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NOVEMBER, 1986 


VOLUME THREE. LUMBER ELEVEN 


$2 


^CM— more than a bargain 


by John FrMiiifirt Hud Emmanuel < Hrvlrfcsteiri 
Losi month, we printed a stoiy on ;i eortlpuny called ICN, 


Tlii’ month, we have more details whseh may prove ij$e]u3. 

The Independent Communications Network supposedly 
all ows yon to ma ke all the ealLs you waist for !i tiX) a mouth , To 
sifin up for this, you need a sponsor. You can also, if vou 
choose, sponsor ether people. If you manage to convince 
SOonebody to use this system, you make 125, If that person 
convinces someone else, they mate $25 tind you make S5, Jt 
JIOOS down si* levels, so the maximum you can make is £50 on 
one sale. Rut there V no limit to how many sates vou can mate. 
Tlia t's how that end of tlse dea I works. Some iieople who sign 
up for ICIN choose tite ''marketing plan " which is what was just 
described, Olheis choose both this and phone service (which is 
referred 1o as “purtylinc service" 1 ), And some just ehoose to use 
the phone service alone. 

We called ICN Jo ask a bout sign ing up, The person at tin: 
other end said 1 hut if ice wanted to sign up, wed be given a n SOfl 
number to call to get our dial tone, Everyone gets the same StKJ 
number, If iTs bsi^y or if it rings more than once, the customer 
must hung up and try again. fie said straight oul thill we 
probably wouldn't jf?et through the first time. Lie said on the 
average you have to redial for about l^-ti m mutes to get the dial 
fOtte, He said that evenings were very busy and it wasn't a good 
idea Lo try then. "What a bunt duy£Twe asked. “They're busy 
too," he said, 

Whal TCN is d bing is reselling ATT's WAIN hncs. This in 
itself isn't illegal, Rut ICN is estLmatct! to have over &.UOO 
customers, fubtl only 54 lines- for thei r long distance network, ] t 
would be quite a trick to find ou! how many customers ICN 
resti? has. All personnel seem to take offense at this question, 

TCN was sLarted in Wautoma, Wisconsin on July r$, lf?Sb. It 
didn't hike Long for complaints to roll Into the Wisconsin Public 
Service Commission, In September, ICN relocated in Cody, 
Wyoming, The representative told us tifcU there is no corporate 
i ncome tax. in Wyoming. 

ICN saves a Int hy never sending out hills. The S 100 is due on 
the last WOrkingduy of the month. Presumably, LftbeydonH get 
pii id , youraocess code is shut off. There is a Iso another method, 
which is a [idle (tightening. They subscribe to a service known 
ns Cher ko matte, which will a utornattealLy take .£ 1 00 On L of your 
cheeking account every month! 

We have yet to find anyone who has successfully completed a 
call an this system, or even gotten a dial tone. The SOfl number 
we oh l-i lined never stops ringing, 

And not all the Complaints come from irate customers who 
can't geL through. In TCN^ first ad campaign, they £ive an 
example of a WATS number. The number was given 
presumably so customers or sellers could see what fi real lsiX> 
number looks like, Tlie number they gave, 800*1 CN-FK EB 
belonged to the Life Control Institute in New Jersey. 1.0 was 
stuck paying for every call that people made to the sample SOU 
number, thinking they could yet free phone mils. Eventually 
I he people f rom LCI sent ICN a letter requeuing that they pay 
for their share of the WATS hill, bid ICN' never sent a response. 

Accord ing (o the representative, customers tuive at) davs to 
claim a refund, Ele also told us tluiL once you did get through, 

T4il 


them were three possible ways your call could bs: Completed. 
The find was optie-fiher, which g;ive the best connection. The 
"second was FX copper, which was fairly good. I he third was 
A TJfcT W ATS . which he said was the worst and that you could 
bandy busir the person pa Ihe other end. 

The company has some kind of a deal worked out with 
AT&T in which they gel more lines put in as they get more 
customers, Their codes are six digits Ihtlgand oils can lie made 
to anywhere Ln the United Stales, Including Alaska, Hawaii, 
awl c1l<: V i.rgin Islands. Calls t;mY be made from A laska or tc 
Canada or Mexico. 



THI1 1- IK Si r ISSUE of ICN k newsletter, “Party line 7 But Jhc 
party may be a surprise for subscribers— buried un tha back of 
One of their ‘Tippticatsoji 1 ' forms in tiny print is (Ik fact that 
commissions arc nol paid to yoir for any custonwrs you sign up, 
but only on customers that also pledge U, be salesmen. If you 
sijyi up for Jhe service, you may discover a whole worlil yf 
simitar surprises. 


Specifics 

We did a lillle detective work on ICN and this is what we 
came up with. The General Manager Is Larty Hartsougb. the 
President is John Heeg.and the Vice President is Robert Booh. 
The current address tor ICN corporate headquarters is 808 
Meadow Drive, Cody, Wyoming 824 14. At this address rhev 
Itave 25 lines allocated as follows: .SO 7-5 8 7 -47 DO to 09 j s Lhc 
customer service deparhnent. As of Monday, November 3. 
(here wax only fi live line hum sequence. 470 [ .6. 7, 11,0 are being 
eliminated. They have another ten-line bunt sequence; 307-587- 
47.10 lo 39. Wc suspect Lhis is used for sales people to cal! ip 
regarding sates t(ui L have just been completed, On these lints, 

(conlinut'-d on page 3-88) 


MASTERING THE NETWORKS 


by John Anderson 

] tie dearie to allow computers to lii.IV to each other Lias given 
way to a mu Ltitude of networkscaeh having the ir own protocol 
arid characteristics . These dive™ neLworks-are liJL gaiewfiyod CO 
each olher such that a truer on any one of Chest* networks tan 
ootnmimkaite wild a user on .another network. In a sense- the 
networks themselves are nel worked lopelhcr. In this article, we 
will at tempi to untangle Ihc wires connecting there networks 
and examine the ARPAnet* RTTNF.T, CSnct, Mail net, UUCP 
network, a nd tlicir gate ways. 

The ARPAnel is perhaps the most well known of alJ the 
networks. 1 he ARPAnel is funded by Ihe Advance Research 
Projects Association (Department of Defense) and exists 10 
allow else various research institutions to shine both resources 
and information. All types of machines running every 
imaginable operating sysCem Lue on th is network. Havi ng an 
account on a machine which is an AKPAneL nude is Uifi most 
desirable position lo be in front a networking standpoint. This 
situation is advantageous heenuse the ARPAnel hits gateways, 
to ail of Ihe networks we will discuss, Because of tins and some 
properties we will discuss later, the ARP A net has also been 
termed the IntcrNct. Physically, ARPAnel nodes arc 
con ucctcd by dedicated data lines and use theTCP, 1 ' 1 P protocol 
lor Communical ions. The T CP: I P protocol is one of the most 
popular and veisatik networking protocols currently available. 
TrP;' 1 I s was made popular by the ARPAnet and evolved Or'i it, 
A node on Lhe ARPAnel CUP remotely login to, send mail to, 
and transfer flics with any other node cm the network d Lnsciiy. 
This is Lite only network which allows a nscr to remotely login 
to all of the nodes on the network. The hacking possibilities for 
a user nn this network arc almost unlimited. The Network 
[ n for paction Center computer which is available to ARPAnel 
users is ihe idlblMXe network resource. Et provides abundant 
information about the ARPAnel and Hie various gateway sites-. 
A user on the ARPAnet can contact NIC by using Uk 
command TELNET to ope i'l a e 0 n n c c t i n n w i t h 
SRUNJC.ARPA. 

The BITNET is sbuLim Lt> lhe ARP, A net in that it alsn uses 
dedicated lines for communications, The solidarities end ilsere 
because instead of the TCP,' l P protocol the 1M t'NET uses 1 he 
Rf>C?s (Remote Source Control System} protocol. This 
network was originally composed Of IR-d mainframes and 
mlnicomputcTS due to its Lise of lhe RSCS protocol which is 
exclusively IRM’s, Recently RSUS emulators have become 
available for machines running VMS and UNIX . Scvcml rrnn- 
1EM machines have joined the R1TNET using these emuLitors 
and many shall follow. It is doubtful* however, that the 
RITN ET will ever support aLI of the features tha L lhe AR P Ariel 
boa si s since 1 lie RSCS protocol is very restrictive. The BITNET 
only supports electronic moil and tile transfer between its 


nodes. It is noi possible for one node to remotely login to 
another. Inrpii rics about the Rl'I'N ET can lie add netsed to: 
Edncom 

ttitiLH'f Network Information Center 
P.O. Box 364 
Princeton, N.l M5Jt 
Phone: 734.1878 

1 he CSnel or PhuneNel is u network of uilivcnsity computes 
sciencedepartmems and other research institutions. The CS net 
Ls radically different from the networks mentioned above in 
that every node on tile network Is only connected to the relay 
node (CSNET -RELAY) . The connection to th is centra) node is 
not via a dedicated Sine but via d ia l-up phone Lines. Periodically 
(usually once a day) the CSNET-REl AY will call each node cm 
(lie network to sec if there arc any messages to be transferred . 
This type of network Architecture gave the CSnct its second 
name, PhoneNel. The CSitet Only supports elect ionic mail and 
is not Likely to ever support any other network functions if it 
d nes, not cha ngc Its method of networking. The CSnel is run by 
Bolt Re ranch and Newman Inc. and can be contacted at the 
following addieis: 

Roll Rcranck and New man Eire. 

10 Moulton, Street 
Cambridge, MA 0213k 
PI, one: (617} 4*7-2777 

A network similar to Lhe CSnei is lhe MaiLnel. Apparently 
tins network only supports tlie transfer of uui U, Al liiis luue ike 
ty|ie nf network structure and machines using this network ate 
unknown to lhe author, However, it would notheunreasonahk 
to assume that this network uses a Structure similar 10 live 
C-Rnet’s. Please address any additional information about 
Mailnet to this mugarine. 

Pe rhaps the Largest and most loosely structured network is 
Lhe UUCP uei work. This network lias nodes ill Canada, Japan. 
Europe, Australia, Lind many oLher Courtl riiis. The UUCP 
network is composed exclusively of machines running lhe 
UNTX operating system. The network uses dial-up phone lines 
for Lhe transmission of dt'tia And UsCS tlic UUCP protocol. 
U LT CP (U nix to U nix Copy Program) is found on every system 
running Unix and systems need only establish a connection 
with one system on the network lo become a fuSly functioni ng 
node. The transfer of mail to any node nn the network is 
supported. Remote Logins mid file transfers me only supported 
with your direct neighbors. 

With SO many different networks, a need ibr inter-network 
oommt, nkmions arose. Gateways aic the bridges which link 
these networks together. Gateway sites a re sites which reside on 
two nr more networks. these gateways allow for the transfer of 
mail messages fr ont one net work to another. They do not allow 

(amtimiod on /Wgr 3-bb) 




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Voice of Reagan Tortures Patients 

Kojin 

A Republican plnn In pin one larpeto! voters with ,l pre- 
recorded irtc&iSji.t tioirt Prealflerit KotaaLd Reapair bark fined 
fpifcri critica lly iJI potlenls at Mesquite Community 1 Eospiial in 
Tfitas were inundated with Mil calls fin rvsarly lour hours. 

N iitscs jtilI > i;-: i C Li r i iif the hospital'll IhLesisifVt CMC ward, 
wL-.ii y of auawej iuc telephomp every few mimites only in hear 
the presidential tt ■: ; ■ . savl Miuy I inally took nil polkut 

tdcphoitei otf i In' book on a ldwqL Saturday niphl . 

"Tlverewerr a lot [nfcnlkjand they were very opj;;uv.aLing. 
3 :1 like Id fcuOw wild did. it" Said bob (iritfLCH, riEdiX-ialC 
admPnistmtnrof the suburban Dallas hospital. 

A KpOkmartait for Lho Ki'p'.ihkeuii National Committee said 
Ibe party wee crying, to e neoumfuc voter turnout in the election, 
but did not intend to press for votes among ssek petiole. 

Ihr Lejenbimc ljI ts WCct .cciici :i led by computers- dikl WCiO 
supposed 1o ff> only to enrolled Republicans- nnd Ren^m 
siipparters in spreilie iitui of 23 status, bul m>( Tewas., lie said. 

[So maybe it wpa Kcags.ii himselfl frcs-klctHs pjet bored 1oo„0 

FBI Actions Anger Parents 

I ■■ t ml "4p w. !’J tin 

M utc llia'i a. year after the I 'll I sebed computer ciqmpnienL 
used by 23 NiifLli COun.ty ((.’ili/omia) teenagers. there have 
been fid acres Li a fid r.s> Charges— jlesL a number of arfgty 
price rats, 

{In October 55, NKJ, ift MSI agents, armed wilh search 
warrants, eoufetaied computers, Keyboards, modems, and 
software from homos ip Vista, Ei-spund id u. Oceanside, 
Carlsbad, Poway, and kanclm Prna.'KpjitDS (all in Saulhem 
Laliforili3.il. 

"Rie FEU alleged tlsat (lie leens bnd used their eompuiers to 
illr^ally tap into n financial dr.lohite peed by the Chnse 
Manhattan Rank. 

I lie irtvfsLigatLdrl has now ended, with the icertagcn signing 
deterred prosccul ion agcccihciLle stating 1 hat if tltcy do not 
■comm it nnyorinset wiLliin the ytstr. they will not he pro* edited . 
"J be government Iras J:o the computer gar. 

U S. Attorney Peter Nnryer is confident thru if the rose ever 
earn a tu Lriat, Lhe youths wiruld be convactcd . 

”1 LliinK justice was done," Nun.cz said. "1 don't tliiitk it was 
necessary to convict people or tty them, When we got thetr 
attention, they IsisicnLly acknowledged the problems had been 
CicalCd and they walked away. It's unfortenaic they still Wasil 
to carry on ihe buttle in ibe press." 

fieverat of Ihc 'LTnagem and Lhcir parcr Is in LIili: IltsL 
intcTviewsahout theease— saylbere was no iudkfUiopllmllbc 
rialabnse was reslricleit. Tbey nee alsnupsuL about the ciyndacL 
of Use Fist; they nslted Ibat tlycir onmes fiot be ncsica hj. 

"ireflhePUrn^entl accused n n(5 bniassed my son and snid if 
hie Latkid abisut it Lis anyone, he'd be accused ;;l uhsLraction of 
joslioE," said unc p.ircul. 

TIk FBI denies tlia.1 its asents acred rudely. 

"Any lime a warrant is served, jienjilc feel sinctirnlHHlabki. 3 
llsiisk anyoiicwoulil, 'said FBI apoksoicffn) Gan y Losuruo. "Our 
n ty-nts are Kenllemen, Ibuy do not intimidate people, they diin'! 
araic people.' [3 lay sure don't af-tuC uil] 

One tecnajver, who was al chinch when Ibe Pitt came 
knocking, sail! thal his mtiLhcf and an I [II a^etiL come Lu the 
ebukb In ^et him. 1 Le saitl Lbat iL was Only 'Ofied Lite KJStstaiLCd 
Lit qiHist iiOU lin'd that the ifalLtCd v.'lial Ji'j bail bmb aOOUBCd of. 

" i'Jicrc was no way to know tliot it was a hip.b-kvd syftem 
used bya hank,"he sn : d. “The-ycnded up by Selling me I was in a 
lOL of LiOuble. " 

The trouble bad all tsnrletL mgnlbs earlier, secieTol teens 
cesntend. when a tnll-lfee r.nnibrr on an d I Kilobit hijBctiii 
boaid .e,v,'L' tltcro bokss to an uifkbov,yi ay stern. 

That unknown system litrned out to b* the mnssive 
I user. h i is i! Dola Corporation, iiHed hytip to 21JXKI eiisknners 


wbo pay Isjt access to its fiiiantciaL ibftWJiation. Unkpown users 
had Uttib tappilffi ibtolhe system and chanfirg password's. 

I? 1 it holh sciuths and parents say lliat the ICCifS WCtC 
enct»itag«5 to use UlC system and wem given an account ki 
Access. 

"You liad Ihc telephone number nnrt thecode name, then you 
OOncccCtd with the system. " said one poaCdl. "At aCellC poifit,, 
there would be a 2iClp OJWLatOt who WOUll) dcpl with you. Thm 
peraofi would offer apy kind of help ypn would wnnL. 

"Why would they nsk how enu wc help you and eaplaui 
differmt pnris of the system, ami literally ask i:iy SOU 30 Call 
haekV Ll was an esl rcbldy friendly altil'.lde, [f they had even 
OlfCC told him Ihcy didn't want him on the system. It would 3iaVC 
been diLlcrcjiL. 1 " 

CJpe parent Ihoupht the system Included panics and an 
encyclopedia ard Lliat iyatCs'iL OWiSCfa fVOtild cvontnalty nsk 
them La puieltase th.e servioe- 

They kind the trap on. Ibey wanlei! the kids to caLI, Llity were 
afrnid they bad n hacker un tbc system. 1 kitOW if sounds Yinrve 
and sLupid but nOnC of tllC porcbts knew " 

> unez labels as "’nonsense" Lbe iijea lbat Lbe kens did not 
know rhev had tapped into a niajoi iLiLabatC. 

"Allof these kids were (tetl inn ' ntoa compiler that they knew 
they should not have, 1 " he said. “WbeLbCC Lhcy tiBW all Lite tCH 
or it is just a hunch of nonsense. YOU jest don't c-j fiiuimnf;i|'ip r 
around ni other people's property," 

L Iff t-cens Hbd tltfir pn rentssny thcf’h.sse ManhaLlmi system 
find Absolutely no warning or name on Lhe system cstJCpf LllC 
identifying Clide "I DC !17D" ktcsplam Lls.'.L this was fi private, 
financial database. 

■"[hfiC WSa Ito wnrbidfk" S-n id one: morhf t. "’[f an yon? wmabl 
hnvo-tnid gel off, ymi’re breaking, Llie iiw, dies WOdhl ISStUC Ifcvcr 
happen cd." 

"'It would hnse been Tnnuy, [f it wnsnY si> terrify inp,"jrvjL her 
parent mid of lhe iceslenL. "[ ke|iL Lluuliil^ tl ki i will l>C Alt 
afstlogy ami well ail laugh abOOL si, lrt.it libit will never 
happrn." 

“O'- imd "Z” Controversy Rages 

rrT-imHYrvi 

Mtvsl people never isoticed they were mining, hut (I COIbpiUCi' 
eoniuHiinL lYon'i Laiiibttlvllle, New Jency calls Lt unfair lbat 
the letters "Q"and "7" have been lefl off tiff ICSepIlPftC dial. 

JSernard Kiskin, operating under thn name ''Qurnt in 
£yjyuu ndt", « thf OiganizCr o3 “CiLiccns Quest to Squcevjc tj 
nnd Z Bnck Onlp tlw Teiepfrioitc Oial". He sorr tek|ihuiie 
makers are d iscrimiuai iuj; nguirut n Ippse number of bueJitKa-ta. 

Rukln said it’s haul to come up wilb a oitchy vanity 
mimher— most of which are actually wordt— foe pirva shups 
Olid bar lteeue icsiatinniLs without a cnmpirfR alplanrl, 

" Atulrak 's numhcrii J -COO-US A-ll A LL, but die it V uo’Q’or 
■Z'Otf! die telephone dial to spelt out Firm. Queen or B-B-Q." he 
Hlid. 

Tt iskiiij 5$, hns writleia 1o New Jersey Bell, Bi ll Atlantic, and 
si a otbeT telephone oompaniEsanound lb? coutlljy tiyinfilO-pCt 
Lhe lettera On Llie telephone dials and bul Ions, 

New Jersey BdJ epokcewntiia.iL LynCLLe Vivian! said no one 
Acer complained, about the m issing letter* before. 

"'Vs'e coulditY slctlLify Where in history it was determined 
what Letters wmild go on what buflOLIS." she said. Bdl the 
ItUlhbCT 1 is reserved Lee ai es code use and 41 is reserved for the 
op;rntuT, she said, 

Uniter Ibe old Rell system, CtfephoriC liaLillJ3 bcputwitli Lwo 
leLters, followed by live number* 

Few tAelianges bc^su with "Q" or "7," so those letters vaiceoc: 
lefl off Ibe dia Is. Ms. Vjviaiu said. “W'o ikiw assign trlepborw- 
listings by numbers., not letters. 1 " altc anid. 

I lie cliange would have to be made on l he *et itself, Wtilcll is 
st.sndmd tbroiifillOUl tile natLon and piubably elsewhere, she 
aaid. 

[Pizza Cuecn?] 


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Letters You Wrote 


T>Vir2m\ 

An; there still any hard-core Tclenel luit k^rK out theft? Aft 


yuu Lired of Telenet dropping La n ier on you after x dumber of 
aics? Tlttn use DunsncL! I found these ?i umbers originally 
puslcd us Unix; d ial-ups, but found them to he Dunsnct access 
number*, Tbns ^ prompt on Dimsnet looked familiar so ] tried 
SOar'ie Teknct addresses and they we it the- sum: as Telenet. 

Here ft I'C the numbers: 6 E 2-493-0294, 612-893-0296 
2AM6T5222 

Amwleiis 

Dftir Amadeus; 

Thanks for the info. However, we found that Duwnel drops 
Harriet on users too a! no a cerium number of unsuccessful tries, 
Ami not ail the adiim'ses are the sitme, f or instance, typing 
MA 11 .won't get yoi i Telemail as It will on Tchou-t, but another 
type of system. There also seem to be more commands, Typing 
if LLP reveals some of them. 

Dear Itififr- 

I In trying to find nul what my ANT is, Om you help? 

frustrated in Minmi 

Dear FI M : 

AN Is (Automatic Number Identification) come in many 
shows and, -tires. Qursis9SB. Other people must dial 31 1 «, hear 
their phone number read hack to diem. Others we've heard of 
ary 1223, 114, 4102222, and even 1 -200-555-1 21 2. We d 
appreciate hearing any others from our readers. 

It might act unity he easier m some eases to find out from thy 
operator when you Ye no! sure what your number Is. They won V 
t?H you on many occasions due ro ‘'privacy "considerations, hut 
one way around that it to act life a repairman and request the 
J drop line ID This, we V told, usually works. 

Dtur 2600 : 

T his comes from a Pacific Roll bdl insert: 

“A new prefix, S 1 1 , w i 1.1 soon be a vaila bk for you to call you: 

Pacific Bc3L busJn*su office toll-free from any area served b v us. 
All our business office numbers will be replaced by toll-free 
numbers with an 8 1 f prefix.. 

“If your PaeRell business office numbers changed to an -6 11 
prefix, the titw prefix and number will appear on your 
telephone bill. 

“After tbi* change, you only difiJ 811-XXXX front Tmv 
PacRcll a re li in the state to reach your local office toll-free. 
However, iJ you aft culling from ail area where 1+ dialing is 
required, you must continue to dull the [ before dialing the 
Kven. d igit 8 3 E number. 

“Some ot you who have special i/.ed equipment could have a 
problem in dialing ihe 811 prefix, You may need to contact 
youi vendor. Until equipment modificatkin is unade, you mav 
continue dialing the (lid business office nmnbcrs available from 
411, 

'This change will save you the cost t>f a (pit cull to Paclkll 
when a call is made to all non-Inca I offices, (Today, calls (o our 
hi) s a iv normally tn 1 1 free from a customc r's home or bus:nc.y> 
areaj’ h 

Reader on (lie Pacific 

Dear Header: 

Something else wiitc.k is popping up in many places it thy. 
ability to choose your operators. Generally, dialing one ft "will 
get yon iwf heal operator, i.y, New York Telephone, New 
Jersey dell. Dialing “QQfwill get you m AT& T operator. The 
local, operators are used for making eollee.i, third party, and 
credit yardi alls to 'local areas whereas A T&. T operators handle 
longer distane.es, We presume they both dan;- the same 
eapah t lit lev, iifi i If rt 1 1 en t- w iff. . 

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Dear 2<S#r 

How come Northern Virginians cunt dial 976-XXXX 
Calls at ail? Since these arc Eo cal calls, 7-digJt dialing is called 
for. 

976 number? a ft trapped to Lire general "fcanmoi be completed 
as dialed 1 ' recording. Tf you dsaL 2172 first, you gpt the stant 
tluug. If the 97$ service provider has also signed up for the 97(5 
exchange in Baltimore, you Can reach It by dulling 30N97&. 
XXX X, but you’ll be charged for an interLATA Long distance 
call on I he carrier of your Choice, assuming that carrier accepts 
9? 6 culls (Sprint and MCI dn not), 

Actually, fiien; ss a way LO reach 202-976 numbers from 
Northern Virginia: U-sO u a Jong distance service lvliidi accepts 
calls via your dialing a 7-digit local access number which tlicir 
switch answers. \3o your secuiity code, ihen 202-976-XXXX 
nixi the roll will go through, Ihe only Jong distance kca'Lc-C 
which accepts 976 calls to ulv knowledge is ALtoet (formerly 
Max), and they charge S2.05 plfis tax for each call regardless of 
length of time or distance. 

AT&'J acecprs 976 calls, but only to other LATAs. AT&T 
also charges only the cost of the longdistance call itself to 97b 
numbers: Ihey don’t carry back tlie 976 provider! premium 
cllitrgr to the caller. Presumably, tins is the reason most 
aLtemaic long distance Companies either don't allow 976 or 
choice through tlie nose tor il, Neil her oi these: resi sons- aii'SCiLr 
to bother AT&'l . 

( Hie Virginia P1?C does not allow the “diaJ it calls’ 1 us they 
believe they cost loo much and are of dubious value, i.c., 
dad-porn, etc,) 

Privute Sector SnlMriher 

Dear PSSi 

While those folks may wry well be right about the lack of 
quality on dial-it services, they really have no business tlecr'ding 
for you what you can and Cannot call. Everyone should he 
tii lowed access to those phone numbers if they he willing to pay 
the_ Charges, We Ye shocked that Sprint and MCI don 't afiow 
H 'd is ft i 976. As for as we Ye concerned, duty have absolutely no 
right to do this, If you ward to call die weather In New York 
from Chicago, who arc they to say that's not allowed? 

Fortunately, there are always ways around their system. 
Unfortunately, TffXhtypes are pretty much the only people who 
know tl\\s. So, for the benefit of everyone alee, u-v suggest 
complaining day and night to any company that selects what 
phone numbers you ran call. 

In the meantime, here are some alternatives. In oar area (616, 
71A, 211, 914). tt new exchange has opened up. Tn<- 9ft) 
cw change also has dtal-it services as well and may be reachable 
sitin9rtj isn t, So fat, we ve omy found two working numbers, 
970-0000 and 97<)fs9 l A2, both of which can be described ns 
alternate porno services. And if the weather is ail you Ye after , 
then we be got good news. [Vent her tote is anew service that not 
only gives the weather, but allows you to choose what city you 
wsmt to hear a forecast for! You simply hay in the area code or, 
for foreign cities, the first three letters of the city, This system is 
also useful for telling you the local time, "(here are even sente 
hidden pities, we Ye told. Here are the numbers for this hvr Ye 
found so far: 212-355-1212, 212-237-5 757, 214^50-5(150. 214- 
869-9200, 3h3-63(>d659. 312-056-0950, 404-976-7676, 512-222- 
2222, 602-250-2323, (i 19*444-4444, 713475-65^5, undid 7-975- 
75. We re also told if tat 1-9/6-76 7f> will work from inside the 
612 area, but not from outside. 

Dear 26 i}th 

You ask wtiylhcre is no “Of on the phone dial. Name me one 

( continued on page 3-36 1 


The 2600 Information Bureau 


BBS NUMBERS 


BRITISH 

1 2007377 
12495747 
13411719 
13417840 
10407150 
10489400 
13786337 
13992130 
t 4793047 
1 4309704 
1433^607 
1 3423772 
i 5424977 
45710026 
13792288 
13796740 
16064194 
4 6232034 
16313076 
16302034 
164SOO10 
16303734 
46697249 
16791 SOS 


16796193 

1 6808 243 

17036133 

1 7940633 

1833 0965 

4S63019S 

13640439 

13033290 

1 0988894 

49022346 

1 9275920 

19414203 

19349847 

19604742 

19607402 

19933322 

19864360 

206414Q1 

206062354 

206967134 

207343355 

214303761 

214440274 

214441484 


272421196 

273773971 

27445246 

277228367 

279441108 

279443311 

293720012 

313461097 

31 3366316 

016373272 

3617369449 

37631B818 

394633336 

39233116 

394276306 

393272611 

40130743 

402473041 

42934346 

440820002 

443733343 

443733290 

45334799 

49 2497130 


22246IB24 

222464723 

223243642 

2246413SS 

22464713S 

22323276 

2262921 10 

227232628 

743311077 

244349336 

244677978 

246865043 

247435162 

249813204 

23654494 

23732974 

23934494 

26352346 

26822177 

76323122 

268710637 

260778933 

260779956 

270767023 


432839169 

404637299 

486223174 

49676335 

4067SB71O 

49249194 

493781334 

302313983 

30688526 

509418132 

312605607 

314248526 

314289924 

314283984 

374426132 

324420133 

37460399 

324822330 

383SB7128 

53439389 

33433833 

3303097128 

36984607 

592860313 


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fISSN 0749-385 L) 


Editor and Publtaher 
Twenty Six Hundred 

Associate E diners 
E r ic Cor lev C-av >d II ude-rma n 


Executive Director 
Helen Victory 

CiirtoQP ist 
Dan Haider 


5HS Operator 
Tom Bten 

Junlt .VbiiL Receiver 
RichAnJ Petrov -ch 


Writers - John Drake, Pau Estev, Mir. French. Emmanuel 
j Goldstein, Chaster Holmes. The Kid 5 Company. Lax Lul'hor. 
Lord Phrenker, Mko Salerno, Too Shadow. S lent Swilchman, 
and the u sua I anonymous bunch 

25C\j is pub rOifvl I?,, 2KC 1 Enlerprisns, Inc . as >alt!anio«Ynnry 
erdanuflticfi. 

.ANMJAL BUBSCfl ■TON PA TPS S12_ individual; sUfl. corporal*?: 

52C, L'.v rjHHij 

Lirervis subscription 52«i sponsorship ssmg. 

BACH ISSUES- 5-3 anch. individual^, 53 c-acl’. -soris-iy-ale 
92 SO each. rsic-KC-si?. 

MAKE CHECKS PAVAKI.E to 2K*> Enlcrsnsw. Ire 
WRITE TO 2fOC, P.O. 0m t„1 tkllr Island, NV llh5JC752 
TELEPHONE IS 1 6l 751 16-00 PRIVATE SECTOR Q6S: |2Ql ) 3S5-4A31 
AfiVCRTISIIVJfj DEPARTMENT PO flprf 702. Middls Is'jrd. tff 
1 1 9b3-0762. Cn 1 1 itx rArap. 

ASTICLP SUBMISSION AjVD LETfPHS eo Bax 3? Middle :s;ard, Mr 
1 1353 CC&a VA? rsadilv acccp-; ad'clc-i, Inna'A CltopeiiFy artwark, prd 
dgi3 let publication. 

POSTMASTER Thi is privn’n ini.iil 



'7r "i the Defense Department. They 're railing around she 
neighborhood to see if anyone ran turtp them figure out why 
every nw of their mlssikz y eejss iteerritiing {heir ewnmemds os\d 
aim inf; themselves at Sirs. ORediy 's house down the bioeft. " 


3^5 


BBS NUMBERS 

fkwfrflHft/, f™ jPi'i't' 


6022S97S3 

720263073 

60420441 

70476366 


	
14271396 


7426*796 

6 1 42727 11 

7426*7963 


	
14364157 


732364039 

6 1 494*730 

73373544 


	
17360449 


762333372 

617469101 

7664154 

622*61590 

7*730311 


	
22630440 


772452773 

62533703 

792265073 


	
26690014 


7R43BU0 


	
264*691 


792203953 

620*63571 

793642324 


	
333*6467 


64332637 

64246*643 

074711147 

69263016* 

S03044164 

6957*474 

8954201*4 


	
90664604 


09532663 

702346373 

903212552 

702552941 

90342013 

703437200 

900614469 

705524003 

908*66390 

703736025 

909773364 

707323723 

912514271 

70752242 

92367*644 

724052302 

92639071 


93*7025 

Letters 

(continued frat rt put?: d~84) 


word that sLarts with "Q” duesn'L t-lni fl with "Qll”. (Only 
or.-: "Q" exchange is possible.} 

Here's .in interesting ^letter-number" for Ibe collection: 
612-kAW-RRRF. It's a Minneapolis licjtsnr store. 

Any Mouse 

Uc-iir AM : 

Ar.iuaity, iett exchange? > wrntd be possible with f 'QU " ’.bice 
an exchitrtge j's three digits. Ami besides. there would hi' t wt> 
other tetters an the r.aine number, son-ecy exchange could stili 
have a name. Ho™ many words do you know of that begin with 
“X'7 That It on every phone yet " isrr T. 

Obviously, the situation is becoming more. serious (sec Hash 
page). it's time i,! 1 e a i! i t iW d up on d demon th Yf o nr Q If ami Z i :' 

Keep ike "letter numlw" coining, folks' Out remember, 
they mu a fte letters that the company art the other end doesn't 
want spelled out, 

D^jir^iSijW: 

Some number? which may be of inleresl to readci's: 

US Knrint (formerly US Tel, but now used by Splint as a 
calling card number} ftKKdSOQDK (3501030), SUS (really MCI, 
but riot l he same as MCl's other 1W0 dialups) bOO+46+462 
(95CH0&8}, ti [Ltl MCI calling card number 5-00024 1 022 
(9501022*. 

Now for some Hides, On US Sprln? , after bearing the drnL 
tone, dial k, then one- of the following numbers: 1 walL gel Ihc 
main office in T>fl lias, 2 will get something that answers ns 
'■installers”, J is silence, 4 is a reorder, 5 is it recording saying 
“ihc speed number you dialed, is inva3idY r :fr.isa HXXJ hertz l one, 
7 Is Unc same as 5, K Lstlue old Customer service number, 9 is the 
tie id office, and 0 is the nlri customer service, number. You can 
key In two digits in some eases and get the “speed number 1 " 

(continued cm parte d-M) 


Wrath of God 
Strikes 2600 

On July 26 of this year, im came very close Ll> being wiped 
out of existence. While we have taken exirubrdinary 
precautions to protect ourselves against any form of 
hanussment from ah kinds of authorities, there wu s one 
occurrence- ttoil WC were almost completely unprepared for, We 
st rev. the word aLmost . 

On this fateful night , our offices took a direct bit from 
Mother Nature herself in the form of a lightning, bolt. While 
nobody was injured and no fires were started, nearly every piece 
of electronic equipment wan completely and irrevocably fried. 

ConspUtcrs, mod ecus, printer?, tape machines— all totally 
nonfunctional. We starred sending equipment out for repairs 
the duy after this horrible kick of fate, and even now we're still 
waiting for satisfaction on a number of them. We fec ! . wC must 
point out that two companies in particular— lipsun and 
Zenith seem very much bewildered ns to how tn lire their own 
machines. 

But there is a bright spot and lllftt should be pointed out as 
welt, Only a few mtnlths earlier, we told taken out a policy with 
Sa fewa i e, the computer insurance people. We don’t mean for 
this to come off sounding like an ,u1vrrtLscmen(, but these 
people were simply incred ibSc ■ Immediately a fter we notified 
llrcm of' our problems, they tenL os forms to till out and were 
rend y to answer any questions wc told . And in less time 1 him i t 
■took for any of ourequipmCOl to lie fixed, they liad a check sent 
to us for tlw entire amount, minus the fifty dcdfci L' deductible. 

We whole-heartedly recommend 1 liesc fol ks for til I cons purer 
uicre, They protect you against thefL, fire, power surges, and in 
our case, lightning. Must users ran be fully protected for well 
under $1 (Kl a year. You can reach Salewa re at S0QB4834W. 
We’d be interested in hearing Other insurance dories regarding 
com puters. 

NatO rally, this incident aud its aftermath have set us back a 
bit. You may have even noticed a slackening off tram nurusoa I 
efficient: v. New subscribers Were subjected Lu longer waits for 
Ihcir first issue and hack issue orders were delayed Up to a 
couple Of months! Our long-awaited expansion and fonwat 
Change had 10 1>C delayed. And all of our uninsured radios and 
monitoring equipment were destroyed. 

It’s now November and we're about back to Ihc point, that WC 
should have been at in August. Most of our equipment tots 
cither been replaced or repaired. We Ye tetter prepared for the 
next Lightning hit, although JlU.Ec could have bee n done to wti i d 
Off that last dagger of destruction. Out phone;, are in working 
order most of the time but occasionally you may get a busy 
signal, a reorder, or total silence that will last for days. This, 
according to New Y'ork telephone, is not realty happening. 
We’ll SK if the Public Service Commission agrees. 

We're back uu track now. Many thanks 10 those who Jer.L 



SVBTEHflTJCfMV SPEAKING 



More Banks Link Arms 

Prra-i 

[luce million holders of plastic cash cards from five New 
England txmks- will share the bonks* 1,300 automated teller 
machines under a new agreement., while a sixth hank has 
expanded its oul Lets wit h a separate agreement. 

The Bank of Boston. Bank of New England, Fleet National 
Rank, Shawm tit Bank, and State Street Bank, as well as the 
eight hanks of Connecticut Switch, an electronic fund transfer 
service, will be Linked by a system to lie called “Yankee 24. ,h 

Officials said that in sis to nine months, customers with cards 
from any participating bank will be ablcto withdraw cash front 
any of the banks' machines. Evcrt,Uia]ly,lliat is expected to give 
those card holders access to l, 8 DO machines an New Lne land. 

Meanwhile, Gay bimks Inc,, which has .1 i250 machines in four 
New England states and SXJ Money Supply machines in retail 
cutlets, will Ik joining the New York Cash Exchange. ' Ibis will 
give Ray hanks' one million card holders access to 2 ,70!) 
additional automatic teller machines. [Of course, they'll hove to 
leave the state to use Ihem 

Sprint — Too Many Customers 

I'li'jiir ph-a Ir-mrcr 

U ,S. Sprint, the third-largest Long; distance company, wh ieh 
has been adding thousands of customers across the nation 
because of a special! promotion, has been having capacity 
problems .in South Jersey. 

New Jersey Bell Telephone Company officials say they erred 
four years ago in growth forecasts for Che South Jersey market 
and did not build enough switching capacity to handle the 
unanticipated expansion . 

Aggravated by Sprint's recent offer of I ft percent off all hills 
for a year, BeiL's capacity shortage has made il di ffiCuLl foi 
customers to get through. When they dial a Jong distance 
number, they hear a recording, that says all circuits aie busy. 
The problem, according to Sprinl, affects mostly residential 
customers in the evenings and On weekends 

Although the capacity shortage could affect other carriers, 
MCI has Stad no reports Of customer calls being blocked. 

AT&T uses its own switching equipment and would nut 
CKpcrifiKC problems because of Hell's switch shortage. 

More Magic Buttons 

USA T r«t* y 

A Denver company has developed a new teLepbune device 
called |L [n Touch" that makes latch-key kids feel safer. 

“Now fa child} doesn't have to worry. You ynst push that 
bu Hod,’ 1 says Larry Modesitt , of Family Couimuntca lions, IitC. 

An JL-by-fr-irtch box that connects to your phone 's jock keeps 
your child in touch with a computereenier where operators a te 
on duty 24 hours a day. Personal! red information on every 
subscriber family, including instruct ions on what to do if 
burtons are pushed by a child, are stored there. 

[here arc two buttons each for police, fire, and medical 
cine rgpncics, Another pai r of buttons turns off a pTe-sct alarm 
when pushed by the chiSd, Jelling the operators know tSic child 
is home. The two-button system prevents such glitches as 
accidental set-off by a baby crawling on the box. 

In response to pushed buttons, (be operators ca II the home to 


find out what Ibe Child needs, or they call a parent, a neighbor, 
or the emergency agency, 

In Touch, tested On 30 Denver families, should he available 
eLscwlierc by the end of the year. In Denver, the leasing price is 
$49 with a monthly service charge of £29.90, Ot the system can 
he bail gilt for $4 1 L > with a monthly charge of £9,95. 

New Payphone Service for Michigan 

Qq’ririrjip.ulMrj W n+. 

Tlie Michigan Public Service Commission has authorized 
the installation and operation of Customer-owned coin- 
operated telephones (COOOTs) in Alltel Michigan IrtcA 
se rvice area. TJ« price thzit (he owners of COCOTs Citn charge 
per local call are restricted to a ceiling of 20 cents. Alltel 
Michigan of KtockbridgC, Michigan, provides the local dial 
tone and loop, hut the owners are responsible lor installation, 
operation, and maintenance of the phone,, 

Meanwhile, M iehiga n Bell Telephone Company of Del roil 
has added to its list of service featu res., Recently, the Michigan 
Pu blic Service Comm ission authorised the phone company to 
state its “chargc-fl-Glll plus'’ service. This allow* users of 
Michigan Dell's coin less pay phones to charge Calls to selected 
commercial credit cards. 

Nickname Listings In Small Town 

ISriM rvwj. I.HrmlKiu: 

In Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, you can give "Coon" LatiuJuu 
a Call. Uet ,L Pa{at H, Cuidry or "Corn Cob" Custiflc on the phone. 
Reach out and touch 'Tec Wee" Frederick. 

In I bis small Cajun rown in the heart of south-central 
Louisiana, it's easy Lo find the phone number for any of Lhcm, 
even if you donY know their first names, 

Coastal Telepliune and Electronics Corp. has kepL alive a 
tradition by allowing residents to include nicknames in their 
phone book listings, 

Myrtle Conrad, whore late husband Lari 'TcJdv " Conrad 
started using rlie nicknames whe n be published Rnsi ux Bridge’s 
first telephone directory .13 years ago, said the nicknames are 
practical as well as colorful because so many people in town 
have the same name. 

Conrad, bought the Breaux Undgc Telephone Co. in the late 
Iritis when Hie town had 150 phones and no meed for a 
di rectory, since a centra I Operator knew everyone In town. But 
id 1949, a dial system was put in place and the telephone 
directory that followed was confusing to many residents, who 
■did n Y know I he given names, of 1 heir neigh hoes' That prom ptc^ 
Fart Cotlrad to allow the rise of nicknames. 

Computer College 

r,r.. 

At FEcctrunic University, .it k possible to earn college credits 
witliuut setting fool on d College campus. 

The "University" Ls run hy Tele-Learning Systems from Sail 
Francisco. The courses range from Right Bruin Drawing 1u 
Informational System.? for Management, and cost between £45 
and £295. The tWO-yeur-old Electronic University leads to two 
associate degrees, two bachelor's degrees ami ihree graduate 
programs. It presently Ibis only two accredited institutions— 
Thomas Rdison State College in New Jersey and City 
University of Bctlcvue,' Washington. 


347 



ICIM (eontinueu ffOrh page J'&l) 

the representatives ^cnti much nicer. Some uiclul info: L .iitrL^y 
Harlsough’s phone mint bri: 307-527-G8 1 2 . The W ATS resale 
witch is Inca ted at 52.fi- West M am St. , Wautormi , W iscotisiu 
54428. The WAl£ service number is SD0-3li7-Sri72, which 
translates tn 4 1 4 -765 -902 7 in Wisconsin. We believe this is 1 he 
number iha L is supposed in give you a dial tone. We've tried 
hundreds of Sirnes at all hOuiS with no SUCCESS. This Line lias a 
51-linc hunt sequence. It used to a Iways be bn sy hot now 1 hey Vc 
"fixed it." by mak itig it ring forever instead. 

The offices in Wyoming are in a -small office building, 
formerly the Marathon Oil office building, Tt's about 25,000 
square feet and approximately 5b people work 1 here. I hey usr a 
Novell Star “si file of Ihc art-' computer with Epson Equity ! 
tcmiinals. They tell us there ate other companies like them all 
nv“j die country, including one called Ideal in Washington 
stale. Ideal supposedly charges £120 per itlOfllh. 

We thought it wou Id be interesting to find ouL wha t Lhe rules 
are for AT AT WATS I iacs co see if these people are doing well 
Or uot. To start with,, it costs SI 2.? to install a Line and 


■» to 
have someone come oul Lu do it. Rates fot “Service Area 6", 
wh ieli enables you to call the entire U mted States are: 



[>ay 

Kvo 

Night 

Firs! 15 l»u.rs 

£2 1 ,77 

S 14.15 

SS.tl 

Next 25 hours 

£l?.37 

812^7 


	
^.63 


Over 41) hours 

£lt.!)8 

Sll/M 

W.63 


If If ?N lias 54 working Li nes and they arc all In use at all times, 
it would cost than about S8000 per line per month, close to 
S4XMJ0Q in Line charges alone for lines, assuming they pity 
fisc Lowest mtc. Now, 54 customers paying SI 00 each only bring 
in 854LH). It doesn't sound very profitable. But consider this. 
There is a very definite limit on the line charges, high though 
l hey are . There a re only so nia ny hou fS in a month . But the re is 
no limit to how many people will send iCN 8 1 00 So, if instead 
of a mere 54, them estimation of B.000 actually sent ttuerli 
money, they'd bring in 814)0,(100 . After paying the phone 
eotripi ny a rid 1 lie salespeople, tltcy U sfi II have over a quai ler of 
a mil lion d cd la rs coming in per mcmLh . And if that Is not enough , 
consider llsis. What if I hose WATS lines weren’t really ava ilabk 
24 hours a day? From the beginn ing. they tell you how days and 
evenings are the worst times to call and you should never expect 
Lo be connected during 1 hose hours, So why botlwr leaving fisc 
lines on in the find place during those limes? N ubody is going lo 
expect to get through anyway. ' FbLv maneuver would bring their 
costs down to S 180,966.96 in total for the WATS lines . They'd 
only need I B 10 miSlomers to beta k even. The possibil il its are 
endless in a situation like tins, where the customer never really 
knows whaTs going on. Tlsa L^s why we feel it pays to stay away , 

Letters (continued from page 3-fifi) 

recording or precede nay of I how numbers wiLh a 0, hut this 
only Ils p pens, on i he £(Xf number. Y ou can also get die d ial Iojk; 
back by hitting the h' fo r a couple of seconds, hut not after a 3 or 
a <?, 

On SUM, after getting the tone, cater £00002 for Customer 
service, K 00042 rings .wmewhere, and 800024 is investigations. 

Same 8(10 extenders are 80024? 1800, *008*22255, and 
W06434M4, 

MpiGt J'hreak 
Silicon Sorcerers 
NYC 

Ikear NP, SS; 

We appreciate the info. We have One thing to add. When 
dialing .OTpflT for oust outer service on dBd. you get an 
answering machine. But it's not on ordinary answering 
m achate. Il 'stt tie-in to Phonemari, an FRbfwrvktf. By kilting a 
fi in the middi-e of the message. you '.nil hrar a voice taking you 
what aj itewlOH you wan! So be transferred tpi If you enter 


NETWORKS (continued from page J 32) 
remote I riRi.ii o i ti II: tm nsfc r. Al most evetyga tewny silc is a node 
on the AKl-'Anet: Internet, therefore if a t^scr can send a 
message from his/ her network to the ARPAnct, it is possible to 
commti i lien te wi i h a ny ol her nel work wh ich lias a ga lew ay si tc 
On Lhe ARPAact . BeLuw is a lisL of gateways- to and from the 
ARPAnct and lhe mailer syntax required: 

t» :hi AKPAraT 

Krmii .T.aH- ViiL-1 piU-H-n ,iiL- MmMl i Sivi'ilni 

S1TNK.T WIXrVMJllTWET wnttno* . .1 Tt P .1 i.lL w W,- .TL1 T M.J 

CSrrri CSN ITI - bLLLAY , CsH ti .ukI -rf U. j , CVN V r 

MallNa H4K V AHIJ-NT 4II.X K.T uiV;,rt.Ot:.,i, HP ASSf Itaruam.M All .NIT 
m'CP SEBHO.imcr ™n»!u*r$mri ft AJarA 

UAlL-YVfl^t In-in Ihv iVHl'.VnU 
-JW AHUXlu-i pfc»!> kjoj *i f -j ilr- r NLXVlas 

HI fNV.I WIJirVM.AHF.l iH-V-iniL-.IMI Nt7l'0rii i h, , %in .All I 1 --! 

C?il«ET-HHLAV.AHrA .€ S.N IT, a™ i - Tf l^> . 3 n r ,A 

ATail^i HAflVAPD ARPA *fn<:i : L>j*r ,M AJI ETfaita nurd ..AST A 

UL'CP SEBMOuVltr.V Doadu«r.LTCr@KlHiiA.AfiPA 

Example J i I: A user nnthe Bl'TNBT wishes lo send a message 
tn a user oa the CSiiet. 

u6w^«ode.CSNTI%aae£-rt[a^AltPjV®lvfl3evin. , BlTNET 

(The @ Is known ns lIk separator and specifies the usei'iia me 
at Lhe ntxfe. An address can only have one (y) in it. As Jhe 
message gets cLnser to Its destination, the @ and everything to 
the right nf it will he chopped off. The$c lhat ii furlhcsL (o the 
right will then become an {ft. lhe & indicales additional 
directions.) 

Example k2\ A user on the U UCP network vvislics (o SC isd 
mail tn a MailNet user. 

Rf:i mw Itbt r'S.mjd eAlAl LN E TCf. b fi rvird .Aft P A 
(1 he LJU CiP network syatax is reversed - The: ! appears on (Its 
left. In this example, Seismo is 1 he machine or gateway the user 
must go through. 'ITiere can be more than cme ! jit a linn, As the 
message progresses, the I furthest to the left and everything to 
Lhe left of it is chopped off. When Lhe last chopped off, the % 
on (b? right becomes an (o. . U UCP is not auto -mu ting, wh ile 
the other networks are. This makes the - feature nccMAty-j 
By following the nhove example*, a vwr with a little 
knowledge of 1 he network he/ she resides on can communicate 
with any node on any network. It is quite possible (bat a user in 
Europe and a user in Australia could communicate with each 
other n n a regula r basis wi th a message elclsvc ry time of only 
I wo days . T Jse uses for the above mail networks are limited only 
by onek imagination. There networki could be used do unite 
hackers- all over the world at an almost negligible cost. 


anything with an H ora 9 as the starting number, you o'fW beam 
dial tone which cannot he broken by /ouch to nes. It witt then 
start ringing and be answered by an .if f,7 person. If ins fetal of 
entering an extension, j'jiw hit a star three times (not too 
quickly), the system will list the extension of every subscriber 
on the System, and possibly their name. Of course, life trick is to 
find the phone number that allows you id login to these users ' 
account * — hvjlu this isitsifftplytt wttyof leaving messages. HT 
smpeet that (he folks tit M(JI> SBS have just gotten thewseives- 
tt Holm phone system. This is indicated by the wqv they keep 
hanging up on people tss soon as they answer she phone. W'ith a 
Roltn system , you m.wr! either prosy the button next to she 
flashing light (which indicates that a line is ringing) and take the 
Call on the built-in speakerphone or pud up she handset {the 
phone automatically knows which fine lo select). If the person 
picking up tint phone picks up the receiver and presses the 
button (as almost all office workers have heart brought up to 
do) their penalty is immediate and tout I disconnection. 

And so it goes.