Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!usc!wuarchive!texbell!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Announcements Message-ID: Date: 1 Dec 89 05:33:37 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Lines: 38 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 542, message 6 of 7 1) I want to welcome a new telecom user/discussion group to the Digest family of readers. The New York City Board of Education operates a computer message system called NYCENET. The system operator there is Mr. Buzz Robbins. Each issue of the Digest is now available for users of the NYCENET machine, in the telecom discussion group. Mr. Robbin's network address is 'buzz@nycenet.nycboe.edu'. Welcome! 2) A special edition of the Digest will be published this weekend and put in your mailboxes probably on Sunday. Entitled 'Telecommunications Privacy in the 1990's', this Digest will be the transcript of an address given by Marc Rotenberg to the United States Telephone Association on September 13, 1989 in Washington, DC. Mr. Rotenberg is a director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. 3) As you have probably noticed, mail volume was *exceptionally heavy* in the telecom mailbox the past two days....and there is still a backlog of several messages in the queue. Multiple Digests will be issued from now through the weekend until the backlog is ended. There has been about a two-day backlog, which is gradually being reduced. 4) Twice in the past two days, readers have submitted excellent items from recent issues of the [Wall Street Journal]. One was an excellent and very unbiased discussion of your favorite subject and mine, Caller ID. Regretfully, Dow Jones and Company does NOT take a very tolerant view of reprinting their stuff, even admittedly 'without permission' as is the custom on Usenet. Most papers and magazines say nothing at all about reprints here, but DJ & Co. did force the removal of an item in the Telecom Archives nearly a year ago, as some of you will recall. Please, no WSJ or DJ & Co. articles without their written consent. Thanks. Patrick Townson