jsol@BUIT1.BU.EDU.UUCP (06/05/87)
I am using an experimental delivery mechanism for TELECOM now. I have in place a "second queue", specially for TELECOM. It takes a quick two line modification to sendmail itself, and some configuration hacking to do it. I did this because bu-cs (our mail gateway) was overloaded by TELECOM distributions, so I made a system that I could move around from site to site as the needs change and as the load changes (if we really lose I can have my workstation deliver the digest). The incoming mailboxes, telecom and telecom-request will always be at BUIT1.BU.EDU (unless we change the host name). There are some folks who have "copyrighted" their submissions. I am going to return unsubmitted any message that is copyrighted because TELECOM is in the public domain and in order for it to remain a valuable asset to the community, it must remain so. I don't want to get involved with the legal issues of copyrighted material. Note that also, any material that comes from the AP or UPI newswire will not be submitted either. This policy is consistent with my previous notes about message content. If you announce the latest batch of "illegal sprint codes" I will not publish that either, in fact that is the main reason why TELECOM is a moderated digest. I think we have pretty much settled down from the move. We still get duplicates, but I suspect that this is being tracked down and will slowly become a non-issue. I will continue to the best of my ability weed out the duplicates.
TELECOM Moderator <telecom@eecs.nwu.edu> (08/24/90)
This issue marks the conclusion of nine years of publication of TELECOM Digest. The Digest's first issue was dated August 24, 1981, however that issue was actually mailed August 25. For much of that time, the Digest has been distributed both as a mailing list and as Usenet's comp.dcom.telecom newsgroup. Jon Solomon, was the founding Moderator of TELECOM Digest, and conducted this forum through the late summer of 1988. I assumed responsibility for the Digest in October, 1988. Just as Computer Underground Digest and the Caller*ID mailing list began as offshoots from this Digest, likewise TELECOM Digest itself began as an offshoot of the HUMAN-NETS group; and its original purpose was to discuss telephone topics which had been raised in the HUMAN-NETS group which were not of interest to most readers there. Chip Rosenthal maintained the gateway between TELECOM Digest and the comp.dcom.teleom newsgroup for a few years. Many of you have been participants since the very beginning. It has been fun, and the time has passed quickly. The changes we have seen, documented and discussed in the Digest are rather incredible. But the changes in the telecom industry in the past decade have been pretty incredible also. Here's to another nine years of the Digest! OVER THE WEEKEND: An Illinois Bell service representative, in dire need of money to pay her bills was bribed to provide some confidential company data to an outsider. Names and specifics tomorrow. PT