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TELECOM Digest began publication in August, 1981. The Digest was
started as an offshoot of the Human Nets discussion group. For more
information you should read the file 'old.hello.message' which was the
introductory letter given to new subscribers for many years.
Also read 'newuser.letter' which is an updated version of the same
letter to new readers.
You might also want to view 'first.issue.cover'.
Telecom Digest was founded by Jon Solomon, who was the moderator until
October, 1988. During 1987 he was assisted with a few issues by Jim
Dixon. He began the Digest while at Rutgers University, and it has
been published at several sites including Rutgers, MIT, Boston University,
and most recently at Northwestern University.
I took over moderation in October, 1988 while the Digest was at BU,
and moved it to Northwestern in February, 1989.
In the beginning, the Digest was published only every few days; whenever
enough messages accumulated to do so. The massive explosion of
interest in telecom related matters following the 1983 divestiture
caused the traffic to become much heavier. Throughout 1989, often
times three issues per day were required.
The Usenet comp.dcom.telecom group was unrelated at first. The Digest
messages went there beginning in 1982, I beleive. For a couple years
in the 1986-89 period, the Usenet gateway to comp.dcom.telecom was
managed by Chip Rosenthal; when he was no longer able to do this, I
took it over and maintain it from the accuvax machine at Northwestern.
This change took place late in 1989.
These archives were likewise stored in a variety of places, including
Rutgers, MIT, Boston University, and now back at MIT again. During the
1987-89 period, they were at Boston, on the cs.bu.edu machine. They
were relocated to lcs.mit.edu in January, 1990.
Limited sets of archives also exist elsewhere: some readers have very
complete sets; Northwestern University has volume 9; as does the
Net Exchange BBS on Telenet, and NYCENET (New York City Board of
Education), which began receiving the Digest for their users during
1989.
I became a regular contributor to the Digest in 1987, while I was a
user of the Portal Communications Service. Some contributors have
been reading and writing to the Digest since 1981 however.
Patrick Townson
TELECOM Digest Moderator
January 20, 1990