chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) (11/01/88)
The TELECOM digest has returned. Although I have had no direct contact
with the administrators of the list, it appears that your submissions
should now go to:
telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu
The old address "telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu" should not be used! I will
continue to accept submissions at "telecom@vector.uucp" until the
new address is stable and proven. The address to reach me with comments
and administrivia is "telecom-request@vector.uucp".
There has been a little controversy going in news.groups about my steps
to fill in during the TELECOM digest outage. The issues raised were valid
ones, and I tried to address them politely and rationally to the
net-at-large. (However, here among friends, I'll say that it sucks, and
I feel really jerked around by not being told what is going on with the
list.) Anyway...that's all water under the bridge, I will get off of my
soapbox, and return you to the regularly scheduled programming.
I currently have issues 156 through 161 (excluding a non-existent issue
158) queued and ready to go. They will follow this message. The format
of the digest is being changed around, and this keeps breaking my
un-digestifying program. I have issues 162 and 164 in hand, but need to
fix my program first. All of these issues have some administrative
notes at the top which are stripped in the un-digestifying process. I
have attached them below. Jon used to put administrative notes as a
message in the digest rather than in the table of contents. This is
yet another change which I need to incorporate into the un-digestifyier
at some point.
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TELECOM Digest Tuesday, October 11, 1988 6:20PM
Volume 8, Issue 156
[This digest is being used to test out the new mail system on
BU-CS.BU.EDU. TELECOM and TELECOM-REQUEST are now officially open. The
mail that has been sent to TELECOM@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU has been saved and
will be sent out as soon as we know that the mail system on
BU-CS.BU.EDU can handle the load. --JSol]
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TELECOM Digest Fri, 28 Oct 88 21:49:49 EDT Volume 8 : Issue 157
[We are attempting to refine and debug mailer problems at BU-CS.
Please bear patiently with us, and notify us of duplicates and other
problems. Thank you for your patience during our recent hiatus due to
problems with XX.]
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{{{ There is no issue 158. See message in issue 162. }}}
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TELECOM Digest Sat, 29 Oct 88 22:36:56 EDT Volume 8 : Issue 159
[YOU DID remember to set your clocks back one hour Saturday night, I
assume.... We are now sending out literally dozens of messages which
had gathered here during the forced hiatus. At least one Digest per day
and perhaps two will be issued until the backlog has been reduced. You
should note our new address is TELECOM@BU-CS.BU.EDU. The old address
of XX.LCS is *not* to be used, regardless of it appearing in some of the
messages appearing herein. Thanks, P. Townson]
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TELECOM Digest Sun, 30 Oct 88 0:43:56 EDT Volume 8 : Issue 160
[This is our third issue this weekend. Issues 160-161 were issued out of
sequence; you should have already received 161. Just a reminder again
about those clocks: We are now on Standard Time and clocks should be set
back one hour. If you send submissions to us, please bear in mind we are
still backlogged with enough material for five or six more Digests. Be
patient in waiting for your article to appear. Our new address which
*must* be used henceforth is TELECOM@bu-cs.bu.edu. Enjoy this issue!
PTownson]
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TELECOM Digest Sat, 29 Oct 88 23:10:12 EDT Volume 8 : Issue 161
[This is the second issue of the Digest in as many hours. We will con-
tinue to release these with one or two more on Sunday evening until
the backlog of messages has been cleared. We are aware that some of
you are receiving duplicate copies; this is a bug yet to be rooted out
of the program. JSol is an excellent teacher, considering that UNIX is
not -- uh -- one of my strong points! Enjoy this issue! PTownson]
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TELECOM Digest Sun, 30 Oct 88 21:46:04 EST Volume 8 : Issue 162
[First attempts at any new project are rough! YES, we know there were
many duplicates sent out of issues 159-160-161. These are/were bugs in
the mailing program we are still striving to correct. Additionally, in
the confusing days of the first issues from our new location, issue 158
did not get sent out. There is no #158 - don't look for it! PTownson]
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{{{ I have not received issue 163 yet. }}}
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TELECOM Digest Mon, 31 Oct 88 1:45:50 EST Volume 8 : Issue 164
[In this issue, our European correspondent discusses 'non-standard' num-
bering systems and J. Eric Townsend discusses the proposed business phone
rates in SWBTel territory. I understand since this was submitted, SWB
has since backed off. Sorry to be late with this report, but we are still
a few days backlogged. Enjoy your reading! PTownson]
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Chip Rosenthal chip@vector.UUCP | Choke me in the shallow water
Dallas Semiconductor 214-450-5337 | before I get too deep.