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TELECOM Digest     Mon, 10 Jan 94 01:12:00 CST    Volume 14 : Issue 22

Inside This Issue:                          Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    List of Country Codes (David Leibold)
    Bizarre Cordless Behavior (Linc Madison)
    Dr. Vint Cerf Joins MCI (Dan L. Dale)
    Old Telephones Wanted (Jay Hennigan)
    Radio Modem Help Wanted (John Michael Pierobon)
    Re: Connecting Two Phone Lines to One Phone Jack (Carl Oppedahl)
    Re: Dialing 1 First Prohibited in Dallas (Richard Masoner)
    Re: Best Remote Software? (Richard A. De Castro)
    Re: Landlines Pay Airtime To Call Some Cellular Phones (John R. Levine)
    Re: ITU Method For Writing Telephone Numbers (Erik Thomas Mueller)
    Re: Rate of Change (Michael Jacobs)
    Re: SW-56 and ISDN Questions (Bill Halverson)
    Re: "Dynamic" SLIP (John R. Levine)
    One Way of Dealing With Obscene Calls (alt.shenanigans via Elana Beach)
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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 94 18:56:49 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: List of Country Codes


Here is an updated list of country codes used in international
dialing; errors/additions/corrections can be sent to:
[e-mail] or [e-mail]. Notes indicated by bracketed
numbers are found after the code listings.


Country Codes Summary  8 January 1994

0   - (no country codes begin with '0')
1   - North America (Canada, USA including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,
        Jamaica, Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Cayman Islands,
        British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas, Dominica, Dominican
        Republic, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Christopher and Nevis,
        St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Bequia, Mustique,
        Prune (Palm) Island, Union Island)
        (Trinidad and Tobago [1])
20  - Egypt
210 - (reserved Morocco)
211 - (reserved Morocco)
212 - Morocco
213 - Algeria
214 - (reserved Algeria)
215 - (reserved Algeria)
216 - Tunisia
217 - (reserved Tunisia)
218 - Libya
219 - (reserved Libya)
220 - Gambia
221 - Senegal
222 - Mauritania
223 - Mali
224 - Guinea
225 - Cote d'Ivoire
226 - Burkina Faso
227 - Niger
228 - Togolese Republic
229 - Benin
230 - Mauritius
231 - Liberia
232 - Sierra Leone
233 - Ghana
234 - Nigeria
235 - Chad
236 - Central African Rep
237 - Cameroon
238 - Cape Verde
239 - Sao Tome & Principe
240 - Equatorial Guinea
241 - Gabonese Republic
242 - Congo
243 - Zaire
244 - Angola
245 - Guinea-Bissau
246 - Diego-Garcia
247 - Ascension
248 - Seychelles
249 - Sudan
250 - Rwandese Republic
251 - Ethiopia
252 - Somalia
253 - Djibouti
254 - Kenya
255 - Tanzania [2]
256 - Uganda
257 - Burundi
258 - Mozambique
259 - Zanzibar [2]
260 - Zambia
261 - Madagascar
262 - Reunion (France)
263 - Zimbabwe
264 - Namibia
265 - Malawi
266 - Lesotho
267 - Botswana
268 - Swaziland
269 - Comoros & Mayotte
27  - South Africa
290 - St Helena [3]
291 - Eritrea [4]
295 - San Marino [5]
296 - Trinidad/Tobago [6]
297 - Aruba [7]
298 - Faroe Islands [8]
299 - Greenland [9]
30  - Greece
31  - Netherlands
32  - Belgium
33  - Andorra, France, Monaco [10]
34  - Spain
350 - Gibraltar
351 - Portugal
352 - Luxembourg
353 - Eire (Irish Rep)
354 - Iceland
355 - Albania
356 - Malta
357 - Cyprus
358 - Finland
359 - Bulgaria
36  - Hungary
37  - East Germany [11]
370 - Lithuania [12]
371 - Latvia [12]
372 - Estonia [12]
373 - Moldova [12]
38  - Yugoslavia [13]
381 - Serbia and Montenegro (former Yugoslav areas not otherwise assigned) [13]
385 - Croatia [13]
386 - Slovenia [13]
387 - Bosnia [13]
389 - Macedonia [13]
39  - Italy, San Marino, Vatican City [14]
40  - Romania
41  - Switzerland, Liechtenstein [15]
42  - Czech & Slovak Republics
43  - Austria
44  - United Kingdom
45  - Denmark
46  - Sweden
47  - Norway
48  - Poland
49  - Germany
500 - Falkland Islands
501 - Belize
502 - Guatemala
503 - El Salvador
504 - Honduras
505 - Nicaragua
506 - Costa Rica
507 - Panama
508 - St Pierre & Miquelon
509 - Haiti
51  - Peru
52  - Mexico
53  - Cuba [16]
54  - Argentina
55  - Brazil
56  - Chile
57  - Colombia
58  - Venezuela
590 - Guadeloupe [17]
591 - Bolivia
592 - Guyana
593 - Ecuador
594 - Guiana (French)
595 - Paraguay
596 - Martinique [18]
597 - Suriname
598 - Uruguay
599 - Netherlands Antilles [19]
60  - Malaysia
61  - Australia
62  - Indonesia
63  - Philippines
64  - New Zealand
65  - Singapore
66  - Thailand
670 - Marianna Isl. [20]
671 - Guam
672 - Australian Territories: Antartica, Christmas, Cocos, Norfolk Islands
673 - Brunei Darussalm
674 - Nauru
675 - Papua New Guinea
676 - Tonga
677 - Solomon Islands
678 - Vanuatu [21]
679 - Fiji Islands
680 - Palau
681 - Wallis & Fortuna
682 - Cook Islands
683 - Niue Island
684 - American Samoa
685 - Western Samoa
686 - Kiribati, Gilbert Is
687 - New Caldonia
688 - Tuvalu, Ellice Is (Saipan?)
689 - French Polynesia
690 - Tokelan
691 - F.S. of Micronesia
692 - Marshall Islands
7   - CIS nations, Baltic Republics, otherwise former USSR countries
800 - (see note [25])
81  - Japan
82  - South Korea
84  - Vietnam
850 - North Korea
852 - Hong Kong
853 - Macao
855 - Cambodia
856 - Laos
86  - China
870 - (apparently unassigned, reserved for Maritime Mobile service)
871 - Inmarsat (Atl E) [22]
872 - Inmarsat (Pacific)
873 - Inmarsat (Indian)
874 - Inmarsat (Atl. W) [22]
875 - (apparently unassigned, reserved for Maritime Mobile service)
876 - (apparently unassigned, reserved for Maritime Mobile service)
877 - (apparently unassigned, reserved for Maritime Mobile service)
878 - reserved [23]
879 - reserved [23]
880 - Bangladesh [24]
886 - Taiwan [24]
90  - Turkey
91  - India
92  - Pakistan
93  - Afghanistan
94  - Sri Lanka
95  - Myanmar (Burma)
960 - Maldives
961 - Lebanon
962 - Jordan
963 - Syria
964 - Iraq
965 - Kuwait
966 - Saudi Arabia
967 - Yemen Arab Rep
968 - Oman
969 - Yemen Dem Rep [26]
971 - United Arab Emirates
972 - Israel
973 - Bahrain
974 - Qatar
976 - Mongolia
977 - Nepal
98  - Iran
994 - Azerbaijan [12]

Notes:

[1]  Trinidad and Tobago has been assigned code 296. The date when this
     country code will take effect is unknown.
[2]  Zanzibar is routed via Tanzania as + 255 54, though the
     country code 259 is assigned for Zanzibar.
[3]  St Helena is a code found in service under British Telecom.
     It may not be an official assignment much as it would be a
     hack used by BT to provide overseas service to that point.
[4]  Eritrea separated from Ethiopia in 1993 to become a new nation;
     until +291 code is in effect, use Ethiopia +251 4.
[5]  San Marino will be split from Italy's country code (was 39).
[6]  Trinidad and Tobago are new with country code 296, moving out of
     North American area code 809 (ie. + 1 809). The date when this
     country code takes effect is unknown.
[7]  Aruba got its own country code when it formally became independent
     of the Netherlands Antilles 1st January 1986.
[8]  was under Norway
[9]  Greenland (country code 299) is supposed to be in the part of the world
     where country codes begin with 3 or 4 (Europe). However, since all those
     codes are used up, 299 is as close to 3 or 4 as possible. Country codes
     beginning with 5 are also all gone.
[10] Andorra: + 33 628, Monaco: + 33 93
[11] Removed from service as Germany is now one country. New city codes
     beginning with 3 under country code 49 are now in use for those
     former east German regions.
[12] These are new assignments breaking away from country code 7
     (former USSR). Other countries from the CIS or those republics
     formerly with the Soviet Union, could have new country codes
     of the form 37x or 9xx soon.
[13] Effective 1st October 1993 former Yugoslavia country code 38 was
     split up into country codes of the form 38x representing the
     various nations formed from the breakup of Yugoslavia.
     (Information courtesy teletext of German TV ARD and ZDF as relayed
     by Thomas Diessel ([e-mail])).
[14] San Marino: + 39 549 (formerly +39 541), but moving to country code
     295 at some unknown date. Vatican City: + 39 66982
[15] Liechtenstein: + 41 75
[16] Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base: + 53 99, a special hack dialable from USA
[17] includes French Antilles: St Barthelemy, St Martin, Guadeloupe
[18] should now be onlyu Martinique; was all of French Antilles
[19] includes Saint Maarten, Saba, Statia, Curacao, Bonaire
[20] that is, Northern Mariana Islands, or Saipan
[21] or New Hebrides
[22] 874 is a new assignment as INMARSAT is putting a fourth satellite
     region into service, and adjusting its zones accordingly. This is to
     allow for new land-based services on the INMARSAT network, particularly
     in North America. 874 will become Atlantic Ocean Region West, while
     871 will be for Atlantic Ocean Region East.
[23] Reserved for national mobile/maritime uses in various countries
[24] By CCITT policy, no more country codes of the 880-889 series are
     supposed to be assigned until all other country codes beginning
     with 8 have been taken. 886 for Taiwan is an unofficial code used
     for access to Taiwan. The "People's Republic of China", on the
     other hand, has assigned Taiwan access via country code 866
     (presumably + 86 6, through China).
[25] There is some discussion in CCITT circles that the 800 country
     code could be established as an international-access toll free
     service. This is subject to a formal proposal and CCITT approval,
     however.
[26] with the unification of the Yemen republics, it appears that this
     country code will no longer be needed, as 967 Yemen Arab Republic
     code will likely take over. In the meantime, the dialing procedures
     remain as if Yemen were still separate countries, at least until
     the telephone system can be unified.

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From: [e-mail] (Linc Madison)
Subject: Bizarre cordless behavior
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 09:41:51 GMT


I have for about four or five months now had a cordless phone, a
Southwestern Bell Freedom Fone Model FF1185, ten channels, two lines,
"digital security code," etc.

I'm mostly happy with it, but there are a couple of problems.

(1) There is excessive bounce in the keypad.  I had to take the first
unit back because I misdialed at least 75% of all attempts.  The new
unit is not so bad, but still has bad problems with the '2' key.

(2) It has ten channels, but doesn't do any sort of "automatic channel
selection" or anything like that.

By far worst of all, though:

(3) Sometimes, when I press the "change channel" button, if my
neighbor (in the same apartment building) happens to be using her
cordless phone, *she* gets connected to my call while *my* handset is
frozen out.  I don't know what happens to any call she is on or is
attempting.  This has happened three times so far.  What usually
happens is that I hear a click on the line (the other person usually
assumes it's my call-waiting) and then the static gets progressively
worse.  I press "channel" to try to get a better connection, and get
dumped.  This is EXTREMELY annoying.


Linc Madison  *  Oakland, California  *  [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 94 16:36 EST
From: Dan L. Dale <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dr. Vint Cerf Joins MCI


  WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ via First! -- MCI today announced
Vinton Cerf, well-known in telecommunications and academic circles as
a data visionary, has rejoined the company to serve as senior vice
president of data architecture for the Data Services Division.  Cerf,
who was with the company in the early 80's, will be responsible for
developing the network architecture of MCI's future data services, as
well as the development of a common framework in which data, voice and
video services can be delivered to businesses and consumers with equal
ease.

  Cerf, 50, co-developed the computer networking protocol, TCP/IP,
widely used in the industry and for communications between the diverse
university, government and commercial data networks, known collectively
as the Internet.  He also has served as president of the Internet Society
since 1992.

  "As we further develop networkMCI, the company's recently announced
strategic vision, and the new generation of services that businesses,
consumers and governments will want, we need the best minds available
to help lead these efforts," said Richard T. Liebhaber, MCI's chief
strategy and technology officer.  "Vint is one of the leading
architects of what we know as public data networking today, as well as
a major contributor to the development of technologies needed for a
national information infrastructure."

  "We're very pleased someone like Vint will help MCI drive a new
generation of data services as we move into the 21st century," said
Liebhaber.

  Cerf joins MCI from the Corporation for National Research
Initiatives (CNRI) where he has served as vice president since 1986,
conducting national research efforts on information infrastructure
technologies with CNRI's president, Robert E. Kahn (also co-inventor
of TCP/IP).

  Prior to this, Cerf was vice president of MCI Digital Information
Services and served as the chief engineer of MCI Mail from 1982 to
1986, working with MCI's J. Robert Harcharik, creator of MCI Mail and
currently general manager of MCI's Data Services Division.

  Cerf also has played a major role in sponsoring the development of
Internet-related data packet technologies during his stint with the
Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) from
1976 to 1982.  He served on the Stanford University faculty in the
computer science and electrical engineering departments and worked on
the ARPA network development at UCLA during the late 60s and early
70s.  At MCI, Cerf will again team with Harcharik under the recently
formed Data Services Division based in Dallas.

  The division is charged with the development, engineering,
operations and marketing of all MCI data services and is part of MCI's
organization devoted to harnessing emerging technologies into
applicable services under Liebhaber.

  These include MCI's virtual data services called HyperStream, which
will include asychronous transfer mode (ATM) technology-based services
MCI plans to deliver under networkMCI in the future.

  MCI, headquartered in Washington, offers a full range of domestic
and global telecommunications services through one of the world's
largest state- of-the-art networks.  With 1992 revenue of more than
$10 billion, the company is the second largest long distance provider
in the United States and has more than 65 offices in 55 countries and
places.

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From: [e-mail] (Jay Hennigan)
Subject: Old Telephones Wanted
Date: 8 Jan 1994 10:01:46 -0800
Organization: Regional Access Information Network


I'm looking for repair parts or collectors groups of old telephones.
In particular, I have a brass Western Electric candlestick phone which
is missing the steel diaphragm from the receiver.  The phone has
patent dates of Jan 26, 15 - Jan 1, 18 - May 7, 18 - Sept 21, 20 on
the base and 329W on the transmitter.  Also have a Kellogg candlestick
in need of a baseplate.  A source of the woven jacket cordage used in
the old days would be nice as well.

Reply here or e-mail [e-mail].  I will summarize all responses.


Jay Hennigan    [e-mail]   Santa Barbara CA

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From: [e-mail] (John Michael Pierobon)
Subject: Radio Modem Help Wanted
Date: 8 Jan 1994 14:15:58 -0500
Organization: Cybergate, Inc.


Hello,

I am trying to set up a communication link to a hub from a remote part
of South America.

Here is the problem.  My computer, or home base, is located in a place
where telephones do not reach.  Neither celullar nor wire can be
strung to reach this place.  Therefore, my only option to transfer
data is via a "radio modem".  A friend of mine suggested I look into
this, but he was not able to provide me with more information.  Where
can I get additional information on "radio modems"?

Thank you.

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From: [e-mail] (Carl Oppedahl)
Subject: Re: Connecting Two Phone Lines to One Phone Jack
Date: 9 Jan 1994 17:34:49 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC


In <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
writes:

> [e-mail] (Carl Oppedahl) wrote:

>> In some states the steps the moderator describes are exactly right.  In
>> New York, things are a little different.  Telco is obligated to provide
>> a network interface jack (if that is what you want) *in your apartment*,
>> for a price that is fixed -- unaffected by how long it takes to do.
>> This is the case regardless of whether their records show a previous
>> second line in your apartment;  all that changes is the amount of the
>> fixed price.  Last I checked the cost for your situation (where they
>> claim there was never a second line) is $88.

> It's $88, but if there aren't any more terminals on the pole they will
> charge you an extra $30 to $50 (depending on the work needed) to add
> that extra line terminal to the pole.  This is information from the
> technicians and the business office here in Binghamton, NY.

I find this very interesting, since it goes against what I understood
the New York State PSC policy to be.  I was under the impression that
if you order a Network Interface Jack (you have to be sure not to call
it a "regular phone jack") the cost is fixed.  In particular, that no
matter what work turned out to be necessary between the NIJ and the
phone company central office, that work was being done for the same
fixed $88.  If you can describe this a little more fully (in the
newsgroup or via email) I would find it most interesting.  And if
others in New York have been through this exercise and been charged
something other than the fixed-price $88 for the NIJ I would be
delighted to hear about it.


Carl Oppedahl AA2KW     Oppedahl & Larson (patent lawyers)
Yorktown Heights, NY    voice 212-777-1330

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From: cendata![e-mail] (Richard Masoner)
Subject: Re: Dialing 1 First Prohibited in Dallas
Organization: Central Data Corp., Champaign, IL
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 21:24:36 GMT


In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
(David L Kindred) writes:

> My parents lived in the SWB part of the Dallas area a few years ago.
> During the time they lived there, the dialing requirements not only
> varied due to area code and "localness", but also by whether the
> "other" phone company was involved.  I don't remember the particulars,
> but dialing a local SWB-SWB call was different than dialing a local
> SWB-GTE call.  As I recall, you needed at least ten, if not eleven
> digits, to call a GTE 214xxxxxxx number from a SWB 214xxxxxxx number,
> even if the call was to the next exchange (or next house...).

> Has any of this changed recently?

I just moved from the D/Ft. Worth area last month. I worked in Irving,
which is GTE land (214 area code), and lived in SWB-serviced Euless
(817 area code). To call from home to work, I would dial 214-xxx-xxxx.
To call home from work, I dialed 817-xxx-xxxx.  To call from work to
my friends in SWB serviced Watauga (about 20 miles away), I dialed
1-817-xxx-xxxx.  I never encountered any difficulty in accessing
phones serviced by different providers.  So I guess things have
changed.


Richard F. Masoner    Central Data Corporation
1602 Newton Dr., Champaign,  IL 61821

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From: [e-mail] (Richard A. De Castro)
Subject: Re: Best Remote Software?
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 03:10:59 GMT


Joseph Ferguson <[e-mail]> writes:

> I need a reliable remote software program that will actually run
> Windows. I use an Intel 400 at home and at work. Haven't had any luck
> trying PcTools Commute.  Do any of these remote programs run Windows?
> Thanks for any suggestions.

Carbon Copy windows -kinda- works.  good luck.


[e-mail]     Richard A. De Castro
California, North America, Sol-3

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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 94 22:33 EST
From: [e-mail] (John R Levine)
Subject: Re: Landlines Pay Airtime To Call Some Cellular Phones
Organization: I.E.C.C., Cambridge, Mass.


> There already is blocking for 1-579, and 1-976 blocking, ...
> [the leading ``1'' tells you it's toll]

If that theory were correct, nobody would ever complain about 1-900
bills.  I think we've found that's not the case.

The problem is that cellular airtime costs a lot more than an in-state
toll call, the former being on the order of 50 cents per minute, the
latter more like 15 cents per minute.

> This would have prevented -- or at least lessened -- the New York pager
> scam, and can reduce the problems with 976 numbers.

Hardly.  I know I can call any place in the country for 25 cents per
minute or less, except for surcharged numbers.  Some of the 212-540
numbers cost $40 for the first minute.  The problem isn't free calls
vs. non-free calls, it's cheap normal calls vs. expensive abnormal
calls.  (In New York, for example, no calls are free, since you are
charged at least one message unit for every local call.)  The 579
prefix costs significantly more to call than any normal Colorado
prefix and callers are going to find that out the hard way and
complain.


Regards,

John Levine, [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I don't think the complaint people make
about 1-900 is that there is a charge; I think it is because a lot of
900 numbers charge *so much*.   PAT]

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From: [e-mail] (Erik Thomas Mueller)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 17:46:00 GMT
Subject: Re: ITU Method For Writing Telephone Numbers


In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
writes:

>> But then some French idiots came up with a stupid numbering system...

By the way, note that the current numbering plan in France is scheduled
to be replaced in 1995 by the uniform NPA + 8D where NPA =
    1 Ile-de-France (Paris, ...)
    2 Northeast France
    3 Southeast France
    4 Southwest France
    5 Northwest France

Dialing instructions: Within an area code: 8D. To another area code:
0+NPA+8D.
To another country: 00+.
(Information is from "numero s'il vous plait" by Claude Perardel, a history
of French numbering plans available from the huge Musee de
Telecommunications, Pleumeur-Bodou, Cote-d'Armor, France).

By the way, I'm posting this message from a Minitel. Everyone in France now
has USENET and Internet mail access via 3617 EMAIL on the Minitel. A Minitel
costs about $3.50/month. ISDN is available everywhere. Plus we also have
Bibop!


Erik Thomas Mueller   Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 00:04:09 EDT
From: Michael Jacobs <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Rate of Change


Gordon Palameta's comments regarding the complex interactions of
technological change and society are right on the mark.  Too often we
forget that the history of our civilization is a history of
technological progress.  Triggering factors result in widespread and
substantial change.  Mr. Palameta described several such factors in
his article.

To understand the significance of events occurring today, and their
potential significance as triggering factors for tomorrow's progress,
we must understand the significance of past events that catalyzed the
progress that resulted in today's world.

Historically, incremental developments in the communication arts have
resulted in revolutionary changes in our society.  The invention of
language is credited with being a causal factor for the development of
society.  Paper resulted in a the first indirect communications
medium, and allowed the development of modern religions.  Medieval
church mail services offered the first reliable widespread
communications services and Guttenburg's invention of movable type
certainly caused revolution- ary change as did the Morse telegraph,
Bell's telephone, Marconi's radio, etc.

So too, will the changes in computer/telephone/video communications
result in changes which we can only speculate about, with the near-
certainty that our speculations will be wrong.

James Burke's excellent series "Connections", shown occaisionaly on
the Learning Channel and the companion book illustrate this point
exquisitely, and is reccommended highly to anyone interested in
understanding how progress really affects society.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: SW-56 and ISDN Questions
Date: 9 Jan 94 18:56:44 GMT
Organization: Pacific * Bell


In article <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
writes:

> Sirs: I'm a tech with Brown University in Providence RI.  My question
> is basic, yet important to our work here at Brown, perhaps you may be
> able to give me some direction to obtain the answers.

> 1. Which countries/provinces have SW-56 service and are ISDN capable?

Within the USA, these two services are considered to be "complementary",
in the sense they can coexist within a network.

> 2. Here in the US what cities have been converted to ISDN, and who are
> still operating at SW-56?

In California, Pacific Bell is offering both ISDN and SW-56.  Since
the service is hardware dependent, the prefix you get from the phone
company will determine whether the switch you receive dialtone from
provides either or both service.

Here is an 800 number you can call to find out what is available in
our service territory:

                        800-995-0346

You need a touch-tone phone.  You will be able to find out what kind
of service is available based on the NPANXX combination you enter.

Hope this helps!


Bill Halverson    Pacific Bell

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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 94 12:54 EST
From: [e-mail] (John R Levine)
Subject: Re: "Dynamic" SLIP
Organization: I.E.C.C., Cambridge, Mass.


SLIP is simply a way of passing packets back and forth betweeen two IP
network nodes.  It doesn't make much sense to talk about multiplexing
it, since IP already does all of the multiplexing you need.  With a
SLIP link, at a particular moment either you're connected or you
aren't.

You may be thinking about the distinction between hard-wired and
dial-up SLIP.  In the latter case, you typically dial into a terminal
server, enter the password, then give a SLIP command.  The server
assigns you an IP address from a pool it has for SLIP users, tells you
what it is, and away you go.  The better PC TCP/IP SLIP implementations
recognize the message with the IP address and automatically update
their tables, so it's all pretty much automatic.


Regards,

John Levine, [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Elana Beach)
Subject: A Good Way to Deal With Obscene Calls
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 07:13:17 GMT


Sorry I took so long to send this to you, Pat!  It's funny as hell in
any case...  =8)

-Elana

  Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
  Subject: An Obscene Phone Callers Worst Nightmare!
  Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
  Date: 11 Nov 93 18:53:38 GMT
  Reply-To: [e-mail]
  Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corporation


   I don't know if this qualifies as a "shenanigan" or not, but last
   I night had some fun with an obscene phone caller!

   Before reading this, I have to tell you that I am a male.  Having
   the first name Tracy leads to stuff like this happening from time
   to time...

   [ Some names have been changed to protect the ignorant. ]

   The Scene:
      3:30 in the morning, my bedroom... last night. I'm dead asleep!
      You hear the ringing of a the phone right behind my head on the
      head board.

   [RING]

   Tracy:  <Blink> "Huh?"

   [RING]

   Tracy (picking up the phone): "Hello?"

   Mysterious Caller: (In a deep raspy voice) "I want to lick your [fill
   in the blanks here]"...

   Tracy (mind still fogged with sleep): [Silence]

   [Click]  The phone hangs up...

   Tracy (looking at his caller ID system): "Cool..."

   I get up and jot down the phone number... This is where the fun
   begins!

   Since I am now awake and will need a few minutes to get my blood
   pressure back down to somewhat near normal, I decided to have fun
   with the obscene caller!

   I went down to my PC and fired it up... tossed the US Residential
   Phone Book CD ROM for the mid-west into the drive and did a quick
   search on the phone number I jotted down from the caller ID.

   Within seconds, I had the name and address attached to the number!
   Michael Smith, 837 Appletree Lane... Got it... This is going to be
   fun!

   After jotting down the information, I grab the phone...

   [RING]

   (A familiar voice answers the phone... it is the person who called me
    just minutes before)

   Michael: "Hello??"

   Tracy (In a well practiced "Voice of Pure Evil"(tm)): "Hello Michael,
   remember me?  You wanted to lick me..." [CLICK]

   (The "VoPE" is best described as James Earl Jones having a "Bad Voice
    Day"...)

   I waited about 5 minutes... and picked the phone up again...

   [RING]

   [RING]

   Michael: "Uh, Hello??"

   Tracy (using the "VoPE" again): "837 Appletree Lane, Michael... I
   know where you live!" [CLICK]

   One more time... waiting about 5 minutes... I pick up the phone...

   [RING]

   [RING]

   [RING]

   Michael (voice a bit shaky): "He... Hello???"

   Tracy (once again, the "VoPE"): "I'm coming for you Michael!" <CLICK>

   I went back to bed... :-)

   I think Michael might have had trouble doing that himself!

   Isn't technology GRAND!  :-)

   -- Tracy Schuhwerk

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