This new section of the Telecom Archives has been established as a
place where book reviews from the TELECOM Digest over the past two
years along with reviews from several other publications can be found
in one convenient location.

Where the reviews appeared in TELECOM Digest they were usually written
by Rob Slade, but there are other book reviewers included. Most of
these simply have the date, the reviewer's name and the title. Reviews
that have been included from other sources usually have the masthead
of that publication shown in the file.

One problem with files names in Unix is the limitation on the number
of characters in the name. This means some of the book titles had to
be abbreviated.  Where possible, an abbreviation was done in order
that the author's name could be included. Where abbreviation was not
possible without -- in my opinion -- causing the title of the book to
be almost impossible to comprehend then the author's name was omitted
in order to give more space to the title itself. 

In addition to the reviews here which appeared in TELECOM Digest at
some time or another in 1993-1994, you will find reviews which
appeared in Computer Underground Digest, Virus-L and a few other
places. Often times, these which appeared in other journals were also
written by Rob Slade. 

Enjoy the book reviews!  If you see some books you like, enough detail
is given in the reviews to assist you in locating a copy at your
favorite book store. 

Got other books that should be included? They should have a specific
telecommuniations or networking theme. 


Patrick Townson
TELECOM Archives
January 5, 1995
telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu