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From: everettm@Cayman.COM (Mark Everett)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Home Alarm Systems
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:59:02 GMT
	<1ibumnINNhgr@thor.genrad.com> <7567@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com>
Distribution: ne
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: limey@hri.com's message of 5 Jan 93 16:25:35 GMT

In article <7567@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> limey@hri.com (Craig Hughes)
writes:
   In article <1ibumnINNhgr@thor.genrad.com>, rep@thor.genrad.com
   (Pete Peterson) writes: [ disucssion about using auto-dialer to
   call you when the alarm goes off ] |> |> It would seem that this
   only works if your phone service is through some |> direct
   microwave link.  I can't understand how people manage to sell alarm
   |> systems that rely on the use of standard telephone lines.  Would
   any |> self-respecting burglar neglect to disconnect the phone
   lines before |> entering the house?  |> 	(508)369-4400 x2478;
   Home: (508)256-5829 (Chelmsford, MA)

   I know someone who has an ADT security system in their home.
   Apparently cutting the phone line will cause the alarm to be
   activated, and the monitoring station to be notified. Does anyone
   know how this is done?  Obviously it can't be done via the phone
   line!

I don't believe this is correct.  There is some sort of telephone line
override device that precludes taking the phone off the hook, thereby
preventing dialing, once the alarm has been activated.  But I think if
someone cuts the lines and then breaks in, the alarm company will not
be notified unless they get lucky and are doing a regular status check
by dialing up the alarm system.  Even then, they may consider it a
telephone problem.

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From: heiser@acs.bu.edu (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: New England Telephone: Reduce your monthly phone bill
Date: 8 Jan 93 00:39:35 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <SPIKE.93Jan7165709@world.std.com> spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes:
>	Disclaimer:  I think NET is the one of the biggest bunches of
>bozos ever collected.  But you can blame them for everything.

Speaking of the phone company ... anyone know if there are tapes
avaialble somewhere of Lilly Tomlin's (is that her name?) phone
company skits?

... Are you calling from the number from which I'm speaking?   

:-)



Newsgroups: ne.general
From: ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg)
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 16:13:51 GMT

In article <C0Hs7t.79w@world.std.com> tonym@world.std.com (Tony Matt) writes:
  Well, once upon a time there was a plan to build the Southwest 
  Expressway, Inner Loop, and a Rte. 2 freeway through Cambridge,
  which would have provided alternatives to the Central Artery
  and SE-Xway.  They were stopped by (then) Gov. Frank Sargent
  when the environmetal/urban opposition to being paved over became
  too intense (Al Lupo's _Rights of Way_ is a good narrative on the
  development of the protest).

The "hero" of this book is Fred Salvucci, then a young lawyer.
Now that he's Transportation Secretary, he's on the other side of
the fence.  I was surprised by his role in the recent attempt to
put 8 lanes of double-decker highway between the Route 2 "rotary"
and the Fresh Pond twin rotaries, but it suddenly occurs to me
that perhaps he made this absurd proposal deliberately so it would
be shot down.
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: jb@world.std.com (Joel L Breazeale)
Subject: Re: ne.singles/ne.personals.ads && gatherings
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 16:43:14 GMT

In article <106114@bu.edu> sklarew@bass.bu.edu (daniel sklarew) writes:
>In article <DRG.93Jan4122445@candidus.ma30.bull.com> drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R. Guilderson) writes:
>
>ne.singles : for the singles scene in ne
>ne.personals.ads: for those ISO-types out there
>
I'm for both.  I'd likely post to both.  I've organized singles activities
and started a singles group in my past...

Anyone interested in ne.singles gatherings?  There used to be one, never went
to it however.

--Joel
jb@world.std.com
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin)
Subject: Re: Packies, was Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:22:19 GMT

In article <MSALETNI.93Jan6122423@jade.tufts.edu> msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik) writes:
>
>Other than that, I can't recall any non-liquor-store stores selling
>hard alchohol.  Just beer and wine.
>

Try Melvin's Pharmacy on Comm. Ave. in Brighton. The only liquor they sell
is of "medicinal" (i.e., extra high proof) quality.




-- 
Adam Gaffin
Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass.
adamg@world.std.com
Voice: (508) 626-3968. Fred the Middlesex News Computer: (508) 872-8461.
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: mgelman@cyclades.ma30.bull.com (Michael A. Gelman)
Subject: Channel 68
Reply-To: mgelman@cyclades.ma30.bull.com (Michael A. Gelman)
Organization: Bull HN Info Sys, Billerica MA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:09:26 GMT

Since we're speaking of tv stations, I noticed that I'm no longer
receiving 68.  Is it off the air or is my TV broken?

--Mike

-- 
Michael Gelman -- M.Gelman@ma30.bull.com 
Bull HN Info Systems -- Advanced Engineering Program 
(Any similarity between my opinions and those of Bull, living or dead, are
entirely coincidental.) 
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: gaf@alpha.aosg.gsf.dec.com (Gerald Feldman)
Subject: Re: Channel 68 and Prudential fire (was Re: Channel 68)
Reply-To: gaf@aosg.gsf.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:23:33 GMT

In article <1iceqiINN8r7@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan5.150926.15191@mips2.ma30.bull.com>, mgelman@cyclades.ma30.bull.com (Michael A. Gelman) writes:
|> |> Since we're speaking of tv stations, I noticed that I'm no longer
|> |> receiving 68.  Is it off the air or is my TV broken?
|> 
|> Geeze, don't you read the news :-)?
|> 
|> There was a small electrical fire on December 29 in the Proudential Building,
|> in a room housing equipment belonging to Channel 68.  The article about it in
|> the Globe said they'd be down for at least a few days.  I don't have a TV with
|> me here at work, so I can't check to see if they're back up :-), but I suspect
|> that this outage is what you noticed.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Jonathan Kamens                                         jik@MIT.Edu
|> Aktis, Inc.                                 Moderator, news.answers

-- 
A notice on Continental Cable says that they plan to be back up on
January 11 

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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg)
Subject: Re: New England Telephone: Reduce your monthly phone bill
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
Distribution: ne
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 16:21:08 GMT

In article <SPIKE.93Jan7165709@world.std.com> spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes:
	  Blame the DPU not the NET.  Supporting rotary dialing cost
  more than Touch Tone (tho probably nominally so), since on a modern
  switch you have to decode the pulses into tones anyway.  But the DPU
  won't allow NET to change more for pulse dial service, only to change
  for touch tone to subsidize pulse service.  The idea being that poor
  people are more likely to have rotary phones.

If the Touch Tone charge of $1/month or whatever it is was repealed by the DPU,
NET would raise the basic cost of all forms of service by at least $.99/month.
So grumble if you like to grumble, but don't think that under any
imaginable circumstance any telephone company is going to give up revenue.
From: heiser@acs.bu.edu (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:40:06 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <RHL.93Jan5083757@valhalla.mitre.org> rhl@valhalla.mitre.org (Roger Lincoln) writes:
>
>I find the sight of Staties a rarity, and speed traps on major
>highways even rarer.  I feel genuinely safe travelling at 65 even with

Be careful on the Mass Pike, though, particularly around Natick/Framingham.
The Staties there are thicker than black flies on a Spring day in 
New Hampshire!



Newsgroups: ne.general
From: sth@slipknot.mit.edu (Scott Hannahs)
Subject: NE Telephone - admits overcharging
Summary: First up against the wall when the revolution comes...
Keywords: corrupt capitalists
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Distribution: ne
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:00:40 GMT

Just a follow up to the note I posted last week.  New England Telephone
now admits (verbally) that they were miss-billing (read overcharging)
everyone in my exchange.  They are willing to rebate me the amount they
overcharged but I was told, "We can't rebate everyone since that would
cost too much".  I didn't hear any complaints about collecting too much
money.  They will rebate anyone who complains about it.

This is sleaze at its finest.

I do not know how many other bills are incorrect only that calls from
Jamaica Plain to the 353 exchange were (are?) billed at the local zone 1
call rate and not the free local rate.  With the kind of quality control
that they operate with I would guess the system is riddled with errors.
Has anyone else found such problems?  I was told that there couldn't be
an error since no one else complained.  HAH!

I am still waiting for a formal response before pushing the issue
further.
Scott Hannahs, F. Bitter National Magnet Lab, MIT NW14-1313
sth@slipknot.mit.edu
From: th@isr.harvard.edu (Todd Heatherton)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Comments on House Cleaning Services Wanted
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:40:18 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA


I would like to hear comments, suggestions, recommendations, etc.
about house cleaning services--i.e., the ones who come in to
clean once or twice a month (or more).  

Thanks
From: hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: New England Telephone: Reduce your monthly phone bill
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:22:33 GMT
	<1iifndINN2f0@early-bird.think.com>
	<PA_HCL.93Jan8185942@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
	<1993Jan09.052850.29591@gozer.mv.com> <BZS.93Jan9011937@world.std.com>
	<SPIKE.93Jan11122920@world.std.com>
Distribution: ne
Organization: The Evil Fascist IRC Admins From Hell, Inc.

Spike> == Joe Ilacqua <spike@world.std.com> 

[...]

 Spike> 	You missed one and with the new one today that's 109.

 Spike> 	And I hate NET.

It doesn't take 109 lines to hate NET. It doesn't take two lines to hate
NET. All it takes to hate NET is to deal with them *once*. 

24 lines (Flexpath T1). I can't wait for local loop competition.

--Helen
--
Helen Trillian Rose             	<hrose@eff.org, hrose@kei.com>
Electronic Frontier Foundation   	email eff@eff.org for EFF Info
Kapor Enterprises, Inc.                 Flames to: 
Systems and Networks Administration	women-not-to-be-messed-with@eff.org
Newsgroups: ne.general,ny.general
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: John Hancock's Nancy Davis Extends Seasons Greetings to NE/NY
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:19:26 GMT

RB> == Rich Brennan <brennan@merk.com>

 RB> Is this another one a them "Nancy Davis wows family and friends with
 RB> her one woman reenactment of the chariot race from _Ben_Hur_"
 RB> announcements Mike Willett often posts? Can I still get tickets? What?
 RB> You say Nancy is a sales person with John Hancock, and this is some
 RB> way of drumming up business? Oh.  Never mind.

Then there are the ones he posts (in, among other places,
soc.culture.celtic) that are designed to appear as followups to another
article and tout some RAID system he no doubt gets kickbacks for.
--
Christopher K. Davis      | ``Usenet seems to run much like the Kif (or,
<ckd@eff.org>   EFF #14   |   for the TV generation, Klingon) high command.
System Administrator, EFF |   Whoever takes action and can be heard wins.''
+1 617 864 0665  [CKD1]   |   --Peter da Silva <peter@ferranti.com>
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: ljr@mitre.org (Luke J. Rheaume)
Subject: Re: New England Telephone: Reduce your monthly phone bill
Followup-To: ne.general
Organization: The MITRE Corporation - Bedford, MA
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:23:14 GMT

In article <BOAZ.93Jan6203838@concerto.lcs.mit.edu>,
boaz@concerto.lcs.mit.edu (Boaz Ben-Zvi) wrote:
> 
> 
> Following N.E.T's announcement of raising some of their rates on 1/15,
> ...

Don't forget, "The Telephone Company (used to be 'Ma Bell') has you by the
Calls!"


Standard Disclaimer Applies:  These are my opinions, not my employers.

Luke J. Rheaume, Member of the Technical Staff
The MITRE Corporation, Strategic Surveillance Systems
202 Burlington Rd., MS M322
Bedford, MA 01730-1420
From: heiser@acs.bu.edu (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:45:19 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1993Jan6.012842.22440@osf.org> kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup) writes:
>driver needs to take the damn bus. The reason you have such tieups like
>the Central Artery embarrassment is because of this passive, lemming
>mentality, and driver incompetence.

Yeah.  It's funny, though, how once the tie-up is created, people turn
into agressive MONSTERS.  One of these days I'm going to buy one of those
big red-neck pickups with huge tires the height of a car, and just refuse
to let all those jerks wedge their way in front of me :-) :-) ;_)
From: ffoogg@macmailgw.dfci.harvard.edu (Paco Ojeda)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: New Cable Channels in Boston
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:23:13 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation
NNTP-Posting-Host: macdrf_43.dfci.harvard.edu
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X-XXDate: Fri, 8 Jan 93 14:25:55 GMT

Has everybody (in the Boston area) noticed how Cablevision of Boston
started carrying the Sci-Fi, Commedy and Cartoon channels as of January
1st? The only problem is that neither Cablevision (through their monthly
magazine or through their televised ever-so-slow scrolling schedules) nor
TV Guide have schedules for these channels.

Bummer...

Paco

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Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Monday, 4 Jan 1993 13:15:56 EST
From: chuck <IO10093@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: re:ne.personals?

Sounds like a great idea which is long over due.  You've got my vote.
Though I've never posted in any e-personals but this could bring things
closer to home.

CDH
Orono, ME
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: Packies, was Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: ne
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:59:36 GMT

In article <106136@bu.edu> heiser@acs.bu.edu (William Heiser) writes:
>But Adam, what *supermarkets* ever sell liquor in Massachusetts? :-)
>Maybe you're thinking of New Hampshire?  :-)

That Star Market mega-complex in Watertown does, also. Great to buy groceries
and beer at the same time, and pay w/your ATM card.

It looks like some stupidity reigns here in the Bay State, surprise! Like in
Illinois, my underage cashier could not ring in my liquor sale, which meant
she could not swipe it through the scanner. We had to call in a >21 year
old cashier to perform that one operation. I couldn't even do it. Stupid.

	-Kenny

-- 
Kenny Crudup, Contractor, OSF DCE QA
OSF, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142	+1 617 621 7306
kenny@osf.osf.org			OSF has nothing to do with this post.
	  Religion: The longest-running gag ever played on Mankind.
From: heiser@acs.bu.edu (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: New England Telephone: Reduce your monthly phone bill
Date: 8 Jan 93 00:37:57 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <SPIKE.93Jan7165709@world.std.com> spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes:
>	Disclaimer:  I think NET is the one of the biggest bunches of
>bozos ever collected.  But you can blame them for everything.

Speaking of the phone company ... anyone know where I can get a tape
of the comedian (her name escapes me right now) that did the phone
company skits...

  ... "we don't care.  We don't have to, we're the phone company!"

  ... "are you calling from the number from which I'm speaking?"
 and so on...




Newsgroups: ne.general
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Passing Lane? (was: flavors of MA cops
Organization: The World
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:04:08 GMT


The midwest runs from 128 to roughly the crest of the Berkeley hills.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

Software Tool & Die    | bzs@world.std.com          | uunet!world!bzs
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202        | Login: 617-739-WRLD
From: rep@thor.genrad.com (Pete Peterson)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Home Alarm Systems
Date: 5 Jan 1993 07:24:55 -0500
Organization: GenRad, Inc.
Distribution: ne
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.genrad.com

 In article <C0CF6y.1q0@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
 >fmrco!msommer@uunet.uu.net (Mark Sommer) writes:
 >>We bought a house this summer equipped with an alarm system from
 >>American Alarm.
 >>Any advice from alarm owners out there?
 >
 >Dump your alarm "service" company and buy a telephone dialer if it's
 >not already part of your system.  Set it up to call you and/or someone
 >else who can be reached most of the time.  If need be, get a beeper;
 >beepers cost less than alarm service contracts.

It would seem that this only works if your phone service is through some
direct microwave link.  I can't understand how people manage to sell alarm
systems that rely on the use of standard telephone lines.  Would any
self-respecting burglar neglect to disconnect the phone lines before
entering the house?

	pete peterson
	rep@genrad.com
	(508)369-4400 x2478; Home: (508)256-5829 (Chelmsford, MA)
From: nin15b63@merrimack.edu (The Wolf)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: ne.singles? (was Re: ne.personals?)
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:30:12 GMT
Followup-To: ne.general
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA, USA

In article <1i46ltINN6jg@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU>, loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
> I don't have any objection to a ne.personals group, but personally I
> would be more likely to participate in a ne.singles group instead

Seconded.  Ne.singles makes more sense to me.
-----
 Andy Harrington                      | nin15b63@merrimack.edu
 Computer Geek                        | aharrington@ldbvax.lotus.com
 Merrimack College, North Andover, MA | I'm too sexy for this network.
From: jess@miracle.com (Jessica Thornburg)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Passing Lane? (was: flavors of MA cops
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 23:41:26 EDT
Organization: Miracle Computer Consultants

adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin) writes:
>In article <7581@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
>>
>>In Bostonese, "anyone born outside of Rt. 128".
>>
>
>I've also heard it used to describe anybody from  Westa Wuhstuh.
>
>
>-- 
>Adam Gaffin
>Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass.
>adamg@world.std.com
>Voice: (508) 626-3968. Fred the Middlesex News Computer: (508) 872-8461.

EEEEEK!!!!!  I've lived both east and west of Worcester, and I've never heard 
somebody refer to the locals like that!!!!

J.T.


The BORG are DEAD!!!!
Long live the Federation!!!
From: jc@bu-it.bu.edu (James Cameron)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Health Plan choices
Date: 12 Jan 93 05:24:53 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Information Technology


As I am starting a new fulltime job, it is time I look into what would
be best for me in terms of a health plan.  Basically, I have the Blue
Cross Blue Shield options, the Harvard Community Health Plan, and
Tufts.  

I live near the corner of Comm. Ave and Washington Street and work for
Boston University so location of clinic is going to play a part of
this decision, though not sure how big yet.  *8-)   Guess it depends
upon the distance.

Any suggestions, comments, or live chicken rituals you care to share?


James Cameron
Newsgroups: ne.general,ne.wanted
From: fsquared@eff.org (Fawn Fitter)
Subject: Re-Inking Printer Ribbons
Originator: fsquared@eff.org
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Distribution: ne
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:19:02 GMT

Anyone know of a place in the greater Boston area where I can get fabric
printer ribbons re-inked? It's more environmentally sound than tossing the
old one on my way to Staples for more, and I understand it's also cheaper
in the long run...

I know of a place in California and another in the Midwest that will do this,
but I'd rather not pay for postage to mail the ribbons back and forth. I'd
prefer a place downtown or in the Cambridge/Somerville area, but I'll 
gladly go out into the 'burbs if that's my only option.
From: jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Packies, was Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:21:26 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: AT&T

In article <RG.92Dec25185605@nymph.msel.unh.edu> rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) writes:
>
>...
>Also, why do you call liquor stores "Package Stores"?  Or "Packies", as the
>local yokels in Newburyport persist in calling them..
>...

Some liquor stores in Mass will actually have a sign saying
"Joe's Package Store" or whatever.  The idea is to distinguish
an establishment that sells liquor in a package (bottle, can)
from one that sells liquor by the glass (like a bar).  In some
states (and probably years ago in Mass), a bar can sell liquor
"to go".  This is strictly illegal in Mass, and I believe, all
of New England. 


-- 
     Jim Lacey  --  my own opinions    
     email:  att!cbnewsl!jlacey  or  jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com
     D'ou venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous?
From: heiser@acs.bu.edu (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Channel 56
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:50:46 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <C0FtzE.vA@tegra.com> vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail) writes:
>
>But I notice that newscasts on some channels are effectively MONO, so
>in surround mode only the center channel is used.  Some channels do

Why would you want NEWS to be in surround sound? :-)


It's really most effective on shows with lots of action.  The best
example of SS is on one of the Indiana Jones movies where there is
an airplane circling around overhead.  It sounds really neat.
Newsgroups: ne.general