Return-Path: Received: by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.7.4/NSCS-1.0S) id XAA12324; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 23:12:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 23:12:16 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <199803240412.XAA12324@massis.lcs.mit.edu> To: ptownson Subject: TELECOM Digest V18 #44 TELECOM Digest Mon, 23 Mar 98 23:12:00 EST Volume 18 : Issue 44 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Internet as Communications Medium and DNS Restructuring (Ronda Hauben) Sprint at it Again: Friday's Free (Tad Cook) WebPricer Available on Line (Monty Solomon) Wanted ASAP: Expert Witness for Mitnick Trial (E.S. Sim) Pacific Bell Tardy Area Code Translations (Clint Gilliland) London Numbers Changing Again in 2000 (Joseph Norton) Two-Letter Prefixes in NYC (Tim Mullen) -48V Power Supply (Anthony McCullough) Bell Logo Question (Ernst Smith) Central Office History (Ernst Smith) Internet Purchase Goes Sour (James Bellaire) Internet Phone and Fax (Al Niven) Books on History of Sprint? 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The Internet as a Communication Medium and how that is not reflected in the proposal to restructure the DNS There is currently a proposal by the U.S. govt to change the way that Internet domain (site) names are given out, and thus to affect in an important way the future of the Internet. The proposal is at: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/domainname130.htm March 23 is the end of the time that one can submit comments on it to the ntia and comments up till then can be submitted electronically. It is interesting to look at the Framework that Ira Magaziner, the advisor to the President, has created looking at the future of the Internet. In the document called Framework, he fails to mention or consider that the Internet is an important new *communication* media. Instead he substitutes the word *commerce* for *communication* and sets out a framework for making the Internet into an important new means of commerce. In two sentences at the beginning of his document he says that "the Internet empowers citizens and democratizes societies" and then he goes on and spends the next 24 pages describing changes that have to come about to make the Internet into an electronic marketplace for business. Nowheres in the "Framework" does he discuss the fact that Netizens are those who come on line to contribute to the growth and the development of the Net. Instead Magaziner sees the Internet as "being driven ... by the private sector." If the "Framework" has *no* understanding of the ways that the Internet and Usenet contribute to and make possible new forms of *communication* between people, then there is no way that the proposal he has made for changing the DNS (domain name system) that assigns address and maintains the lookup tables can help to facilitate the communication that is so important as the essence of the Internet. The Proposal "Improvement of Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses: Proposed Rule" is listed in the February 20, 1988 Federal Register. (And one can make comments on it till March 23. It is also online at the ntia web site.) Instead of examining how this *communication* has been developed and why it is so important, Magaziner is rushing to replace the current system (which was also developed without any analysis of the importance of the communication aspects of the Internet) with a "privatized" new form. In this "privatized" new form, he has proposed creating a "membership association" that will represent Internet users. So Internet users are not to represent themselves, but the U.S. government is proposing creating a rubber stamp organization to promote its attempt to change the Internet from a media for human-to-human communication into something that only conceives of users as "customers" of unregulated advertisers and other forms of business. This is hostile to the whole nature and development of the Internet. Magaziner claims that the "marketplace, not governments should determine technical standards." What he seems to have no knowledge of is how the government support for a standards process that wouldn't be dominated by the most powerful corporations, is some of how helpful standards have been developed. Instead Magaziner is trying to recast the standards development process to mirror the unhealthy situation that develops when the supposed "marketplace" is allowed to set standards. Magaziner is proposing creating a supposed "not for profit" corporation to take over the domain name system functions currently being administered by IANA (the root system and the appropriate databases). This new corporation he proposes will have a board of directors which will be made up of 5 members who are commercial users. There are proposed two directors from "a membership association of regional number registries", two members designated by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and two members from an association he is proposing be created representing domain name registeries and registrars, and 7 members from the membership organization he is creating. (Of which he says at least one of those board seats could be designated for an individual or entity engaged in non-commercial, not-for-profit use of the Internet, and one for individual end users. The remaining seats could be filled by commercial users, including trademark holders." Thus he is basing his proposal on to-be-created associations that will not be based on the Internet, but created to provide for commercial control of the domain naming system. The proposal is an effort to change the nature and character of the Internet from a means of communication to a means of "commerce." It is almost like claiming that the advertisers in a newspaper should have an organization that will assure their control of the newspaper, and ignoring the fact that the newspaper exists to present the news, editorials, etc. The Internet has been developed and continues to be for most of its users, a place where one can communicate with others, whether by email, posting to Usenet newsgroups, putting up a www site, etc. As such it is the nature of this communication that has to be understood and protected in any proposals to change key aspects of how the Internet is adminstered. Also the Internet makes possible communication with people around the world. Thus creating a board where commercial businesses are the main controlling interests is hostile to facilitating this communication. While Magaziner's proposal is being distributed electronically, it gives no indication of where it came from, and why it fails to be based on the most essential aspects of the Internet. Why doesn't the advisor making up such a proposal ask for discussion on line and participate in the discussion so as to be able to create a proposal that will reflect the needs and interests of those who are online rather than a narrow group of commercial interests. The Judges in the Federal District Court in Philadelphia hearing the CDA case (the Communications Decency Act) and the Supreme Court Judges affirming their decision recognized that the Internet is an important new means of mass communication. The Judges in the Federal District Court case wrote: "The Internet is...a unique and wholly new medium of worldwide communication." Judge Dalzell, in his opinion, wrote explaining how "The Intenet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails....We should also protect the autonomy that such a medium confers to ordinary people as well as media magnates....There is also a compelling need for public education about the benefits and dangers of this new medium and Government can fill that role as well." However, there is no indication in either of Magaziner's proposals, the longer "Framework" proposal, or the specific proposal to restructure the DNS, that he is interested in or has considered the benefits of the Internet for the public of the U.S. or elsewhere around the world. Instead he is only putting forward the wishes of certain commercial entities who want to grab hold of the Internet for their own narrow purposes. By restructuring the domain naming system in a way that can put it up for control by a few commercial interests, Magaziner's proposal is failing to protect the autonomy that the medium confers to ordinary people, as the court decision in the CDA case directed U.S. government officials. The ARPANET and Internet (up till 1995) developed because of an Acceptible Use Policy encouraging and supporting communication and limiting and restricting what commercial interests were allowed to do. As such it developed as an important means of people being able to utilize the regenerative power of communication to create something very new and important for our times. Pioneers with a vision of the future of the Internet called for it to be made available to all as a powerful education medium, not for it to be turned into something that would mimic the worst features of a so called "democratic nation" which reduces the rights and abilities of its citizens to those of so called "customers" of unregulated and unaccountable commercial entities. The Internet and the Netizens who populate the Internet have created something much more important than the so called commercial online "marketplace" that the Framework is trying to create. Netizens have created an online international marketplace of ideas and discussion which is need to solve the complex problems of our times. The process of "privatizing" what is a public trust will only result in more problems and fights among the commercial entities that are vying for their own self interest, rather than having any regard for the important communications that the Internet makes possible. Both the government processes and purposes in proposing the DNS restructuring do not ground themselves on the important and unique nature of the Internet. Proposals and practices to serve the future of the Internet and the Netizens who contribute to that future, can only be crafted through a much more democratic process than that which led to the current proposal. There is a need to examine the processes that have actually given birth to and helped the Net to grow and flourish, and to build on those processes in creating the ways to solve the problems of the further development of the Net. Sadly Magaziner's proposal has ignored that process, and thus we are left with a proposal that doesn't reflect the democratic and communicative nature of the Internet and so can only do harm to its further development and cause ever more problems. Ronda Hauben ronda@panix.com Comments and Discussion needed! Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ and in print edition ISBN # 0-8186-7706-6 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Thanks very much for sending this over to me, Ronda. I hope there will be some worthwhile responses as a result. I get the very distinct impression that the government is not at all happy with the traditional use of the Internet as a people's message and information exchange. It simply causes too many people to be knowledgeable in too many areas; it allows for the very rapid exchange of news and ideas; and ideas, you know, have consequences and can sometimes be very dangerous. If *you* were a top level government bureaucrat, would *you* want news of what you were doing and planning to do to be common knowledge among the citizens before you had had a chance to pipe it all through the spin-doctor and he in turn had been able to spoon-feed it to his print media pals? Listen up Ronda: these newcomer .com sites on the net could not give an iota about the history of the Internet, Usenet, or anything else about what has made this medium what it is today. All they care about is what they heard from somewhere else, that there was lots of money to be made by peddling their wares here. It only makes sense to me that the government is going to promote business on the net with the assumption that if enough of them get on here, eventually it will drive the rest of us off completely, either from the noise and conges- tion, or because so many bad things which happen here get publicized extensively enough that the rest of us get totally discredited for having any connection with the net at all. Is there anything left to Usenet at all? I haven't checked it in months. I know that a lot of formerly very active, very lively and intelligent newsgroups have pretty much gone down the tubes because of spammers. In a sense, the spammers have succeeded where the government failed: they got a lot of netters to shut up and go back to using their computers to balancing their checkbook or file away recipies for meatloaf. I think it is equally obvious the newspapers are going to support the concept of businesses taking over the web. Things have been getting a bit too close for comfort for them also where this net is concerned. Their circulation is down, people are discussing things the newspapers had no part in telling us, and they are beginning in general to lose the grip they had on things for many years. Have you yet to see a newspaper 'computer columnist' ever talk about anything *substantial* regarding the net? The two who have those duties for the {Chicago Sun- Times} and the {Chicago Tribune} are both idiots. They print letters daily from people telling about bad things on the net and have yet to ever print a letter or essay from a long-time, experienced system administrator discussing how things really work. The latest insult to one's intelligence appeared in the {Sun-Times} a couple weeks ago under the headline, "Mother's Nightmare About the Internet Comes True". It seems that Mother's nine year old daughter had been the victim of some pedophile (so Mother claimed) on the net. The whole item was fraught with lies, distortions of truth, etc. A few pages further, the computer columnist was busy chattering about some new software program to work with home shopping on the internet. No Ronda, don't expect anything realistic or resembling the truth about the net from the government or their public relations staffs at the newspapers. I tell people I have been involved in one way or another with the net for about eighteen years now, and they give me just a blank look. They have no idea what that means. I had one lady even tell me to my face I had to be a liar; after all, everyone knows it started in 1995 when companies started putting up web pages and stuff like that. PAT] ------------------------------ Subject: Sprint at it Again: Friday's Free Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 12:13:40 PST From: tad@ssc.com (Tad Cook) I saw this today on Tipworld from Wired News. Looks similar to the old Friday Free program, but this time they say it is for domestic calls only. TODAY'S SPONSOR: Sprint Fridays Free from Sprint. Enjoy more business and more savings until the year 2000 when you spend at least $50 a month. We help your business do more business http://www.tipworld.com/arts.cgi?sprintfriday0227 Tad Cook Seattle, WA tad@ssc.com [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Isn't that precious ... well when you consider how well that rip-off did for them the first time around, it is not surprising they would try it again. How long do you think it will be until they start sending out the cancellation letters to the customers who try to make more than one or two short calls for free on Friday? I wonder if they will use that same deadbeat to take -- or rather, dodge -- calls that they used last time. Remember him? He sent out all those letters to customers they did not want tossing them off the program after a month or so; then no matter what time of day or night you called seeking an explanation he was never there. Any of you who feel like defaulting one or two of your lines to them on one-plus for a couple months to see what happens this time please be sure to write back with your experiences. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:12:53 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: WebPricer Available on Line INNOVATION Let your cursor do the walking Web site lets consumers find best long-distance deal for them By Jennifer Oldham, 03/22/98 Despite moves by long-distance companies to simplify their rates, signing up for a long-distance plan that best suits your calling needs still requires some homework. Simplified pricing gives consumers a better sense of how to compare one rate with another, but it doesn't eliminate the need to comparison shop. It also hasn't sounded a wake-up call to the one-third of Americans who have no idea what long-distance plan they're using, analysts say. To encourage consumers to shop around for the cheapest rates, the Washington-based Telecommunications Research and Action Center rolled out WebPricer this month. The Internet-based tool allows consumers to compare seven long-distance companies' rates for the numbers they call most often. WebPricer is available on the center's Web page at http://www.trac.org. ''The recent movement toward simplicity in pricing has been in response, in large part, to the fact that there was a need for Web services like this,'' said Boyd Peterson, a telecommunications analyst at Yankee Group, a Boston-based research firm. ''The goal is to make it as simple as possible for consumers to make a choice without them having to get a calculator out.'' The service is Trac's second shot at designing a Web-based tool for comparing long-distance rates. The first system was based on the Java programming language and wasn't compatible with many computer systems, said Geoff Mordock, a research associate at the center. WebPricer runs on most browsers, making it easier for more consumers to access it. The system was designed to provide a range of long-distance rates to consumers in the event a pending Federal Communications Commission order requiring long-distance companies not to file tariffs goes into effect, Mordock said. The FCC order is awaiting review by the US District Court in Washington. San Francisco-based Salestar, the company Trac teamed with to build and operate WebPricer, has an interest in ensuring it can obtain long-distance companies' tariffs, since it makes software that tracks those rates. For now, carriers are submitting tariffs directly to Salestar, Mordock said. Consumers can use WebPricer to compare seven long-distance carriers - including AT&T, MCI, Sprint, and GTE - by entering their area code, the first three digits of their phone number, and the area codes and prefixes for the numbers they call most often. The template also asks users to fill in what time of day they call these numbers. WebPricer compares rates for state-to-state calls only and not those between area codes in the same state, which is important to note. For instance, a rate comparison for a 30-minute evening call from Studio City, Calif., to Denver found that LCI International offered the lowest price with its LCI Difference plan, at $2.70. Sprint had the highest price through its MTS Basic Sprint Service plan, at $5.70, the same price AT&T offered through its True Reach Savings Plan. Salestar updates the database monthly by choosing up to five of the lowest-priced rate plans for each carrier (including the basic rate schedule for each company). There are several things to remember when using WebPricer. It does not include rates for WorldCom, Frontier or the approximately 400 resellers who buy long-distance minutes at wholesale rates from major carriers and resell them to consumers. It does not include monthly charges. The service also does not reflect special promotions. Long-distance carriers say that's why they recommend consumers use WebPricer for preliminary research but call them directly to ask for more detailed information. Jennifer Oldham is a member of the Los Angeles Times staff. This story ran on page C04 of the Boston Globe on 03/22/98. Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:30:13 -0500 From: E.S. Sim Subject: Wanted ASAP: Expert Witness For Mitnick Trial Computer Expert Witness Needed *Immediately*. A computer expert is needed immediately to testify as an expert witness in an ongoing criminal matter in Federal District Court in Los Angeles. Kevin Mitnick is seeking a highly credentialed expert in computer security, telecommunications, system and network administra- tion to testify in this highly publicized computer "hacking" case. This will be a groundbreaking case and is expected to attract significant media coverage. Testimony will be required as early as March 30, 1998 in Los Angeles, California. Further testimony will be needed at trial, later this year. Expert witness fees will be paid by the federal court. Qualified candidates must have an advanced degree and be knowledgeable in DOS, Windows, SunOS, VAX/VMS, and Internet operations. Experience with cellular telephone networks is a plus. Previous expert testimony and/or publication are preferred. Qualified candidates please contact Mr. Mitnick though his appointed defense counsel, Donald C. Randolph, Esq. at (310) 395-7900. ------------------- Official Kevin Mitnick Web Site -- http://www.kevinmitnick.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 21:38:42 -0500 From: clintcrg@aol.com (Clint Gilliland) Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Subject: Pacific Bell Tardy Area Code Translations The new Pacific Bell/SBC Area Code, 925, for the Walnut Creek, California (split from 510) area has been permissive now for over a week yet Pacific Bell/SBC does not recognize 925 from the Palo Alto or Sunnyvale, CA wire centers. This is Pacific Bell's OWN Area Code. I quote from: http://www.pacbell.com/about-pb/areacodes/areacodes-510.html "When Does The Change Take Place? You can start using the new 925 area code on March 14, 1998. Until September 12, 1998, both area codes will still work in the area covered by the new change. After that, you'll need to use the new area code or your calls will not go through. " I had trouble when the new Utah Area Code went permissive. Pacific Bell took several weeks to get the translations working. I was told that the FCC only requires the translations to be in place on the mandatory date. How are we to get our PBXs setup? Pacific Bell does not allow 10XXX 1 925 to reach the carrier. But our carrier, C&W, can also be reached by 10223#, then a dial tone. The call to the 1 925 341-0925 test number goes through immediately through our carrier, directly. I remember when all new Area Codes or routes were cutover at 2:01 AM (EST) throughout the country. Why are the new Area Codes not setup for translation BEFORE the permissive date? Clint Gilliland ------------------------------ From: Joseph Norton Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:03:41 -0500 Subject: London Numbers Changing Again in 2000 LONDON (AP) -- Codes for London's phone numbers are to change again in 2000, marking in some cases the third change in seven years. London's current two codes, 0171 for inner London and 0181 for the rest (44-171 and 44-181 for foreign callers), will be replaced by a single code, 020, officials announced Thursday. Northern Ireland, the Welsh capital of Cardiff, and three English cities, Coventry, Portsmouth and Southampton, also will get new codes, starting 02 plus another identifying digit. The changes, effective April 22, 2000, are because of increased demand. ------------------------------ From: tim@panix.com (Tim Mullen) Subject: Two-Letter Prefixes in NYC Date: 23 Mar 1998 01:58:26 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Does anyone know, or know where I might look, what all the old two-letter prefixes were that mapped to a geographical area in the 212 area code? Like MUx-xxxx stood for Murray Hill. I've got a 463 number, and a few vintage phones that I'd like to label with an old-style number. Since I live in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, it can't be anything as simple as CH for CHelsea. In fact, since I've only had this number for seven years or so, I imagine it doesn't map to anything at all. But figgered I'd give it a try. (HOllywood works, but doesn't make much sense. :) Tim Mullen --------------------------------------------------------------- Am I in your basement? Looking for antique televisions, fans, etc. --- finger this account or call anytime: (212)-463-0552 ------- ------------------------------ From: Anthony McCccullough Subject: -48V Power Supply Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 17:18:02 -0500 Organization: sparks!networking Reply-To: amccull@erols.com I recently acquired Pairgain's PG-PLUS which is an HDSL/POTS multiplexor. The supplier assumed I would have a -48V power supply. He does not sell them but said he would try to find me a source. In the mean time, I would like to locate at least one source of my own. The product I envision is a Dual -48V rack mount power supply with a built-in UPS(if possible). BACKGROUND I have six analog phone lines each going to up to nine ships at each pier. Each ship uses all six of their lines. I need to supply a two pair E1 circuit (HDSL/Ethernet bridge) for their local area network. To make room for the new E1 circuit I am multiplexing their six voice lines over one pair, using the HDSL over two pair and leaving three spare pair. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Many Thanks in advance. TCC Anthony P. McCullough http://www.erols.com/amccull/index.htm email;internet: amccull@erols.com tel;work: 703-313-5764 note: The McCullough Family, Virginia ------------------------------ From: es008d@biko.cc.rochester.edu (Ernst Smith) Subject: Bell Logo Question Date: 23 Mar 1998 06:53:38 GMT Organization: University of Rochester What are the legal rules for usage of the "Bell" name and logo? For example, with advent of local competition a ILEC might decide that the Bell logo, which they abandoned after divestiure, might have some (sentimental) marketing value. Can that RBOC resume usage of the Bell name and logo? Is there an online source for LATA maps and maps of the LECs service territory? (Like the LATA map on page 18 of the 1998 Fronter/Rochester telephone directory) What is a DMH in the CO? Is a it some kind of switch? ------------------------------ From: es008d@biko.cc.rochester.edu (Ernst Smith) Subject: Central Office History Date: 23 Mar 1998 06:54:46 GMT Organization: University of Rochester I've noticed that quite a few COs are rectangular windowless buildings with a large bell logo. Where these buildings designed dictated by the use of old mechanical equipement or did Ma Bell have a generic blueprint for CO construction? Has their design changed in recent years? Aside from the use of digital switches, how has space utilitzation within the CO changed? Are there still large bundles of copper waving their way through the CO or has it all been replaced by fiber? And what exactly is in a CO? Does an unused CO building have any commercial value for non-telecom purposes? Is there a good source (online or in the library) on the history of Central Offices? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:10:00 -0500 From: James Bellaire Subject: Internet Purchase Goes Sour Looks like selling stuff on the internet can be deadly. From WFRN.COM/News.html on Saturday March 21st: A Kosciusko County (Indiana) man could get the death penalty if convicted of killing a 17 year old from Vermont with a package bomb. 35 year old Chris Dean is accused of building a pipe bomb and sending it U.P.S. from Columbus Ohio to Christopher Marquis. Employer records show Dean, who was a truck driver, was in Columbus the day the package was sent. Federal investigators say Dean felt cheated after reportedly buying some electronic equipment from Marquis over the internet. Dean will make his first court appearance in Kosciusko County Monday. Marquis was killed Thursday when the package blew up as he opened it in his home. His mother was seriously injured. ------------------------------ From: alniven@earthlink.net (Al Niven) Subject: Internet Phone and Fax Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:01:03 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Planet Telecommunications, Inc http://207.25.36.252/index.html Will be http://www.PlanetTel.com in 2 weeks. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 23:17:11 -0500 From: davezinkin@aol.com (DaveZinkin) Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Subject: Books on History of Sprint? Hello! I've recently started taking a college course in data communications and networking, and have been assigned to a group whose class project will be a case study of Sprint. My portion of the project will be a brief (3-5 pages, about 4-5 minutes of discussion) history of Sprint. Can anyone recommend books that might be of some use, either specific to Sprint or general telecom histories that would contain pertinent information? The libraries in this area aren't of much use so far; I've seen Sprint's web site and have located a few pertinent journal articles, but I'd like to include a book or two and the ones I've found locally aren't very helpful. Your help will be much appreciated. Thanks! David Zinkin [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I liked them better when they were in the railroad business using the name Southern Pacific Railroad. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:59:22 -0500 From: David Bennett Subject: Position Announcement Assistant/Associate Professors COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS Robert Morris College Pittsburgh, PA The School of Communications and Information Systems (SCIS) seeks candidates to help implement its innovative undergraduate Communications Skills Program and new interdisciplinary Master's program in communications and information science/systems. REQUIREMENTS Ph.D. degree in relevant field and will be competitive for a joint appointment in Communications and in Computer and Information Systems. Evidence of experience in bridging the disciplines of rhetoric/communication theory and information theory; record of excellent teaching, service, and scholarship; business and/or corporate experience. Interdisciplinary background and supporting credentials in more than one of the following fields: information management, systems theory, systems analysis, software applications, multimedia, computer assisted instruction and presentations, distance learning, applied linguistics, and/or communication law and ethics. Assist in implementing its innovative undergraduate Communications Skills Program and new interdisciplinary master's program in communications and information science/systems. Teaching assignments may include evening and Saturday schedules. Robert Morris College is consistently named among the top ten specialty schools in the USA. RMC offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs to about 5,000 students at two locations in Pittsburgh, PA. Submit a letter of interest, resume, three references, and statement delineating interdisciplinary experience in appropriate fields to: DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES ROBERT MORRIS COLLEGE 881 NARROWS RUN ROAD MOON TOWNSHIP, PA 15108 Robert Morris College is an equal opportunity employer. For more information, contact Dr. John O'Banion Head, Department of Communications Robert Morris College obanion@robert-morris.edu ------------------------------ From: gee@teleport.com (Chuck Gee) Subject: I Have Four RJ11 Manual Switchboxes no Longer Needed Date: 23 Mar 1998 10:36:34 -0800 Organization: Teleport Internet Services I have four (4) RJ11/RJ12 manual rotary ABCD switchboxes that have never been used. They are still in the orignal "retail display boxes" and wrapped in bubble wrap. These have one input and four outputs (hence the ABCD). They are manual, with a rotary switch; and look exactly like a printer switchbox. Please make me an offer for the lot (including shipping charges). I am in another field now, and will never have a use for them (hopefully). I can ship UPS or Mail. Thanks. gee@teleport.com ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V18 #44 *****************************