[HaBi 1]    News Phone

News Phone TEL-COM is a computer designed by two San Francisco engineers. It is essentially a telephone caller with a recorded message. It can be programmed to call up to 50,000 homes before being reprogrammed. Oh yes, if your line is busy it waits and calls you back. A lot of laughs when your taking a bath, or just sleeping around the house. (sic !)... Then there's the "fone freak foiler foiler" which is merely asking phone-phreaks everywhere to spend a few minutes everyday dialing long distance info and whistling (or blue boxing) 2600 Hz and after getting an open line hanging up. This will activate the telephone company's foiler with a false alarm. If enough people do this, well you know the answer to this one...A recent Bell Telephone campaign and PR sheet claimed that 90% of all coin phones, in New York, were in working order at any given time. However, a recent YIPL survey of coin phones in the Manhattan area showed 83% out of order... The name of a Midtown restaurant, Ma Bells. We decided to go in and try the specialty of the house, fried onion rings. Although there were many empty tables they told us we would have to wait because they were too busy. We finally got a seat but had to explain so many times to the waitress what we wanted that we blew another 15 minutes. Finally the waitress came back with the wrong order. The bill for just one order of onion rings was unbelieveably high, due they said to hidden costs. (it was nice of thein to let us know they couldn't tell us what the hidden costs were) Since we never got the onion rings we refused to pay. A big burly looking bouncer stepped up next to us and told us we'd have to pay, but that next time we came here and ordered onion rings we'd have credit. They couldn't understand that next time we'd make our own onion rings. Many times people ask YIPL questions that we don't have the answer to. Questions dealing with what operators know and don't know, how phone traces are done, and general policies of the Bell's crack security gang led by the fearless Joe Doherty and his turtle Flash. We need people to answer questions like whether ESS will allow Blue & Black Boxes in the areas where they live. We need operators to tell us how they know when enough money is put into the phone to fill it up and it has to be dumped. Tell us anything and everything, don't sign your name, and tell us if you don't want us to print the letter. And if you have friends who work for the kompany, have them write us. YIPL, it is said, has its better days. And although we're doing better in mailing now, the Post Office isn't. YIPL is mailed third class. Now first class goes slow, and even second class doesn't go much faster than osmosis, but we go at the very end of everything else, when we go at all. And there's no sense trying to make it any better because postmen steal your mail, our mail, and everyone else for that matter. So be patient. Allow 2 months for delivery of a newsletter, 1 month for back Issues. And do not send cash or stamps through the mail, BECAUSE THE POST OFFICE STEALS IT. OUR MAIL IS CENSORED, RIPPED UP AND STOLEN, AND WE DO NOT RIP ANY OF YOU PEOPLE OFF. But If you send your $2 and we don't get it, we figure you might have forgotten to stick it in the envelcpe or it might have been stolen. So we ask you to send it in check, or to check if your previous check was cashed. If you don't receive an issue, wait awhile and if the following issue comes, let us know and we'll send you what you missed.

[HaBi 1]    News Phone