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From: sth@slipknot.mit.edu (Scott Hannahs)
Subject: Re: New England Telephone: Reduce your monthly phone bill
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Distribution: ne
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 20:32:34 GMT

To continue this thread,  I have an interesting story about ongoing
misbilling by NET which is probably widespread.

boaz@concerto.lcs.mit.edu (Boaz Ben-Zvi) writes:
>Following N.E.T's announcement of raising some of their rates on 1/15,
>I begun wondering how one may offset some of the hike.
>  Unlimited service costs more than 6-8 bucks above the measured one,
>and gives unlimited service to your local area (your town plus the towns
>surrounding it), which would otherwise cost $.016/minute (plus 1 cent
>per call). I.e., it'll take more than (approx.) 6-8 hours of monthly
>phone use (in the local area!) to make Unlimited service a good choice.
>(Well, some modem-owners use that much in a single day :-)

I saw this about a year ago and after carefully checking that my modem
is to a "free" call signed up for unlimited local which was about $6/mo
cheaper.  However after a month or so, I was getting large bills that
could only be from the modem calls.  I have spent the last year
convincing NET that their software is in error and that I was being
billed for these "free" calls.  Most of the time I have been ignored or
told that I do not know what is going on in my own household.  Two weeks
ago after 50 calls and a formal complaint to the DPU I got someone who
admitted that there was a problem and that the table was incorrect for
our phone.  However he claimed that it was only our phone and nobody
else's.  I do not see how the billing software could only single out our
phone.  I have not gotten a satisfactory reply to that question from NET
and the complaint to the DPU has not been withdrawn.  Since the bill for
unlimited local is not itemized to what numbers are called, it is
difficult to prove or disprove billing mistakes.  I am still asking for
an outside review of the billing system but don't know if I have the
political clout to get it since they have admitted the one mistake and
are stonewalling that there may be others.  If anyone else has had a
similar problem, I would certainly like to hear about it.

Anybody know a good "sleazy" lawyer?  This could be an interesting class
action.  Fortunately I consider it more of a hobby than an annoyance,
also an excuse to withold payment to NET since they owe me big time.

>  The announcement said "New England Telephone does not receive any
>additional revenue as a result of the new rates". Sure, they spend 
>the money we pay them on TV commercials :-)
But they can always just bill you incorrectly and make up the
difference....  :-)  The claim is that you get a cheaper rate since they
don't have to itemize your calls, and then they can charge you for
whatever calls they feel like.  YIKES!

Scott Hannahs, F. Bitter National Magnet Lab, MIT NW14-1313, 253-5570
sth@slipknot.mit.edu
From: msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Packies, was Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:24:38 GMT
	<106136@bu.edu> <1993Jan5.135936.5046@osf.org> <C0FuFE.w0@tegra.com>
Distribution: ne
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

>but do any of them sell *liquor* ???

Well, the Star Market in the Fenway has a full liqour store inside.
It's a separate room, with its own cashier and rent-a-cop, but it is
fully inside the Star.

Other than that, I can't recall any non-liquor-store stores selling
hard alchohol.  Just beer and wine.

							Michael

---
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From: jkwashna@pearl.tufts.edu (J.J. Kwashnak)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: MBTA Bus schedules
Date: 12 Jan 93 21:30:00 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <C0pIFq.Csz@world.std.com>, lains@world.std.com (Layne L Ainsworth) writes...
> 
>Does anyone know if a book of bus schedules exists?
> [stuff deleted] 
>Maybe a private publisher prints such a book?
> 
>Thanks-
> 
>Layne
>

Try _Car Free in Boston_.  Many newsstands carry it along with bookstores.
It doesn't have timetable per say, but it does give the busses and how often
they run, so you are not waiting for a bus that only comes once every hour
and a half.
From: ed@kronos.com (Ed Baker)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:12:09 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Kronos Inc. / Waltham, MA
Disclaimer: This posting is a personal opinion and not that of Kronos Inc.

I had my wife's Hyundai up to 100 MPH once.  Also, she got a ticket for
going 82 on 495 when her radar detector was broken.  I was going 87 on
295 in NJ when the radar detector went crazy.  I applied brakes, but then
let up and got a ticket for 66; if I had only continued to brake...  The
ticket never got reported to MA, though.  Also, if you're driving through
Lexington, Lincoln, or Concord the radar detector is invaluable.
From: donato@applix.com (Donato Miranda [ext 241])
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Packies, was Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:33:01 GMT
Organization: Applix, Inc., Westboro, MA

In article <07Jan93233611@miracle.com> jess@miracle.com (Jessica Thornburg) writes:
>
>Ummm, I was on the Pike a couple months ago, driving out to Amherst, so I was
>on the pike going westbound, past exit 10, and I know that the speed limit going
>WESTBOUND changes back to 55 after the I-84 interchange, which is exit 10 I
>believe.  Now if they've changed it very recently, I don't know.  But back 
>towards the end of November it was 55mph after the road went from 3 to 2 lanes
>after exit 10.
>
>J.T.

nope.  your eyes have deceived you.  going WESTBOUND, the speed limit
changes to 65 after exit 10 (which is the 290, worcester, auburn exit).
it continues to be 65 until exit 7 (ludlow exit), where it then becomes
55 for the 3 springfield/chicopee exits.  at exit 3, it is 65 again.
my exit is the palmer/amherst exit (8), and i've driven the pike MANY
times.  it has been this way ever since the speed limits were changed.
(oh yeah, the I-84 jct is exit 9, and the only thing that changes there
are the 3 lanes).  so, from exits 1-3 the speed limit is 65, from 4-6 it's
55, from 7-10 it's 65, from 10-boston it's 55.
your  friendly mass pike exit number expert,


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Newsgroups: ne.general,ne.motss
From: drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R. Guilderson)
Subject: RFD: A singles discussion group for the ne distribution
Organization: Zenith Data Systems / Bull, Billerica MA USA
Distribution: ne
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:40:53

The discussion seems to have died.  Maybe I shot myself in the foot by
introducing the idea of two groups.  I would rather there be one group
for discussion *and* personal ads rather than no group at all.  In an
attempt to get things going again I make my proposal clear and if
there isn't too much opposition, I'll put it up for an informal vote.
I'm hoping that at the very least we can get ne.singles created.

ne.singles (unmoderated)

Charter: For discussion and announcement of singles related activities
and experiences in the New England area.

ne.personals (unmoderated)

Charter: For the posting of personal advertizements.  Any discussion
arising from posts in this group should be shifted to ne.singles.
From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Allergist Recommendations
Date: 4 Jan 1993 18:47:23 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: levin@powell.bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <1993Jan4.175616.25604@aoa.aoa.utc.com> carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft) writes:
|In article <lis.725901078@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba) writes:
|>Can anyone in the area recommend a good allergist in the Boston area?
|>Preferably someone whose solution to my sniffles won't involve getting
|>rid of my cat.
|x
|This should really be in sci.med, but:
|SOrry, you don't get to choose a solution to science based on
|your personal preferences.  Either you are allergic to cats or
|you aren't. Picking a MD won't change facts.
|Feynmann put it somewhat better during the Challenger hearings.  I
|paraphrase: one cannot select an answer based on public relations,
|because Nature will not be fooled.

Well, Carl, I think you have characterized her request a bit unfairly.
No respectable MD will tell her that she isn't allergic to her cat if
she is.  But there may be some who will tell her that the only
solution is to get rid of the animal and others who will be willing to
work harder with her to help her get along with it.  In other words
Elisabeth is rejecting out of hand a certain solution, not a certain
diagnosis.
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Drinking and the MBTA was Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
	<BZS.92Dec15212827@world.std.com>
	<1992Dec17.153135.8027@dunsel.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:09:53 GMT

DB> == Dave Borden <borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu>

 DB> What this city should do is allow private bus lines to run at night,
 DB> and in my opinion, in the daytime as well.  Why should the MBTA have a
 DB> monopoly on mass transit?

Do they?  I seem to remember a Harvard-Longwood bus going up and down Mass
Ave a few times ("MetroBus"?)  Does that still run?  Who runs it?  It
wasn't a T bus, that's for sure.
--
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>
From: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: The Nazi regime and Martin Niemoeller
Date: 12 Jan 1993 17:13:57 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Reply-To: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: ansible.pubs.stratus.com

George J. Carrette writes
>Any willful editing or supression of part of this quote puts one in 
>*very* bad company indeed. Does it not?

I think there may be additional parts to this, which
different people may have surpressed at different times.
I don't think you necessarily need to read any "evil intent"
in this case, but I'll go check it again.

*  In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak *
*  because I wasn't a Communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I *
*  didn't speak because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade *
* unionists, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a trade unionist... *
*Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up.*
*  Rev. Martin Niemoeller     [Why to March on Washington in April]  *
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: rich@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Rich Snow)
Subject: Re: Home Alarm Systems
Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:10:55 GMT


In article  (Pete Peterson) writes:
> >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?
>
I've been robbed several times in various houses, and the burgular 
(often neighborhood kids) has never touched the phone lines. 
I guess cop movies don't always get it right...
Also, it would only be doable (without unusual effort) 
for robbing a single family home.

My personal strategy is to not own anything worth stealing.

-Rich Snow

-- 
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*  (617)864-0201	54 Cambridgepark Dr., Cambridge, MA.	    
*  rich@aoa.utc.com 	MORE IS BETTER, less_is_more.
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft)
Subject: Re: Allergist Recommendations
Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:56:16 GMT

In article <lis.725901078@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba) writes:
>Can anyone in the area recommend a good allergist in the Boston area?
>Preferably someone whose solution to my sniffles won't involve getting
>rid of my cat.
x
This should really be in sci.med, but:
SOrry, you don't get to choose a solution to science based on
your personal preferences.  Either you are allergic to cats or
you aren't. Picking a MD won't change facts.
Feynmann put it somewhat better during the Challenger hearings.  I
paraphrase: one cannot select an answer based on public relations,
because Nature will not be fooled.


-- 
Carl Witthoft @ Adaptive Optics Associates
aoa!carl@bbn.com  carl@aoa.utc.com
54 CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge,MA 02140 617-864-0201
"88 is 55 if you want to fly."
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: ede@porter.osf.org (Ted Ede)
Subject: Re: Home Alarm Systems
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:56:08 GMT

In article <SPIKE.93Jan5195810@world.std.com> spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes:
>	They could always have a analog lease line and have the alarm
>box send a constant tone over it.  If the line was cut they'd know it.

That's exactly how they work.  Just lease a dry circuit from the phone
company. I have a friend that installs home alarms, and that's the
setup he recommends.

  Ted Ede -- ted@world.std.com -- on contract at the Open Software Foundation
     -- All views expressed are mine unless explicitly stated otherwise --
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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: lenivch@maclaurin.mit.edu (Witold Biedrzycki)
Subject: Re: New England Telephone: Reduce your monthly phone bill
Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
Distribution: ne
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 21:52:19 GMT



Yes, you can use a touch-tone phone on a non-touch-tone line.

Witold
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: rhl@valhalla.mitre.org (Roger Lincoln)
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:37:57 GMT


Having lived in both Western and Eastern Mass I was pleasantly
surprised to find when I moved to Boston that the cops out here are
much more lenient with speeders in general.  Is it just my imagination
or is the concentration of Staties much higher in Western Mass?  Since
there are only two real highways out there, I-90 and I-91, you really
have to be careful.  I was, admittedly, very close to suspension when
driving those highways every day to work (my insurance record is a
shambles), but after three years living out here, and driving *worse*
(ie faster, like everyone else) my record is clearing up.

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
a cop around, just as long as the other hundreds of cars are also
speeding along with me.  I find, in general (at least on the major
highways out here) the Staties are conscientious about enforcing the
speed limit for the sake of "public safety" and only pull over those
speeders that really stand out from the norm.  However, I've also
noticed a higher disregard for public safety in the way Staties drive
in Eastern Mass.

I hope I don't sound *too* naive.

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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: Channel 68
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:57:14 GMT

In article <C0GJqK.1D4@tegra.com> vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail) writes:

>Cable companies pick up the "air" channels the same way you do: off
>the air with an antenna.  No broadcast, no cable.  There is no magic
>wire from each broadcast station to each town's cable company.

Are you sure about this? I really, really doubt it. I'm very sure there are
local microwave links. Look at the quality of 'BZ in, Worcester, for example.

	-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: djg@phoenix.genrad.com (Deborah J. Graham)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Channel 68
Date: 6 Jan 1993 08:37:38 -0500
Organization: GenRad, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: phoenix.genrad.com

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?

Channel 68, according to the Boston Herald of yesterday (1-5-93), is
off the air for an undetermined amount of time. They had another fire.
(Don't ask, I don't remember much.)

So, it's not your set.

deb
(djg@genrad.com)
From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops
Date: 6 Jan 1993 14:03:38 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: levin@powell.bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <SPIKE.93Jan5213440@world.std.com> spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes:
|	I came up with a good first pass at cleaning the Mass drivers
|gene pool this morning.  Confiscate the cars of folks who don't know
|enough to turn their head lights on on a dark rainy day, like this
|morning.  The people you have left after this are a least aware that
|other cars have drivers too.

Heh.  You'll get another 25% off the roads temporarily too -- the ones
who forgot their lights were on when they got to work and have to wait
for the AAA to come and jumpstart them in the evening.

	/J (who should know, it happens to him ~ once/yr :-( )
=
Nets: levin@bbn.com  |  "Earn more sessions by sleeving."
pots: (617)873-3463  |
              N1MNF  |                               -- Roxanne Kowalski
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: gaf@alpha.aosg.gsf.dec.com (Gerald Feldman)
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops
Reply-To: gaf@aosg.gsf.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:31:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.034106.22044@netcom.com>, allyn@netcom.com (allyn) writes:
|> Speaking of the Central Artery and the Southeast Expressway, I am curious
|> about something.
|> 
|> Going northbound in the South Station Tunnel, I notice an exit about 1/4 mile
|> before the tunnel ends. It is on the right hand side.
|> 
|> That exit has been closed and barricaded for the last several years. At
|> least 8 to 10. 
|> 
|> Why in the world did they bother to make this exit from a tunnel and then
|> never use it? Sheer stupidity?
|> 
|> Mark

-- 
The way highways are built in Mass:
1. Highway is planned (sometimes) : Year 1.
2. The request for federal highway funds takes about 10 years.
3. After approval, various local entities file legislation, lawsuits,
etc.
4. 5 - 10 years later highway construction on the 20 year old plan is 
started.
5. During constuction changes are forced because the builder find that
conditions have changed. (eg. Cars have replaced horses).
6. The highway, complete with dead end exits is completed.

However, in Louisiana, then governor Jimmy (You are My Sunshine) Davis
built a bridge accross the Mississippi (The sunshine Bridge) which went
nowhere.
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From: zippy@cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Packies, was Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
Date: 5 Jan 93 04:55:56 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Brandeis University

heiser@acs.bu.edu (William Heiser) writes:

>But Adam, what *supermarkets* ever sell liquor in Massachusetts? :-)
>Maybe you're thinking of New Hampshire?  :-)

Stah Mahket in Newton, the one over the Pike, sells alcohol.

--Pat
From: kaz@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Karen Fegley)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: This is a test -- please ignore
Date: 5 Jan 1993 21:39:16 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: pogo.pubs.stratus.com

This is a test -- please ignore -- I am having a weird
problem where I can post to some newsgroups but not others.
So using a test directory does not tell me if the problem
is fixed.

Karen Fegley
Stratus Computer, Inc.
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: grady@world.std.com (Dick Grady)
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:20:27 GMT

In article <SPIKE.93Jan6203456@world.std.com> spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes:
>	In Massachusetts you can only pass on the right on "divided
>highways".  If I recall correctly from driver's ed 10 years ago,
>passing on the right was/is not legal in Rhode Island.

It's not legal in New Hampshire, either.  Back when MA legalized
right-hand passing, NH put up signs at their borders on expressways
saying to pass only on the left.  (I don't think that the signs are still
there.)
-- 
Dick Grady           Salem, NH,  USA            grady@world.std.com
So many newsgroups, so little time!
From: allyn@netcom.com (allyn)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops
Date: 11 Jan 93 03:41:06 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

Speaking of the Central Artery and the Southeast Expressway, I am curious
about something.

Going northbound in the South Station Tunnel, I notice an exit about 1/4 mile
before the tunnel ends. It is on the right hand side.

That exit has been closed and barricaded for the last several years. At
least 8 to 10. 

Why in the world did they bother to make this exit from a tunnel and then
never use it? Sheer stupidity?

Mark
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Subject: Re: ne.singles && ne.personals.ads
Followup-To: ne.general
Organization: Software Tool & Die
	<DRG.93Jan4122445@candidus.ma30.bull.com> <106114@bu.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:02:35 GMT

In article <106114@bu.edu> sklarew@bass.bu.edu (daniel sklarew) writes:
<ne.singles : for the singles scene in ne
<ne.personals.ads: for those ISO-types out there
<While the gist seems similar, I think that each appeals to a different
<audience, thus confirming our need for both...

	I don't think the likely level of traffic warrants two groups.
I suggest creating ne.singles and if it becomes overrun with personal
ads then think about ne.personals or ne.personals-ads
(ne.personals.ads is a bad name unless you are going to have a bunch
of ne.personals.* groups).

	Since the have been no objections to the idea of the group I
will set it up as soon as an agreement on the name is reached.

->Spike
From: yan-dicky@cs.yale.edu (Dicky Yan)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: ne.personals/ne.singles
Date: 4 Jan 1993 01:16:03 -0500
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Distribution: ne
NNTP-Posting-Host: dolphin.zoo.cs.yale.edu
Summary: I voet Yes.

I vote yes. I won't mind if you include New York City since they have
a large polulation and a lot of people working in the city lives in
Stamford, CT. 

Dicky.