TELECOM Moderator <telecom@eecs.nwu.edu> (05/06/91)
Our correspondent Julian Macassey has forwarded those files he promised relating to radio interference on phone lines. They have all been forwarded to the telecom archives, and will be available for pulling by interested readers beginning sometime Monday (when I've had a chance to go to the archives, edit them and put them in the directory. Look for the files 'radio-phone.interference' with .1, .2 and .3 following. These should prove useful to folks who have trouble with radio interference in their phone lines. My thanks to Julian for sending them along. In case you had forgotten, the telecom archives is located at MIT, and can be accessed by anonymous ftp: ftp lcs.mit.edu cd telecom-archives. In the final two messages in this issue of the Digest, a new topic of debate is presented for your consideration. In a recent issue of the Digest, John Higdon discussed a sleaze-bag telemarketing operation here in Chicago and asked for information. Several of us contributed what we found out, including Randy Borow, who contributed some inside information obtained in his position as an employee at AT&T. Although the information presented by Borow was largely innocuous, and for the most part obtainable by others -- although not very easily -- I've received a couple posts from readers who took offense at what they believe is a violation of privacy of the *telemarketer* through this release of information. Please read these two final messages today, then send your opinion. I'll print several, including a rebuttal from Mr. Borow if any is forthcoming, then will probably ask that the discussion continue in telecom-priv once the essential points have been aired here. I hope the new week ahead is a good one for you! Patrick Townson