucsb.edu (Jason)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: ringback wanted for area code 805 (GTE)
Date: 7 Sep 92 06:41:54 GMT


Does anyone happen to know the ringback for 805?  I'm in GTEland, so other
GTE ringbacks may work. The ol' dial-your-own-number-hear-the-clicks-and-hangup
trick doesn't work.

Jason		upsetter@mcl.ucsb.edu
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom,austin.talk
From: procha@titan.ucc.umass.edu (PAUL ROCHA)
Subject: Re: Phone Jacks
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:00:10 GMT

Well, to hook up a second line on your phone jacks (this is assuming that
you are hooking them up in a residence, or someother NON-PBX setup.) You simply
connect the Red wire from the Network Termination Point to the Black wire of
your house/office wires, and the Green wire from the NTP to the Yellow wire of
your house/office wires.  In a normal telephone setup, the Black & Yellow wires
are not connected.  On a two line phone, the black & yellow pair are for the
second line.... 

Note, with PBX equipment, most phones use two pairs of wires, both the red & 
green, and the yellow & black. However, your office might be wired with three
pair wire. If that's the case, you can run a normal phone line along the
third wire pair.

One additional note. (As if this wasn't unclear enough! <GRIN>)  If you do
not have a two line phone, you will have to connect the yellow and black wires
to the red & green wires in a separate RJ-11 jack to be able to use them.

Hope that helps, if you need more help, email me with the specifics, and I'll
be able to help you.

P. Rocha


Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: procha@titan.ucc.umass.edu (PAUL ROCHA)
Subject: Re: Zip-Phone
Summary: I want this too! (or just the data)
Keywords: ZIP NPA NTX NXX XREF CROSS REF
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:12:15 GMT

I am interested in obtaining the data for a cross reference of zip codes,
states, NPA's & NXX's. If anyone can tell me where I could get this data,
it would be greatly appreciated.  If it includes city info, that would be
great too.  Umm, it doesn't have to be in any specific format, as I can pretty
much extract/convert  anything to a .DBF file (We all gotta have our talents
:->)  I do consulting for a lot of non-profit organizations, and could use this
information to help them clean up their donor bases. (You wouldn't believe how
ugly they get)

Thanks,

P. Rocha
From: stevef@wrq.com (Steve Forrette)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Portable (Cordless) phone security
Date: 16 Sep 92 03:12:55 GMT
Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA

In article <1992Sep15.232459.5149@spdcc.com> eli@spdcc.com (Steve Elias) writes:
>
>i think you are not recalling correctly here, sir.
>it is legal to listen to cordless phone conversations
>in all cases, as far as i know.  name a place it is illegal 
>if you can!  we're talking 46.6 to 46.9 Mhz or so, yes?

Try the State of California.  Shortly after the US Supreme Court decided
that there was no expectation of privacy for users of cordless phones, and
thus said that it was legal to listen, California passed a state law which
specifically makes this illegal.  CA is the only juristiction in the US
that has passed such a law, as far as I know.

Steve Forrette, stevef@wrq.com
From: jpw@minerva.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: telephone information
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:23:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Drexel University, Philadelphia PA

I was wondering if anyone could help me with information, or tell me where
I could find out:

I would like to build my own telephone/answering machine, and I was wondering
how to get the info to power the thing from the phonw lines. Does anyone
know how this works?

Thanks,
Joe Wetstein
From: helwig@niktow.canisius.edu (Bevvy Helwig)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: fONOROLA?
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:44:54 GMT
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208


   I'm just curious if anyone out there has ever heard of a long distance
company called: fONOROLA CORP.
   It's spelled just that way.

   If you have heard of them what is your impression of them, or what have
you heard?

-- Bev Helwig
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 18:44:50 -0400 
From: Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Ringback wanted for 412 (Pittsburgh), and ANAC is known.
	<1992Sep12.211529.6059@ecst.csuchico.edu>

Anyone know the ringback number for 412 (Pittsburgh)?

The ANAC here is 711-6633 or 711-4411 depending on where you are. (it is
711-6633 in the neighborhood CMU is in, too bad it doesn't work from
most CMU phones). Someplaces neither of those worked (they gave a weird
busy, with screwed up frequencies, which is what you get if you dial
711-XXXX with a wrong XXXX. So there might be more 711-XXXX codes that I
don't know off for some sections.)

I've only used the 711-6633 number successfully.

By the way, 958 is the ANAC for New York Telephone. I heard 511 might
work in some areas (I've heard Long Island mentioned) but have never
tried that number.

Newsgroups: alt.uu.math.misc
From: ppc1@cec1.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu)
Subject: mathematica plot
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 22:17:43 GMT

hi everyone,

i have been trying to plot the direction field of y'=-xy for an hour
using Mathematica.  i have the book by wolfram but still can't figure 
out how.  can anyone please give me a hand?

thanks in advance

pete

Newsgroups: alt.uu.future
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: Study groups via UU
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:34:28 GMT

You've decided to learn about computer theory on your own, by reading
books.  You are going to an exam to get credits for the topic, and
your university has a list of the issues required for the exam and a
list of possible books to use.  You want to use the Usenet University
to help you.  Here are some ideas on how to do this.

1. Forming a study group

Announce your plan on the UU newsgroups (for example alt.uu.future and
alt.uu.comp.misc) and ask if other people share some of your goals and
are willing and able to use UU.  Gather a group of people willing to
learn the same subject - it won't be necessary for all to plan an exam
to have, but sharing goals will help.  Others should have access to
books or other material on the topics - not necessarily the exact same
books you have access to.

2. Negotiating how to study

Compare requirements of the exams and goals, decide amongst the group
what to cover in the group.  This can be done on one of the UU groups
- new participants might come in at this time, some might decide to
not go with the group.  Plan how to use the group - if keywords are
used on subject lines, etc.  Plan what each will do.  Plan how you
will divide work, what exactly are the goals of the project (ie.
whether material for "later generations" will be produced or whether
it'll be mostly throw-away discussions and summaries).  Decide what
tools to use, etc.

3. Proceeding with the group work

Let's say you divide the topic to parts on which each people will at
first write a short outline of the topic, have it commented by others
and then proceed to write a longer summary of her part, possibly with
exercises for others.  Different people will have different books and
approaches, so it is reasonable to have many persons on each fields.
Discuss difficult topics, comment on other people's work.

4. Make a summary of the work done

If you decided to go for writing lasting material for also others to
use, edit the material produced together to fit in one document
covering all of the topic area, archive it in one of the UU archives
for later generations.

5. Make a report on the effort

Write a summary on how the project went.  Descibe weaknesses, what
went wrong, what went well, what ideas came too late to implement,
what pitfalls to avoid.
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future
From: lehman@george.arc.nasa.gov (John Lehman -- GDP)
Subject: Re: Another point of view (angels on the web)
Organization: RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 20:10:57 GMT

Rodger Coghlan writes:

>I was just thinking about the new vision phones that
>are (again) being marketed by AT&T (et al).  The vision portion is just 
>bits and bytes so you could tailor what someone sees when they call you
>by using a good graphics package, and a lotg of tinkerin 
>around and you could be anyone you wanted to be (just like on a MUD but
>with pictures).  I may not be articulating this very well.  For some
>interesting ideas you could read John M. Ford's _Web of Angles_. 
[etc.]

Sure, someone will figure that out.  

The question is, how can you ensure that a particular image has _not_
been altered?

One way is to receive an image by two methods, so that you
can compare them.

Would it be possible to send, as part of the image on the vision
phone, some kind of "thumbprint" or verifier-of-genuineness, so
that you know my image is really what I look like?  I think not.
You could pretty well depend on my ignorance or lack of skill
in distorting my image, but theoretically there's no way you could
know for sure that an image is what a person says it is.

In some "media" we have verification-of-genuineness by signature,
fingerprint, retinal-scan (in sci. fi. anyway), or password.  Generally
though, don't you have to take someone's word for it that a thing
is genuine?  Let's consider the obvious
example: the genuineness of the current message:  do you really know 
that "I" wrote it?  (In fact I _have_ been mis-represented in another
newsgroup -- I have no idea how my "signature" got inserted into one of 
their messages.)  A bank will sometimes ask my mother's maiden name,
and if I can supply that "password", they take it as a clue that I'm
who I say I am (when I call on the phone).  Dick Tracy used to use
voice-prints -- which I suppose could also be altered in the same
manner as you suggest.

What's real anymore?

I don't know why this thread is in alt.uu.future but it's been fun 
anyway.

Given a choice, for my image I'll be {famous person #1} or {famous
person #2} and then make that image do some wierd stuff.  Oh that 
reminds me, as a further assurance that it's really Leona or really 
Phyllis, you guess that anyone else would be scared they'll find out 
who did it (the fear-of-call-tracing-or-wire-tapping factor) 
(so that people won't distort images).

(not much assurance, if in a free country)

lehman@ames.arc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future
From: grimjack@milton.u.washington.edu (Leslie Basel)
Subject: Another point of view (angels on the web)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 06:44:57 GMT


I was just thinking about the new vision phones that
are (again) being marketed by AT&T (et al).  The vision portion is just 
bits and bytes so you could tailor what someone sees when they call you
by using a good graphics package, and a lotg of tinkerin 
around and you could be anyone you wanted to be (just like on a MUD but
with pictures).  I may not be articulating this very well.  For some
interesting ideas you could read John M. Ford's _Web of Angles_. 

Maybe I should take some time and and work on the idea off line (if it hasn't
already been covered before (between all the chat about some of the new 
arcade games -- which I really mean to try when I get a chance.)

Feedback?

Rodger Coghlan

Newsgroups: alt.uu.future
From: frankc@netcom.com (Frank Crowell)
Subject: Re: Another point of view (angels on the web)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 18:56:01 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)


I once had humpback whales answering my phone (their sounds); some people
left messages saying I was sick.  I would guess that in the future,
I could have video images of the whales, their sound, and titles
superimposed telling the caller to leave a message.

Most people fought the video-phone because of their too literal
interpetation: two people looking at each other.  Instead,
video-phones could open up a mulitude of possiblities:
	-vido-monitor: call from anywhere and see the 'site'
	-video-fax & image-capture: see & snap.
	-video catalog & junk mailer: hm.
	-video 976-HOT-MOMMA: (no, honestly, i never call those
		numbers except for pure research!)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: Literature study via UU
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:16:00 GMT

You have a book or a document - a work of fiction like Alice in
Wonderland, a movie, the U.S. Constitution and the Federalist Papers,
some Shakespeare - which is available as an etext via project
Gutenberg, Open Book Initiative or some other way; ie, you and
everyone with a network connection can get the work.  You are willing
to read the book but feel that you would benefit from having others to
discuss it with, but none of your local friends are interested and
none of the Usenet newsgroups exactly fit the topic - also, with a
newsgroup you think you would have a problem of people being on
different levels and not committed to reading and discussing the work.
Here are some ideas on how to make UU help you.

1. Calling other interested people

Announce your plan on the UU newsgroups (for example alt.uu.future and
alt.uu.comp.misc) and ask if other people share some of your goals and
are willing and able to use UU and get the work in question.  Gather a
group of people willing to commit to reading it - or at least
refraining from confusing others if they get behind.

2. Negotiating the guidelines

Plan how to discuss and what the "charter" of the discussion will be -
ie. what will be the procedure to accept latecomers, whether there are
specific deadlines, whether there's a specific goal and so on.  There
needn't be lots of red tape and it doesn't matter if the guidelines
change in the process, but some commonly-accepted guidelines will help
to keep the discussion together.

This negiotiation can be done on one of the UU groups - new
participants might come in at this time, some might decide to not go
with the group.  Plan how to use the group - if keywords are used on
subject lines, etc.  Decide whether any requirements are set for each
to do or if it's just free-form discussion, and so on.

3. Proceeding with the study

Proceed as planned, probably changing plans when doing so.  As this is
Usenet (or more exactly altnet), there probably will be some noise -
just ignore the noise or email to people adding to the noise, there's
no point in adding more noise to the group.

4. Make a report on the effort

Write a summary on how the project went.  Descibe weaknesses, what
went wrong, what went well, what would be useful to do in a similar
project laters, what pitfalls to avoid.

//Jyrki
Newsgroups: alt.uu.announce,alt.uu.future,news.answers
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Self-defense class?
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:46:25 GMT

Bear Giles (bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU) wrote:

: I studied Tae Kwon Do for several years, but basically stopped when
: I started to remember my abuse.  (A 6'2" high green belt can do a lot
: of damage to college freshmen/white belts if he starts to lose it).

Did your tradition teach you the "inner path" as opposed to the "outer path"?
My judo and akaido instructor stressed the importance of finding and
following the inner path.  "Anyone can break heads, but it takes skill and
self-discipline to stop without hurting."  Years of meditation and study of
Zen (among other things) helped me with the self-discipline part.  One of the
purposes of martial arts is to integrate the body, spirit, and mind.  Too
many folks "learn" martial arts to defend oneself, without absorbing the
spirit.  If you have to fight, you have already lost.

I see (and hear) too many of these folks - "I have a black belt" or "I'm
studying Tae Kwon Do" - the implication is "don't mess with me or I'll
break your head."  <sigh>  Could you imagine a master saying that ... to
*anyone*?

: BTW, I would never rely on my martial arts training except in an
: emergency,... but it does teach you how to project an attitude which
: can make you a far less attractive target.

Lile I said, if you have to fight, you've already lost.  I haven't been
in a real fight (except on duty) outside of a dojo in (counting on fingers)
15 years or more.  I make myself a non-target, and the "tough guys" just walk
on by.  For those who would argue "well, you're a guy, but a woman can't *do*
that!" I submit to you the fact that my ex-roommate (who happens to be ex-Army)
is 5'6", about 110 lbs. soaking wet, and looks like she couldn't fight her
way out of a paper bag.  She has mastered the "non-target" look, and used to
walk around downtown San Francisco after midnight - never got bothered.

Annoyingly, some schools don't teach this - they try and teach you to project
a "big, bad" image to scare people away.  Trouble is, psychotics don't scare,
and there will *always* be someone out there bigger, meaner, and tougher than
you are.
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG     erc@apple.com                801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
From: root@khijol.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
Subject: planning
Date: 14 Sep 92 06:09:28 GMT

X-ANON-Version: 0.4


I have a plan again.  This is hell.  i will not break and tell anyone about
it.  poohbear is leaving for real.  she cant stop it.  they have won and beat
her and she doesn't care.  don't know why she made it through the weekend.
its her birthday today too.  happy happy happy day.

poohbear

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From: bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles)
Subject: Re: CHAPTER 3...
Organization: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration / Boulder Labs
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:07:12 GMT

In article <v3vnlkp.jdiamond@netcom.com> jdiamond@netcom.com (Joan M. Diamond) writes:
>Jeff, I hope you get some help, before you are faced with the choices in
>front of Krikket and Poohbear.  With your attitude, people might not try
>to reach out to you.

Perhaps he's hurting.  But there are people out there were really
have absolutely no interest in the concerns of others.

I have no problem with that.  Some day they'll learn that we aren't
all members of PETA and won't shed a tear when they die (or are
killed or executed).  I'm worried about _humans_, animals in human
form I don't give a shit about.

(BTW, this is what makes the death penalty debate so interesting.
I'm opposed to the death penalty in most cases where it has been used,
but a 16-year-old who murders someone because he's curious what people
look like when they die has no right to live.  I suspect the people
who claim the death penalty is inexcusable have never read about these
extreme cases.  (Another good one was the teenager who murdered his
own grandmother (who raised him after his mother abandoned him) for
her car)).


Bear Giles
bear@fsl.noaa.gov

(p.s., my name seems rather ironic after that comment :-)
Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
From: aatresa@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Teresa Kline)
Subject: Re: First post; plea for advice/support
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Yeah, *right* !
Date: 15 Sep 1992 09:45 EST  

In article <BuLnpt.6r3@twwells.com>, anon-1207@twwells.com (J. Steven) writes...
Welcome!

[lot of work-related worries deleted basically 'cause I didn't know how to 
edit them]

>I would appreciate any support or advice one might have.
> 

It sounds like you've pulled a classic move that I just *love* to do.  It's 
called over-extend.  In my case it's because I feel I'm not "good enough" 
that I take on the load of three people.  Before I know it, I've got more 
work than 3 people could do, and I feel like a failure.  Go figure!!
If you can, lighten the load a little.  If nothing else...take a vacation.  
I haven't had one in well over a year, and it shows.
If you can't offload some of the work, try to break it up into smaller 
pieces.  That way you *can* see progress.  On the report, don't say "do 
report" say "write intro to report".  That way it's a smaller chunk and you 
can see real progress.
Most of all, at least from *my* perspective, give yourself credit for being 
human.  I'm not sure that this behaviour of taking on too much is an 
idiosyncrasy of just survivors, either.  I've got a friend named Stephen 
that I *think* would agree with me.

Gentleness to all
-- Teresa

		Life -- just for the FUN of it!!!!
Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
From: fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Dr. Matt)
Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
Subject: Re: Woody Allen
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:39:01 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor

I missed most of this discussion, but formed an opinion when I heard that
a spokesperson for Allen stated to the press that "Woody Allen never has
publicly discussed his private life, and never will."

Bzzt.  He went on at length about his private life on Dick Cavett, among
other forums, numerous times over the years.  Much as I love many of his
films, I'm sorry, but until he comes clean, he's on my shit list.

--Matt the Musician  (more frequently seen in rec.music.compose)
Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
From: boserj@netcom.com (Jeffrey Boser)
Subject: Re: inspirational writings, etc.
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 23:03:50 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

aw@sei.cmu.edu (Anne Wulffraat) writes:
>I don't know if inspirational is the word for it, but _Atlas Shrugged_ by
>Ayn Rand turned my world around. She's not perfect, but she taught me that
>it's not bad to worry about me. It's what I needed to stop spending my
>life pleasing other people at my own expense.
>Anne

I swear on my life and my love of it that I shall live for no man and
let no man live for me.

<smile>

....jeff