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From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Funny Answering Service Error (was How Do I Locate Graybar?)
Date: 31 Aug 92 06:52:00 GMT
Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
Organization: Green Hills and Cows
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 674, Message 9 of 10

On Aug 30 at 18:45, TELECOM Moderator writes:

> [Moderator's Note: Did the answering service people look sort of
> askance at you after that whenever you were in their office? :)   PAT]

Back in my "big business" days, we had a young man in our service
department who was apprenticing to be an installer. As is custom, he
usually got stuck with much of the "gofer" responsibilities, such as
making trips to distributors to pick up supply orders.

He was newly married and his wife was a very young, insecure person
who checked up on her hubby several times a day. Late one afternoon,
she called for her man, only to be told by the service manager that he
had not yet returned from Graybar. The next day, word was all over the
shop about how when our young apprentice returned home, he was given
all manner of hell about drinking on the job, and worse, doing it in a
gay bar.

In his honor, we all referred to Graybar as "gaybar" from then on.


        John Higdon         |   P. O. Box 7648   |   +1 408 264 4115
    john@zygot.ati.com      | San Jose, CA 95150 |       M o o !
From: jpab+@andrew.cmu.edu (Josh N. Pritikin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Looking For Modem to Computer Network Service
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:51:15 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 663, Message 7 of 8

I am looking for companies that provide a service such that customers
with personal computers can using their modem to locally connect to a
network from which they can connect to our unix box.  Currently, I am
aware that PSI provides such a service and Tymnet may also.  Are these
the only two?


Josh Pritikin  joshp+@cmu.edu
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 23:43:13 GMT
From: hhallika@zeus.calpoly.edu (Harold Hallikainen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Modem Noise on Line
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 681, Message 9 of 14

	Another possibility here (although slight) would be poor
longitudinal balance in either the modem or the phone, making the
voltage to ground on each conductor of the twisted pair not equal and
opposite, allowing capacitive coupling into other pairs.

	Balanced twisted pair lines are great!  Radio stations have
twisted pairs running thru the same cables your phone does and they
get signal to noise of 70 dB or so.  This is truly amazing, especially
with dial pulses, ringing signals, and the LOUD off hook beeping
noise.


Harold
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:25:57 PDT
From: PGloger.es_xfc@xerox.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Clever Phone Fraud by 900 Line
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 679, Message 11 of 15

The {Wall Street Journal} on Friday, August 28 (or maybe Thursday the
27th) carried an article primarily about computer fraud, which
included one interesting tale of a computer/phone fraud.  I'm
reporting from memory here since I have been surprised to see no
mention of this story yet here in Telecom.

The gist of the story was that several employees of a large company
set up a 900 phone line outside of work, then went back to work and
programmed a company computer to repeatedly phone their 900 line,
quickly racking up huge 900-line charges.  The company evidently paid
the 900 charges only for a while at most, since the story became
sufficiently known to be written up in the WSJ.

An ironic added touch is that the large company in question was AT&T.

Definitely an imaginative way to rip off one's employer.

(No, none of us think rip-offs are good.  Yes, all of us expect 'most
large company phones to be blocked against outgoing 900 calls.)


Paul Gloger <PGloger.esxfc@Xerox.com>


[Moderator's Note: I certainly hope the employees in question were
fired immediatly when their fraud became known; and I hope that once
they had been discharged AT&T then referred their names to the U.S.
Attorney for criminal prosecution. Did the article discuss this?  PAT]
Date: 23 AUG 92 21:56   
From: MPA15AB!RANDY@TRENGA.tredydev.unisys.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Weird Intercept
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 658, Message 5 of 6

I'm trying to reach someone in the 213-663 exchange (I've reached this
number before).  When I dial it I get an intercept that says "We're
sorry; your call cannot be completed as dialed from the phone you are
using.  Please read the instruction card and dial again."  (There are
the standard SIT tones at the beginning.)  This is odd since I'm
calling from my office phone, not a pay phone.

(I also tried it as 310-663, but got a "Your call cannot be completed
as dialed" intercept.)


Randy Gellens            randy%mpa15ab@trenga.tredydev.unisys.com
>>>>>>> If mail bounces, forward to rgellens@mcimail.com <<<<<<<<
Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak only for myself
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:37:01 -0500
From: Phillip.Dampier@f228.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Phillip Dampier)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: CWA Members Ratify AT&T Contracts
Reply-To: phil@rochgte.fidonet.org
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 662, Message 9 of 14

CWA MEMBERS OVERWHELMINGLY RATIFY AT&T CONTRACTS

WASHINGTON -- Members of the Communications Workers of America have
overwhelmingly ratified new three-year contracts with AT&T, CWA Vice
President Jim Irvine announced today.

"Our members voted favorably by better than 88 percent to accept the
national operation and the national units contracts," said Irvine, the
union's chief negotiator in prolonged negotiations with AT&T.

The ratification votes protect retroactively on wages and other
provisions back to May 30, although the talks continued another six
weeks past that date before agreements were reached.

The unit-by-unit breakdown on local agreements follows:

    Bell Labs                   89.3  percent
    Installation and CARAs      85.03 percent
    MMS                         73.2  percent
    Manufacturing               89.7  percent
    Operations                  88.04 percent

The settlement, valued at $1.5 billion over three years, covers
100,000 workers represented by CWA and another 27,000 workers
represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
IBEW members also ratified these agreements.
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:33:04 GMT
From: billabs@nic.cerf.net (Bill Romanowski)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: PicturePhone Power Pinout?
Organization: CERFnet
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 661, Message 18 of 19

I have a pair of PicturePhones and want to provide them with correct
power. I know they can't be used as phones ... the have what appears
to be two video in/out bnc's and I want to connect them as a "video
mirror" ...

The units have no serial or product id's. Power looks like it comes in
on a pin header (with seven pins).

They are heavy aluminum boxes,camera on the top, landscape oriented
monitor on the bottom. A small WE (bell in a circle) logo on the front
on a greenish gray plastic bezel.

They'll be cool if I can get 'em up.

Any ideas out there?


bill romanowski   vp of antiuquities   prairie research
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 11:45:20 GMT
From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: GTE Fixes My DISA (One Year Late)
Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 671, Message 3 of 9

jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) writes:

> The message finally got through and they fixed it on Friday.  While I
> had their attention, I asked if they could please change my security
> code from 1234 to something a bit more secure.  "Sorry, it's
> hardcoded" was the reply.  I don't believe it.  And I am surely not
> going to pay for any calls when someone discovers this.

Ask them to change it again. And insist on *written confirmation* that
they can't change it. Then if you do get nailed, you'll have hard
evidence that you *couldn't* have prevented it.


Leonard Erickson		      leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
CIS: [70465,203]			 70465.203@compuserve.com
FIDO:   1:105/51	 Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
(The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)
From: bet@cyclone.sbi.com (Bennett E. Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Pulse Dialing Still Useful
Date: 26 Aug 92 02:36:49 GMT
Organization: Integration - Salomon Inc., NY
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 661, Message 4 of 19

I decided not to pay extra for DTMF dialing, so the phone company has
it blocked on my line. I've found a use for this setup: I've got a
regular trimline phone, and a cordless, both switchable. I use the
regular phone for placing calls; I only want the cordless for
receiving them. Living in an apartment in NYC it seems quite possible
that someone within range would have a compatible phone -- but by
switching the base unit of the cordless to tone dialing, I can make
the cordless phone effectively incoming-only, so nobody else can use
their cordless handset to place calls on my phone line.


Bennett    bet@sbi.com
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 17:40:50 GMT
From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: 2500 Picturephone in the News
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 670, Message 11 of 12

I was watching Nickelodeon for Ren and Stimpy last weekend and noticed
that in between features they have some sort of call in contest for
kids watching.  I only saw this twice, and both times the kids were
calling in on AT&T Picturephones.  They even said, "we've got Kim on
the line with her AT&T Picturephone," or something to that effect.  It
was a jerky picture, probably taking multiple still-frames every few
seconds.

Is Nick doing some kind of promotion with these phones that everybody
calling has one?

Oh, I thought it was cool how they piped the Picturephone picture onto
the screen.


Michael Rosen	Tau Epsilon Phi - George Washington University	
mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu   Michael.Rosen@bbs.oit.unc.edu or @lambada.oit.unc.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 18:25:06 EDT
From: Bill Rubin <rubin@watson.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Newest MCI F&F Offer - Free Calls!
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 662, Message 13 of 14

I saw a new (to me) MCI Friends and Family ad last night between
Murphy Brown and Designing Women.  Here's the offer: specify any one
person in your calling circle and receive a free ten minute call to
that person every month for the next year.  While aimed at new
customers, they invited existing F&F customers to call in to select
their choice as well.

Well, I called right away, after first getting no ringing at all, and
then dialing again and having it ring for a few minutes, someone
finally picked up and said that everyone was busy, they'd have to call
me back.  About 30 minutes later, they did.  They did try to get me to
add other people to my calling circle (including local numbers, for
when I travel and call them w/a calling card -- interesting approach).
I declined and just left it at the one number for free calls.

Anyway, the number is 1-800-756-4FRE(E).


Bill Rubin
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 00:00:44 GMT
From: johng@comm.mot.com (John Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: ABCD as a Phreaking Tool
Organization: Motorola, Inc. Land Mobile Products Sector
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 656, Message 6 of 10

> I remember that phreaks used to use ABCD to hack directory assistance.
> Without getting into the specifics, you could use certain combinations
> during a call to DA, and you would be put in a trunk from which you
> could actually answer information calls.

Ten years ago calls such as these to 555-1212 in some areas would
allow certain test modes.  One of these was a loop around test.  Two
people could call 555-1212 at a prearranged time and talk without
charge.  This method is so old and well known that if it still works,
someone must want it that way.

Most loops that previously passed the full audio bandwidth now only
pass a 1 KHz test tone.  ATT at one time had a set of loops available
to equipment manufacturers that required a person to talk
simultaneously onto both ends of the loop to set it up. After this,
the full audio bandwidth was available.  This technique worked
effectively to prevent these loops from being used as a phone phreak
meeting place.


John Gilbert    johng@ecs.comm.mot.com
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:23:09 GMT
From: oberman@ptavv.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Is RJ45 With Notch Same as RJ45 Without Notch?
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 666, Message 9 of 13

In article <telecom12.661.7@eecs.nwu.edu>, stlouis@unixg.ubc.ca (Phill
St. Louis) writes:

> The Subject says it all.

> I would like to ensure that these RJ45 wall jacks with a notch will
> work.  (I am pretty sure that they are Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC)
> RJ45 wall jacks that have been installed in some new offices.)  Will
> these work with the standard RJ45 (without notch) plugs?

Actually, they both have notches, but the DEC connector (called an
MMJ) has the notch offset while the standard RJ-45 has it centered. If
you have MMJ hacks installed in offices you will need MMJ plugs for
them. The RJ45 will not work.

The idea of the MMJ was to have a different connector for data to
avoid blowing up data equipment by putting the telco battery (and
ring) on it. While might have been a good idea, it never caught on and
I don't know of anyone other than DEC using it. Other vendors have
either ignored the problem or have designed their equipment to be
uneffected by telco voltages.

MMJ jacks are available at about the same cost as RJ-45s, so it's not
too expensive to use them. It's just a pain in the neck!


R. Kevin Oberman		Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Internet: koberman@llnl.gov	(510) 422-6955

Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.
Date: 04 Sep 92 02:36:56 GMT
From: lairdb@crash.cts.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Baby Bells and States
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 683, Message 8 of 10

In <telecom12.665.3@eecs.nwu.edu> kung@actin.ee.washington.edu (Darwei
Kung) writes:

> Judge Harold Greene decided the fate of the Bell System.  His rulings
> still stands today, and he is still the man who has the final say on
> the fate of RBOCs.

> [Moderator's Note: Actually, I believe one thing Greene did NOT say
> was how many holding companies there had to be or how many telcos
> would be assigned to each. I think AT&T was allowed to decide.  PAT]

Judge Greene:  "Okay, how many little companies?"
AT&T attorney: "Ummm, how about, ahhhhh... ... one?"

Hee hee.


Laird P. Broadfield     lairdb@crash.cts.com    ...{ucsd, nosc}!crash!lairdb
Date: Wed,  2 Sep 1992 16:12:59 -0500
From: Robert A. Carolina <rac@intercon.com>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: UK - US Compatible?
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 680, Message 8 of 9

Hello all,

I am moving to the UK next month and would apreciate some
advice/information about electronics compatability.  In addition to
the issues raised below, I would be grateful if you send replies along
with any advice or tips via Internet email to:

 rac@intercon.com

1. Will my phones work in the UK?  I have a couple of phones with
RJ-11 jacks and my own wire splicing kit.  Do they use RJ-11 jacks in
the UK?  Are the voltages, etc, compatible?  Will British Telecom come
and arrest me if I install my own phones?  Do I need to pay any extra
fee to use a modem?

2. Is my nice new Mitsubishi color TV going to work in the UK?  I have
heard that the broadcast standards are completely incompatible and I
must purchase a new TV in the UK.  (Yes, I am aware of the 75.00 pound
Sterling annual tax on color TV's.)

3. Will my other electronic gadgets work allright with the proper
transformer?  For example, my CD player?  Will a US CD player be
compatible with an amplifier purchased in the UK?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.


Rob Carolina
Assistant Corporate Counsel
InterCon Systems Corporation
950 Herndon Pkwy, Suite 420
Herndon, VA  22070    USA
703.709.5500    703.709.5521 (direct dial)
703.709.5555 (fax)    Internet email:  rac@intercon.com
Date: 23 Aug 92 18:30:13 GMT
From: dan@quiensabe.az.stratus.com (Dan Danz)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Pounding on an Octothorp
Reply-To: dan@tucson.az.stratus.com
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 657, Message 5 of 10

As a former technical writer, I was blessed with an editor who
adamantly refused to allow phrases like:

	"Hit the return key"     (Too violent)
and
	"Depress the return key"   (Too depressing, we have HAPPY keys)

I wonder what she would have done with:

"Pound the return key"   or "Pound the pound key".


L. W. "Dan" Danz                  VOS Mail:  Dan_Danz@vos.stratus.com
Sr Consulting Software SE         NeXT Mail: dan@az.stratus.com
Customer Assistance Center        Voice Mail/Pager: (602) 852-3107
Telecommunications Division       Customer Service: (800) 828-8513
Stratus Computer, Inc. 4455 E. Camelback #115-A, Phoenix AZ 85018
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92  17:49:26 EDT
From: Paul Robinson <FZC@CU.NIH.GOV>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: How to be Listed in the Internet White Pages
Reply-To: TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 679, Message 10 of 15

For persons wishing to make their Internet address public, you may
register it with the "Internet White Pages" which are maintained by
the Network Information Center (NIC), the same people who register and
assign Internet domains.

You send them an E-Mail message giving your name, your E-Mail address,
your mailing address and telephone number.  Within a week they will
send you back a code which is your initials and a 1 to 3 digit number.
There is no charge to be listed or to obtain this identification code.

Here is one example.  One of my accounts which has Internet access is
TDARCOS on MCI Mail, so I can list that.  For example, my name is Paul
Robinson, and my identification code assiged by the NIC (which is
called a 'NIC Name') is PR 142.  If you were to use the telnet
facility to call up the address shown below, you would find my name
and internet address (TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM).

Before I had an MCI account, I used a local BBS to access Internet (I
still do).  So on the NIC listings, I showed my Internet address as:
paul.robinson@f417.n109.z1.fidonet.org (which I still use and is still
valid.)

The address to E-Mail requests to be listed in the NIC "Internet White
Pages" is:    HOSTMASTER@NIC.DDN.MIL
From: am339@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael J. Logsdon)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Ohio Bell Announces DMS-100 for Cleveland East
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:13:39 GMT
Reply-To: am339@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael J. Logsdon)
Organization: TELECOM Digest
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 675, Message 6 of 12

We have just received a letter regarding the impending cutover to
DMS-100 on 10/24/92 for (216) 321/371/397/932 xxxx.  What do I need to
change for our SRX business switch in this Ohio Bell Eastern Cleveland
suburb?


Mike Logsdon    University School   am339@cleveland.freenet.edu
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 18:08 GMT
From: Richard Cox <mandarin@cix.clink.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Monitoring of Royal Telephone Calls 
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 671, Message 5 of 9

Laurence Chiu writes:

>>  the current scandal is the publication of recording of intimate phone
>>  conversations between Princess Diana and some unidentified "friend" in
>>  which the subject matter is embarrassing to say the least.

>>  The tapes were made by someone who was apparently just idly scanning the
>>  airwaves with his scanner and happened to pick up the cell-phone
>>  frequencies.  The last news report I saw indicated that the UK
>>  authorities had decided not to take any action against him.

If we are to believe what the British papers tell us, two separate
people "just happened" to buy a scanner, and recorded separate parts
of that conversations [not last week but some considerable time ago]
and then by coincidence the transcripts appear in the press, followed
almost immediately by the official statement that the persons making
and publishing the contents of the recordings would not be prosecuted.

It would be most surprising if those papers had carried that material
without some form of advance guarantee that no action would be taken
against them.  I will leave you to draw your own conclusions.


Richard Cox

Mandarin Technology, Cardiff Business Park, Llanishen, CARDIFF, Wales CF4 5WF
Voice: +44 222 747111      Fax: +44 222 711111      VoiceMail: +44 399 870101
E-mail: mandarin@cix.compulink.co.uk