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From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Need advice re: banks
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
	<1992Jul15.165832.25289@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com>
	<JM13.92Jul21114838@bermuda.gte.com>
Distribution: ne
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:03:22 GMT

Joseph> == Joseph D. Morrison <jm13@gte.com> 

 Joseph> There is a bank close to where I live called "NFS Savings" (in
 Joseph> southern NH). I was thinking of opening an account there; has
 Joseph> anyone heard anything good or bad about this bank?

Haven't heard anything about the bank, but I don't know if I'd trust
anything important to something called "NFS" :-)
--
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  point.  Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation
         to tolerate speech.'' --Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: abbott@priory.enet.dec.com (Robert Abbott)
Subject: Mexican neighborhoods in Boston area?
Organization: Software Performance Group
Distribution: na
Date: 24 JUL 92 13:34:30    


I am looking for information on the existence and
location of Mexican neighborhoods in the greater
Boston area. Note I am primarily interested in
Mexican, not Puerto Rican or other Latin culture
neighborhoods. 

I'd be interested in hearing general comments
on the vibrancy of Mexican culture in the 
Boston area, as well as opinions as to whether
or  not Boston is 'friendly' towards Mexican 
culture and people. (that's a can of worms)

Finally, would you recommend Boston as a place
to live for a Mexican friend who wishes to live
in a community with a strong Mexican presence?
Why or why not? If yes, then what neighborhoods
would you suggest?.

My ignorance is showing,

Robert

------------------------
Robert K. Abbott
abbott@tay1.dec.com
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: Mexican neighborhoods in Boston area?
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:31:34 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.173214.15544@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
abbott@priory.enet.dec.com (Robert Abbott) writes:
> I am looking for information on the existence and
> location of Mexican neighborhoods in the greater
> Boston area. Note I am primarily interested in
> Mexican, not Puerto Rican or other Latin culture
> neighborhoods. 

In article <l70n69INNl3r@news.bbn.com> rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) writes:
>Sorry, that's one ethnic group you're not going to find
>a lot of in Boston.

No part of Jamaica Plain is predominately Mexican? I'm surprised. I'd still
call the J.P. Chamber of Commerce, or something like that.

	-Kenny
-- 
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From: Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Electronic Matchmaker
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 00:27:50 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

New England women, having a problem finding a New England man?  I am 
about to launch a free electronic matching service on Usenet.
Unfortunately, more guys than gals have expressed an interest so far.
If you would like to see the fourth draft of my questionnaire so we
can alter it to also fit women's needs as well as men's, either send
me mail or look at the copy I posted in alt.personals.
 
This service is serious and I already have 161 men and 111 women
signed up so far.  The site of the service has already been selected
and programming has begun.
 
                                                           Eric Klien
From: dand@buscard.fidonet.org (Dan Davidson)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: driving in boston -- 
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 08:55:45 EDT
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r

 -=> Quoting Laurie Bechtler to All <=-

 LB> Ok, so maybe 8 months isn't long enough residency to really see
 LB> the true range of Boston driving.  But I don't really see that
 LB> it's so bad, either from traffic considerations or crazy drivers.

 LB> ...

 LB> I think Boston drivers cling to the driving reputation as a badge of 
 LB> honor that is no longer unique.  It is helpful once in a while though
 LB> when you need to do something "unusual" yourself and you know you can
 LB> get away with it because no one else will notice.

I drove in Boston for decades, and walked across Boston streets for
much longer.  Those who may "cling to the [Boston] driving reputation"
are building a *new* Boston reputation.

When almost all drivers in Boston were from "greater Boston", and
almost all pedestrians, too, the situation was different than now, and
may have been unique.  Drivers made eye contact with each other, and
with pedestrians, so there was less confusion.  Pedestrians crossed
the street *anywhere* in relative safety.  Though they still do it,
it's no longer relatively safe without an appointment.

                                                    -- Dan --


... THINK! or thwim.
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
                                                    
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb)
Subject: Re: banks
Reply-To: dlw@odi.com
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 15:27:56 GMT

In article <1992Jul14.172556.19466@kronos.com> richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun) writes:

   With all the computer technology and increased efficiency in which the
   banking industry has invested, one would expect that per-transaction fees
   would be less than they used to be.  Not so.

Costs (to the bank) being lower is one thing; fees being lower is
something else.

   We're living in a (quasi-)free enterprise system, and prices are set at levels
   no more and no less than what the market will bear.  Obviously, consumers
   are buying what the banks are dishing out.

I have heard it said that banks are keeping credit card interest rates
high, and fees high, because they just plain aren't doing well these
days.  A competitive price war can only go so low.  Presumably they're
all suffering due to their real-estate fun-and-games in the eighties.

Newsgroups: ne.general,ne.seminars,ne.nearnet.general
From: rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz)
Subject: First BB LISA meeting tonight!
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:41:51 GMT

{ Please forward this to anyone who you think might be interseted. }

			ANNOUNCING THE FIRST MEETING OF

				BACK BAY LISA
	      The New England Local System Administration Forum

	Back Bay LISA, or BB LISA for short, has been created to address
	the needs of the local New England community of System
	Administrators.

	The group is planning regular, monthly meetings which will consist
	of a speaker, product demonstrations, general discussions, or
	other activities of widespread interest.  If there is something
	you would like to talk about, or hear discussed, please let us
	know!

	There are currently no dues, and everyone is invited to come
	along.  The group will meet on the last Wednesday of every month,
	except December, at a location in the Greater Boston area.

	The first meeting is:

	Date:		Wednesday, July 29, 1992
	Time:		7:00pm
	At:		Bolt Beranek & Newman (BBN)
			150 Cambridge Park Drive
			(go down the street from Alewife T station,
			meet inside at the 150 Cambridge Park Cafe,
			on the 1st floor)

	We will start with a brief introduction and overview of the
	group.  We also want to hear your ideas on where we should be
	going.

	After that, we will have Back Bay Lisa's first speaker:

	Topic:		Network and User Administration at MIT Athena
	Speaker:	Tom Coppeto
			MIT Network Operations Group

	Tom works in the group resonsible for the oepration of the MIT
	campus network and network management development.  Most of the
	4,000 hosts speak IP, with roughly a third running the "Athena
	environment."  There are also a growing number of AppleTalk
	hosts.

	Tom will talk about some aspects of the MIT network and system
	management, including the SNMP-based infrastructure and "network
	operations center". He will also talk about MOIRA, the database
	system used to centrally manage many of the systems and the 12,000
	Athena users.

	**  Please redistribute this message to anyone that you **
	**  think might be interested.				**

	There is a mailing list, `bblisa@inset.com', which will carry
	announcements and discussions.  To join the mailing list,
	send email to `bblisa-request@inset.com'.

	Future meeting topics will include:

	    - Analyzing System Administration Costs
	    - INN and Netnews Administration
	    - All about Obfuscated C
	    - Bibliographic Tools
	    - Project Athena
	    - What is World.STD.COM?
	    - Managing an Archive Server
	    - Running a Thinking Machine
	    - WAIS: Wide Area Archive Servers
	    - EFF: The Electronic Fronteer Foundation
	    - Sendmail: the Future
	    - Security from the FBI's Perspective
	    - Why and How to Join the Internet

	For more information, join the mailing list, or contact:

		JR Oldroyd	jr@inset.com		(617) 890 4930
		Peg Schafer	peg@bbn.com		(617) 873 2626
		Rich $alz	rsalz@osf.org		(617) 621 7253
		Lisa Bloch	lab@sug.org		(617) 232 0514
		Tom Heft	heft@husc.harvard.edu	(617) 495 1273

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From: rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Date: 27 Jul 1992 19:18:59 GMT
Organization: Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc.
Distribution: ne
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcsun25.bbn.com

In article <1992Jul27.165021.26470@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey) writes:
|> While we're at it, does anyone know where the Green Line "A" branch
|> went?  (We now have B/C/D/E branches.)  If there was an "A"
|> branch, when was it discontinued?

The "A" branch went to Watertown Square.  It diverged from the "B" line
at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Brighton Avenue.  From there,
it went down Brighton Avenue to Union Square in Allston;  Cambridge
Street to Brighton Center;  Washington Street to Newton Corner;  and
Galen Street to Watertown.

Service on this branch ended in 1969.  I really don't know why.
The tracks are still there.  Maybe someone else knows more?

-- 
Ron Newman		rnewman@bbn.com
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com>
Subject: Re: What can I do with these old magazines?
Reply-To: Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com>
Organization: Proponent
Distribution: ne
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:20:02 GMT

In article <l6lpupINNdoa@news.bbn.com> rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) writes:
> Among the things I don't want to move are many, many back issues
> of various magazines.    It seems a waste to toss them into
> the trash or the recycling bin, so I'm looking for 
>    (a) anyone who wants some of the magazines
>    (b) any ideas what I should do with them

Why not donate all of them to a library?

-- 
# Monty Solomon / PO Box 2486 / Framingham, MA  01701-0405
# monty%roscom@think.com
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: ferran@rosencrantz.osf.org (Lisa Ferrante)
Subject: Music for a Summer Evening
Summary: Sunday, August 9
Keywords: Barber, Monteverdi, Vaughan Williams...
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: ne
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:48:00 GMT


*********************************************************************
		The Bow and Arrow Singers
			Elizabeth Norton, conducting
*********************************************************************

			*proudly present*

		Music for a Summer Evening

		Works by: Barber, Monteverdi, Victoria, Billings,
			  Vaughan Williams


		Place: St. Paul's Church
		       Fifteen St/Paul Street, Brookline
		Time: Sunday, August 9, 7:30 PM
		Admission: $6, $3 seniors and students,
		       payable at the door
		Further Information: call 449-4512, or contact
			Lisa Ferrante (621-8983, ferran@osf.org)


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**  (617) 621-8983
**  ferran@osf.org




Newsgroups: ne.general
From: heiser@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Need advice re: banks
Organization: Equipment Division, Raytheon Company
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 16:34:34 GMT

In article <JM13.92Jul21114838@bermuda.gte.com> jm13@gte.com (Joseph D. Morrison) writes:
>There is a bank close to where I live called "NFS Savings" (in
>southern NH). I was thinking of opening an account there; has anyone
>heard anything good or bad about this bank?

Just make sure they are reliable so you don't get any "NFS timeouts" or
"NFS Server not responding" when you try to withdraw your funds.  :-) :-)

(sorry)

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From: wmurphy@cs.umb.edu (William E. Murphy)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:46:55 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston


whim, one would think.

By the way, the tracks don't cross on the cambridge side of the river. 
They are side by side at all times regardless of elevation.

I would like to know why porter had to be set so deep...

Bill
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From: lmadden@bbn.com (Leslie Madden)
Newsgroups: bbn.bboard,ne.general
Subject: wedding dresses
Date: 22 Jul 1992 20:24:05 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: lmadden@spcink.bbn.com (Leslie Madden)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com


	i have started the search for my wedding dress. i have heard that there
	are places that sell "once-worn gowns". can anyone recommend such a place?
	also, i am interested in dresses that are on the unusual side. any
        pointers in that area would be great.


				thanks in advance,

   				   leslie
From: kvk@questor.sw.stratus.com (Ken Koellner)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Paying Sales Tax on New Car at the Registry
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:23:36 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering

Does anyone know what for of payment the RMV will take for sales tax
when registering a new car?  Will they take a first-party personal
check or just cash/cashiers-check?

email please before 92/08/01.

-- 
An amazing insight may have paid you a fleeting visit and then retreated.
Resist the temptation to chase it; it is faster than you are.  Value your
glimpse of it, and invite it to return some other time.      -John Bitmap
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Photo Developing
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:11:53 GMT

Several people have asked for the Mystic Color info, so here it is:

Mystic Color 35mm System
Mason's Island Road
PO Box 144
Mystic, CT   06355-9987

Customer Service:  800-367-6061


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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: swist@doodly.mcc.dec.com (Jim Swist)
Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Reply-To: swist@took.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:10:35 GMT

What the tracks do at Harvard have nothing to do with Porter.  The
tunnels are side-by-side between the two stations so the decision
to raise/lower one side was based on considerations local to the
individual station.

Now what *I* don't understand is why that sharp turn kludge was created
at Harvard when the line was extended.  This causes all trains to run at
dead slow for several minutes chewing up a lot of time,  not to mention
that awful squealing of the wheels.   I realize the old part of the line
is very shallow in Cambridge (cut-and-cover vs a tunnel) and a straighter
extension would have gone through the basement of the Coop, but they
sure tunneled deep later on - couldn't they have started the deep part
earlier?
From: jwg1@gte.com (James W. Gish)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Anyone know a cheap, GOOD, place to get photos developed?
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:53:37 GMT
	<SPIKE.92Jul21145254@coke.std.com>
Followup-To: ne.general
Distribution: ne
Organization: GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham, MA
In-reply-to: spike@coke.std.com's message of 21 Jul 92 19:52:54 GMT


Mystic Color Labs
Mason's Island Road
P.O. Box 144
Mystic, CT 06355-9987

Customer Service: 1-800-367-6061 

Just call customer service and they'll send you the mailing envelopes.

--
Jim Gish (jgish@gte.com)
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
GTE Laboratories Inc.
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Originator: rita@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:08:45 GMT

In article <Bs4n4K.C8K@world.std.com> adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin) writes:

>But there's another issue, which the Sierra Club has started looking at. 
>Does it really make sense to spend $250 million to restore commuter rail
>to the South Shore, or even $50 million to extend it to Worcester when so
>few people will use it?  Why not use that money for improving mass transit
>where people would actually take advantage of it?

	What is this assertion based on?  The South Shore desperately
needs the commuter rail.  Braintree's garage is full every weekday
morning at about 8:15 am (I've never seen Alewife more than 3/4's full
during the week).  




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Newsgroups: ne.general,rec.photo
From: fag2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Farul A Ghazali)
Subject: Re: Anyone know a cheap, GOOD, place to get photos developed?
Reply-To: fag2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Farul A Ghazali)
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 05:23:25 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.165155.11936@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com> heiser@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser) writes:
>In article <1992Jul20.181836.5859@PA.dec.com> rbhank@wsl.dec.com (Ron Bhanukitsiri) writes:
>>
>>I've been sending my film to Mystic Color Labs recently and have been
>>very happy with them.  They're also rated very highly by Consumer's Report.
>
>Yes, and I've found them to be very fast.
>


I'd appreciate it if someone could email me Mystic's phone number or 
address. 

farul.
Columbia University.

Newsgroups: ne.general,ne.wanted
From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: Ford Mechanic in Boston
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:36:04 GMT

Usenet slamming rules be damned-

In article <14kdadINN3g7@early-bird.think.com> shaig@Think.COM
(Shai Guday) writes:

If you are ever in the Neponset Circle area of Boston, and your Ford/Lincoln/
Mercury breaks down, DO NOT take it to Neponset L/M. You will be sorry. I
had them do a valve job and exhaust manifold replacement since I was starting
a new contract and didn't have time to do it myself, and they royally screwed
my car. Oh, they did the jobs, somewhat, but they didn't mill my head, and
sheared off a couple of manifold bolts. As an added bonus, they left several
water clamps loose, left my timing *way* off, didn't change my timing belt
despite my word that it was to be done, broke my distributor, and oh! forgot
to install my turbo gasket.

By the time me 'n AMEX got thru, the bill was down 80%.

>Also, if anyone also knows where I can pick up a car manual for this model
>in Boston, please let me know.

Try Lappens for their Haynes manuals. Or you can try Helm in Detroit. They
have factory manuals. Don't buy Chilton's. Too many years/styles in one
book.

	-Kenny

-- 
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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: lost@athena.mit.edu (Robbie Smith)
Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:43:21 GMT

|> 
|> Now what *I* don't understand is why that sharp turn kludge was created
|> at Harvard when the line was extended.  This causes all trains to run at
|> dead slow for several minutes chewing up a lot of time,  not to mention
|> that awful squealing of the wheels.   I realize the old part of the line
|> is very shallow in Cambridge (cut-and-cover vs a tunnel) and a straighter
|> extension would have gone through the basement of the Coop, but they
|> sure tunneled deep later on - couldn't they have started the deep part
|> earlier?     

The story I have heard (and maybe even believe) is that Widener (spelling?), when
s/he left the money to found the library, had it instituted that there could be
no structural changes to the library building.  Any curvature of the red line
would have take the tracks closer to the foundation of the building, which would
have been considered a structural change.

-- 
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From: saldort@jade.tufts.edu (Scott M. Aldort)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: looking for TV repair place in Boston
Date: 23 Jul 92 00:21:47 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

I posted this before, but I'm assuming that since there were no replies
I set the distribution wrong.

I'm looking for a place to get a TV repaired, as it got fried under an
open window during a recent surprise storm. (It's one of those that
stays warm even when it's off.) Most importantly, the place should be
cheap and reliable.  Time is not much of a concern. I prefer the
location to be in Back Bay/South End, but a quick drive to the suburbs
is OK.

Thanks in advance.

Scott
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: heiser@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Am I NUTS or What??
Organization: Equipment Division, Raytheon Company
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 17:01:10 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.123552.28002@cbnews.cb.att.com> milo@cbnews.cb.att.com (guy.f.klose) writes:
>Y'ever noticed that the drivers most likely to give "driving lessons" with
>their horns or their middle fingers always seem to have really beat-up cars?

Nahh!  They're usually driving BMW's, Audi's, or Cherokees!


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Xref: sparky ne.general:2091 rec.mag:136
From: richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: bbn.bboard,ne.general,mit.bboard,rec.mag
Subject: Re: What can I do with these old magazines?
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:18:56 GMT
Organization: Kronos Inc. / Waltham, MA
Disclaimer: This posting is a personal opinion and not that of Kronos Inc.

Another suggestion for those with old magazines and books, inspired by
my visit to last week's meeting of the semi-defunct _Gay Community News_:

	- Give them to a local jail or prison

GCN has for years been providing materials (their own publication plus
contributions like dictionaries) to prisons, in the interest of keeping
people there in touch with the outside world and to promote literacy.

-rich
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