telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (09/29/90)
A special issue this weekend is entitled "ISDN Introduction". It was
prepared by Jody Kravitz from interesting excerpts found elsewhere.
This special issue will probably be distributed Saturday evening.
A new addition to the Telecom Archives is a file donated by U.K. Tony
entitled, 'modem.access.in.uk'. This lengthy file is a comprehensive
list of dialup numbers in the UK. It will be available sometime over
the weekend in the archives. To access the Telecom Archives, use ftp:
ftp lcs.mit.edu
login anonymous password: yourname@site.name
cd telecom-archives
CHANGES IN HANDLING OF MESSAGES TO THE DIGEST, EFFECTIVE 10-1-90:
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As you *must* know, traffic here has increased dramatically in the
past few months, and the past couple weeks have been exceptionally
heavy. I remember two years ago when almost every message received
here was published ... then we went to about half ... now it is down
to less than that.
Even so, I have tried to return articles to their senders with an
explanation when they were unusable in the Digest. This is taking
quite a bit of time, in view of the fact that on four occassions in
the past two weeks alone there have been <seven> issues in one day.
(Do any old timers remember when we had one issue per day *most days*,
and on the rare occassion of an overflow I would mention 'this is part
one of two parts today'?)
Starting October 1, there will be no attempt made to return unusable
submissions. Your only acknowlegement from me will be the auto reply
message. Either you will see your message in the Digest within three
or four days of that point, or you may assume it was not used, for
whatever reason.
Priority will be given to messages which require *little or no editing
work*. Priority will be given to *short* messages, and messages which
*paraphrase* earlier writers rather than quote them at length.
Make the 'Re' subject header match the original topic identically.
Keep signatures to four lines or less of *essential* information. No
quotes, jokes, political statements, etc. All will be disgarded.
REplies to messages must now be limited to the first dozen or so
received within a few days of the original article. We cannot keep
rehashing things over and over for several weeks. There just is not
room and time to do that and run new, original articles as well.
These changes are not so much because I want them as they are because
I am rapidly getting buried in messages here and time-consuming work
in the editing and production of the Digest.
Thanks for your understanding. Remember, ** most messages will neither
be used in the Digest or returned starting Monday, October 1. **
Patrick Townson
TELECOM Moderator