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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 16:57:43 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.135956.28009@osf.org> kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup) writes:
>>...and some guy in an almost-new Audi didn't care for the way I zoomed past
>>him.  One whole side of his car had been scraped in an accident.  I wondered
>>why he felt compelled to give me "driving lessons" when he obviously had
>>been in more accidents than I had.

It amazes me to see the number of Wana-be Driving Instructors on the road
these days!  Even worse, (and watch out for these) are the people with so
little of a life that they go around writing letters to the registry
to complain about other drivers!  Get a Life!



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From: murph@buscard.fidonet.org (Brian Murphy)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Internet News Access
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 09:25:48 EDT
Organization: The Business Card (BBS), Lawrence, MA - Data: 508-682-5329

smith@glinda.ctron.com writes:

> Can anyone tell me the best way to get access to net news via a modem from
> a home in Billerica? I have a friend who wants very much to get on internet,
> but all he has to work with is a PC and a modem.  Can he get news from
> ULowell?  Or is there a public access system within a local phone call?

My system in Lawrence is not a local call to Billerica but you never know 
when knowing that he can get InterNet access somewhere will be handy.  
Your friend is welcome to call here.

                                 - - - Murph

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From: mt@space.mit.edu (Mary Terhune)
Subject: Re: CAR BUYING ADVICE
Originator: mt@gefera
Reply-To: mt@space.mit.edu
Organization: MIT Center for Space Research
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:23:05 GMT

THINKING ABOUT BUYING A 92 TOYOTA TERCEL:

4 speed standard...

anyone have advice about which dealer
to use? i've been told that i'd get a
better price without a trade in...the
trade in is a 1984 buick skylark with
74,000 miles on it....any idea what
the blue book is on it? it has A/C
and is an automatic...

what kind of price can i expect
to pay for the toyota tercel...
want 2 door because i think it's
cheaper....

thanks....save me from the 
car dealers!

mary
mt@space.mit.edu
From: borden@cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Seeking Advice on Dealing With an Insurance Company
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:20:47 GMT
Reply-To: borden@m5.harvard.edu
Distribution: ne
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

Have any of you out there ever dealt with auto insurance claims?  Here's my
situation:  Recently, my '81 Toyota Corolla Tercel was rear-ended on an
entrance ramp to Storrow Drive in Boston.  The bumper was bashed in and the
trunk lock doesn't latch now.  The other driver's insurance company,
Liberty Mutual, considers the cost of repair to be more than the value of the
car.  (They're probably right - body work is extremely expensive.)  What we
disagree on is the value of the car.  This car is in very good mechanical
condition.  I've put in a lot of new parts recently, and I don't see how I
could get a comparable car for much less than $900.  I've seen similar
models on sale for $700-$800; I'd probably accept something in that range.
Liberty Mutual is offering me a mere $450.  How do I go about challenging
this?  Thanks in advance.


     - Dave Borden
       borden@m5.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts)
Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Organization: Brandeis University
Distribution: ne
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:42:37 GMT

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 line tracks are still in place on Galen Street near Watertown
Square.  The Globe recently reported that the A line was discontinued
in 1969, and that Galen Street cannot be adequately repaired - it's
quite potholled - because the MBTA hasn't decided if it really wants
to rip up the old tracks or not.

According to the report, the MBTA still occaisionally uses the A line
tracks to transport subway equipment to its garage on Nonantum Road,
but that they plan on using flatbed trucks in the future.

--Pat

P.S. Does anyone know where the Transportation Library is?  Someone mentioned
it earlier on this group in reference to the T.
From: richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Recommend a health/disability insurance company
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:59:52 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Kronos Inc. / Waltham, MA
Disclaimer: This posting is a personal opinion and not that of Kronos Inc.

ede@harpo.osf.org (Ted Ede) writes:
> Can anyone recommend a plan for a single person for under $100 per month.
>
>I'm also looking for disability insurance, should I become injured and
>unable to consult as a software engineer.  

How does $50 a month sound?  Join IEEE (which you're eligible for as
a software engineer, if you can find 3 existing members to write
references as part of the application), and you can get into their
group major-medical plan which costs about that much for full injury/
illness/hospital coverage.

-rich
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun)
Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:40:29 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Kronos Inc. / Waltham, MA
Followup-To: ne.politics
Disclaimer: This posting is a personal opinion and not that of Kronos Inc.

spike@coke.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes:
>	Me, I'd like to see the street cars back.  I think they are
>cool.  Other people argue the points of:
>...
>	* More frequent (but you could just run more buses).
>	* More convenient/Cheaper (no transfer at Kenmore).

I never could understand why the T has its head in the sand so much
on that latter point.  A lot of other transit authorities issue passes/
transfers upon request, good either for a certain number of "hops" on
the system or for a certain amount of time.  The mode of transit, bus
or trolley, really shouldn't matter given the fact that a single authority
runs both.

This, I would argue, makes the whole system more enticing and "seamless".
It's that latter point which makes a car so attractive around Boston:
within Route 128 and outside rush hour, you can get between virtually any
two points within 15 or 30 minutes, without really having to think much
about routes and scheduling.  In a place like New York or San Francisco,
the car is an annoyance (you have to know exactly which route to take
and what time of day to avoid in a car), but the transit system can
effectively take you between any two points in a predictable amount of
time.

Whenever anyone proposes doing the above (opening a new trolley line,
or the like) people howl that it'll be inconvenient and costly.  THAT'S
JUST BECAUSE THE T DOESN'T EVEN WANT TO CONSIDER TRANSFERS.  Public
demand for the system would skyrocket if they'd just grant us this one
little thing.  It'd even be worth a fare increase.

So, why is that that the T's is so intransigent on this?  What's the
history and the modern-day rationale?

-rich
Followups to ne.politics.
From: rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Mexican neighborhoods in Boston area?
Date: 24 Jul 1992 21:37:52 GMT
Organization: Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc.
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcsun25.bbn.com

In article <1992Jul24.203134.1293@osf.org>, kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup) writes:

|> 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.

I believe that JP is primarily Puerto Rican, and maybe secondarily
Central American, but hardly at all Mexican.

Best bet might be to call a group like Alianza Hispana in Cambridge
or Oficina Hispana in Roxbury (or maybe it's in JP).

-- 
Ron Newman		rnewman@bbn.com
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: chou@riscee.pko.dec.com (Jesse Chou)
Subject: Re: Berry Picking farms in Eastern Mass?
Reply-To: chou@riscee.enet.dec.com (Jesse Chou)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard MA.
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:51:34 GMT

============
CAR FOR SALE -- never anything wrong; moving oversea; must sell
============
'91 MUSTANG LX, black, automatic;
air condition; cruise control; am/fm/cassette;
power window, power lock, power mirror, power steering, power brake;
air bag; 17k miles;
asking for $8.2k

Please contact Jesse (at ACTON,MASS)
email: chou@riscee.enet.dec.com
phone: 508-493-6058 (day), 508-263-0894 (night); leave message
-- 
Jesse Chou	-- chou@riscee.enet.dec.com

These words are entered into net by the keyboard.
I am not responsible for them; neither is my employer.
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin)
Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:36:19 GMT

I recently went to a hearing the MBTA had about the Watertown line. A number
of people (including me, sorry, Spike!) argued against returning the
trolley service, in large part because of the traffic issue. It's not just
the loss of parking spaces, though.  Washington Street has become a major
thoroughfare, and there's just no way you can squeeze both LRVs and cars
through Brighton Center (unlike Cambridge Street, which was designed to
allow a set of tracks like the ones on Comm. Ave.)  Then there's the
problem of people (including my wife), bikes and cars forever getting into
accidents from slipping on the traicks.

One proposal somebody raised: extend the trackless trolley line from
Watertown Square, which not only would solve the diesel problem but
provide better access to Harvard Square.

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?
-- 
Adam Gaffin
Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass.
adamg@world.std.com
Voice: (508) 626-3968. Fred the Middlesex News Computer: (508) 872-8461.
From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Busting & Cause (was Re: Article from THE...)
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:39:38 GMT
	<6772@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> <1992Jul22.161638.22751@kronos.com>
Distribution: ne
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

In article <1992Jul22.161638.22751@kronos.com> richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun) writes:

>I know of two gay activists who have stated that they'd be willing to
>engage in sodomy on the State House steps to protest the 20-year maximum

>I hate to think of what might happen should the police decide to
>concentrate their valuable time on a witch hunt like this.  As oppressive

A related case *did* happen in Georgia in, umm, sometime around 1988.
Police had a warrant to search a house for some non-sex-related
reason. One roommate answered the door, saw the police with warrant,
and let them into the house. Another roommate was in his own room
having sex with another man. Police arrested the man on a sodomy
charge, and he was convicted. The case went to the Georgia state
Supreme Court and was *UPHELD* (does anyone remember the details of
this?) 
  
The laws just plain shouldn't be on the books, *IMHO* 
As the folks who are working to get the Mass laws overturned point
out, it doesnt do anyone any good to have laws which are not enforced.
It hurts respect for the law, and it gives the police an arbitrarily
applicable weapon.
   
Did you all know that the same Sodomy law prohibits anal and oral sex
between heterosexuals? Still think it should be on the books? 

(I have a long clipping about the Mass law on my desk, if anyone is
interested. Dapper O'Neill wants the laws to stay as they are)


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From: alexm@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Alex Milshteyn)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Volkswagen Dealerships
Date: 25 Jul 92 17:36:14 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Mass General Hospital CIPR

>In article <1992Jul22.140443.17349@eff.org> rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) writes:
>>	Does anybody have any advice on what dealerships are
>>relatively honest...

Oxymoron: honest dealership.

Watch out, regardless the reputation of the dealership you walk into.
Don`t do or buy anything you did not intend to.
Do your research in Cosumer Reports first.

Good luck at a dealership you choose (another oxymoron?)

am
From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:28:50 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <l78j13INNa0j@news.bbn.com> rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) writes:
|The "A" branch went to Watertown Square.  . . .
|
|Service on this branch ended in 1969.  I really don't know why.
|The tracks are still there.  Maybe someone else knows more?

I suspect they decided it was more economical and possibly as fast to
bus passengers from downtown to Watertown via the turnpike extension.
The tracks are still there because they still to trolley maintenance
at the car barn in Watertown (or still did last I heard).

	/JBL
=
Nets: levin@bbn.com  |  "There were sweetheart roses on Yancey Wilmerding's
POTS: (617)873-3463  |  bureau that morning.  Wide-eyed and distraught, she
              N1MNF  |  stood with all her faculties rooted to the floor."
                     |					-- S. J. Perelman
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: What does the Globe's one-liner mean?
Followup-To: ne.general
Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:53:26 GMT

mgelman@cyclades.ma30.bull.com (Michael A. Gelman) writes:
>
>Can anyone tell me the purpose of the cryptic one-liner over the weather
> on the front page of the Boston Globe?  Today's was something about
> "air gasp", I think.  I don't understand any of them.

(gentle reminder: make sure your outgoing news has line breaks; the above
was one long line)

The one-liner actually says "SLIP FROM AIR GASP".  It often helps to read
them out loud (air = our).  The humidity will make you gasp, and slippery.

Yesterday's was "RESIDENT STICKER".  This airmass does seem to be here to
stay...
-- 
David Brooks					dbrooks@osf.org
Open Software Foundation			uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
Six more months!  Six more months!
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin)
Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: ne
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:25:43 GMT

In article <SPIKE.92Jul29114301@coke.std.com> spike@coke.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes:
>
>	It is true, for half a mile or so around Brighton Center, you
>couldn't pass an LRV.  So what?  You can't pass the buses now.  It's
>not like the trains are going to be parked, they are going to be
>moving along.

But buses can (and sometimes even do) pull to the curb at bus stops,
letting cars around them.  Trolleys could never do that, at least not in
Brighton Center, where traffic is already so bad some people are beginning
to drive on the wrong side of the street for up to two blocks to make a
turn (nothing quite wakes you up in the morning like a Saab coming at you
head on :-) ).

>	Problem: The bus could not go beyond the end of Brighton Ave,
>without installing new power lines, since the can't share them with
>the B line.  You'd have to build a turn around for the buses at the
>corner of Brighton & Comm and there is no room.

Good point! I hadn't thought of that.
>
>
>	What makes you think people won't?  From personal experience I
>know that large numbers of people take the "purple line" in from
>Providence, So. Attleboro, and Attleboro stations.  Why wouldN'T
>people on the South Shore and west of 128 (or 495) make use of the
>commuter rail?  Every been on the SouthEast Expressway or at the
>Weston Tolls at rush hour?
>
>	I belive if public transportation is there and reliable people
>will use it.

Sorry. I should have said it makes more sense to spend money as
cost-efficiently as possible.  I agree people will use quick, reliable
public transportation.  The question, however, is where to use limited
resources, and whether expensive suburban rail lines make more sense than
urban (or even suburban) light-rail lines.  

The T says it has NO money to rebuild the Watertown trolley line, in part
because it's already committed to the South Shore service.  You could
rebuild the entire Watertown line for a fifth the price of the South Shore
line and serve far more people.  Further, given the way the suburbs have
become "edge cities," shouldn't we be looking at ways to deal with
commuting patterns out there, rather than adding another line into Boston?
At some point, these edge cities are going to need their own mass-transit
systems.  Why not an LRV loop along Rte. 9 and down into downtown Natick
and Framingham, for example?
-- 
Adam Gaffin
Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass.
adamg@world.std.com
Voice: (508) 626-3968. Fred the Middlesex News Computer: (508) 872-8461.
From: jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:50:21 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: AT&T

In article <WMURPHY.92Jul24154655@ra.cs.umb.edu> wmurphy@cs.umb.edu (William E. Murphy) writes:
>
>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
>...

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?


-- 
Jim Lacey          
my own opinions    
email:  att!cbnewsl!jlacey  or  jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com
From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:43:45 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston


Does anyone know why, at Harvard Square, Outbound is up and Inbound is
down, but at Porter Square, Outbound is down and Inbound is up?

I hadn't noticed this until my construction-worker friend pointed it
out, and now it is really bugging me. 

Since the Net knows EVERYTHING.....let's hear it!
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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: spike@coke.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
Organization: Software Tool & Die
        <1992Jul27.165021.26470@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <l78j13INNa0j@news.bbn.com>
Distribution: ne
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:43:43 GMT

In article <l78j13INNa0j@news.bbn.com> rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) writes:
<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.
<Service on this branch ended in 1969.  I really don't know why.
<The tracks are still there.  Maybe someone else knows more?

        As I recall, the A line was shut down "temporarily" during a
budget crises and never re-opened.

The tracks are there because:

        a) They still use the yard at Watertown square for repairs and
           work by non-union contractors.
        b) It would cost 4-6 million to remove them.*

They don't re-open the line because:

        a) Some merchants are opposed to parking bans that would be
           needed in some places, like Brighton Center.
        b) Some Brighton residents are afraid it would cause Allston
           (the way of life, not the geographic area) to expand
           (further) into Brighton.
        c) It would cost about 55 million to "modernize"/refurbish the
           tracks.*
        
        *The cost figures come from a recent article in the Globe or
one of the Watertown papers (I don't remember).  It is a current issue
because the towns of Newtown and Watertown want the tracks removed
from Galin St., because of the high number of accidents the tracks
reportedly cause.

	Me, I'd like to see the street cars back.  I think they are
cool.  Other people argue the points of:

	* Cleaner.
	* Quieter.
	* More frequent (but you could just run more buses).
	* More convenient/Cheaper (no transfer at Kenmore).

->Spike
From: burrill@aai.com (James Burrill)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: IBM PC for Donation
Keywords: charitable, education, IBM_PC
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:56:29 GMT
Reply-To: burrill@aai.com (James Burrill)
Distribution: ne
Organization: Amerinex AI

I would like to donate an old IBM PC to some educational or charitable
organization (preferrably a charitable, educational organization).

It has
   256 kB on the system board
   8087
   10 MB Maynard hard disk
   360 kB full height 5.25" (DS-DD) floppy
   Maynard clock-calender
   IBM color graphics adaptor
   Princeton Color Display
   IBM Keyboard
   Assorted old software & manuals
     IBM PO Manual & Diagnostics
     IBM DOS 2.0
     IBM Pascal Compiler 1.0
     IBM Easywriter (worthless)
     IBM Multiplan 1.0
     Maynard support software

I bought it in 1983 and used it for software development. All parts are in
working order and are stored in the original cartons. I had been using it
for regression testing but now feel that there is no longer any need to
make sure things will continue to work on such an old PC.

The recipient of this system will have to pick it up in the Amherst,
Massachusetts area (Western Mass. - 20 miles north of Springfield near
I-91).

Interested organizations can send me e-mail.  Please include some (short)
information about your organization. I will not be monitoring this news
group for replies.

    Jim Burrill
    burrill@aai.com
Newsgroups: ne.general