telecom@ucbvax.ARPA (11/18/84)
From: Jon Solomon (the Moderator) <Telecom-Request@BBNCCA>
TELECOM Digest Sat, 17 Nov 84 21:13:31 EST Volume 4 : Issue 122
Today's Topics:
BBS's and responsibility
New telco charging capability?
Strange numbers in AT&T's int'l recordings
Objection
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Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 15:38:50 PST
From: Lauren Weinstein <vortex!lauren@RAND-UNIX.ARPA>
Subject: BBS's and responsibility
To: TELECOM@MC
Getting to be a pretty hairy topic, eh?
--Lauren--
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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 84 09:33 EST
From: Frankston.SoftArts@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
Subject: New telco charging capability?
To: Telecom@MIT-MC.ARPA
Just see a TV ad (by Jeanne Dixon for horoscopes). The number was
415-976-3333. The important point was the charge was listed as
.50+toll charges. This means telco is doing bill-back via the phone
number!! Not even a 900 number!
Am I interpreting this correctly?
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Date: Sat 17 Nov 84 09:04:53-PST
From: Tim Gonsalves <Fat.Tag@SU-SIERRA.ARPA>
Subject: Strange numbers in AT&T's int'l recordings
To: telecom@USC-ECLC.ARPA
While making a direct-dial call from area code 415 to India (011-91-xxx-xxxx#),
I got the following two recordings:
"All circuits to the country you have dialed are busy. This is a recording.
212-5231"
and
"The call cannot be completed. This is a recording. 212-5235"
What are the two numbers, 212-5231 and 212-5235, at the end of the recordings?
Tim Gonsalves
Gonsalves@SU-Sierra
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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 84 11:41:40 EST
From: Brint <abc@BRL-TGR.ARPA>
To: telecom@Berkeley
Subject: Objection
I object to Lauren's avoiding the issue of the responsibility, if any,
of someone who makes a bulletin board available for public use and who,
in no way, controls the content of the messages. Countless shopping
centers across the USA make available hardcopy bulletin boards for
public posting of messages. Are these managements to be held liable of
someone posts a teleco redit card number? It seems to me that, if the
BBS is really accessible to the anonymous public and if the BBS owner
engages in no activities relating to the content of the messages, then
he/she is no more or less liable for message content than the owner of
the supermarket with its hardcopy bulletin board.
Which way is it, Lauren?
Brint
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