Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!lll-winken!telecom-request From: paul@unhtel.unh.edu (Paul S. Sawyer) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Decreasing Costs of Transmission Message-ID: Date: 1 May 91 15:12:02 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: UNH Telecommunications and Network Services Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 326, Message 3 of 9 In article John Higdon writes: > I give you Pacific Telesis ... Since this sounded like a horrible, contageous disease to me, I wondered if it was a real word. My desk dictionary says: telesis: progress that is intellgently planned and directed : the attainment of desired ends by the application of intellegent human effort to the means. Does "truth in advertising" apply here, John? The next, possibly related entry, is: telesthesia: an impression supposedly received at a distance without the normal operation of the organs of sense. :-) Paul S. Sawyer {uunet,attmail}!unhtel!paul paul@unhtel.unh.edu UNH CIS - - Telecommunications and Network Services VOX: +1 603 862 3262 Durham, New Hampshire 03824-3523 FAX: +1 603 862 2030