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- DISTRIBUTED TO NEW READERS UNTIL THE FALL OF 1988. IT WAS SUPERCED BY
- THE 'NEW.USER' MESSAGE AT THAT TIME. PT
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-
- Welcome to the TELECOM Discussion List
-
- Hello,
-
- I am the moderator/maintainer of the TELECOM discussion list.
- In addition to the usual maintenance functions of updating the
- list and keeping an archive, I also have responsibility for
- composing the digest from the pending submissions, controlling
- the daily volume of mail, and answering administrative requests.
- You have now been added to TELECOM.
-
- TELECOM is a spinoff from the HUMAN-NETS discussion list. Topics
- relating to the telephone network and how it works, data transfer
- and the switching equipment necessary to make it happen, modems,
- and line drivers were starting to be discussed in HUMAN-NETS.
- These side discussions began to overrun the bandwith of a single
- mailing list. As the discussions became more technical and less
- in line with "human network engineering", I moved the discussion
- off HUMAN-NETS and onto a new list, TELECOM.
-
- TELECOM is a digest list as are HUMAN-NETS and SF-LOVERS.
- Your submissions for this digest should be addressed to
- TELECOM@MIT-XX. For convenience and prompt handling,
- administrative requests / problem reports / etc. should
- be addressed to TELECOM-REQUEST@MIT-XX.
-
- A complete record of the TELECOM discussions is maintained in the
- list's archives. The current archives are divided into 5 files
- covering the dates shown.
-
- File on MIT-XX material distributed between
-
- <TELECOM>VOLUME-1.TXT 12 June 1981 and 31 December 1981
- <TELECOM>VOLUME-2.TXT 1 January 1982 and 31 December 1982
- <TELECOM>VOLUME-3.TXT 1 January 1983 and 31 December 1983
- <TELECOM>VOLUME-4.TXT 1 January 1984 and 30 June 1985
- <TELECOM>VOLUME-5.TXT 1 July 1985 to 31 December 1986
- <TELECOM>VOLUME-6.TXT 1 January 1987 to 17 May 1987
- <TELECOM>VOLUME-7.TXT 18 May 1987 to 25 September 1987
- (please note, the above file is in unix mail format).
- <TELECOM>TELECOM.RECENT 26 September 1987 to Present.
-
- Please note that you do need to login to FTP files from MIT-XX. We
- provide an account named ANONYMOUS, which you log into with any
- password (you must type a password). People who cannot obtain copies
- of files themselves may request copies of the file by sending mail to
- TELECOM-REQUEST@MIT-XX
-
- There is little more that I can say about TELECOM by way of
- introduction. At the moment it continues to grow and change
- rapidly. I trust you will enjoy being a part of that growth.
-
- Cheers,
- JSol
-