The Telecom Archives is available for your use. It is located at MIT
and is available at least a few ways:

If you have a real-time Internet connection and are allowed to go
off your local net, then you can use WWW or FTP.

To use the web: Our URL is http://telecom-digest.org

To use FTP:
You would issue the command:   ftp massis.lcs.mit.edu
                               login anonymous   (use name@site as password)
                               cd telecom-archives
           
Once connected, you will see the main directory and the several sub-
directories with files on various topics. All the back issues of
TELECOM Digest since 1981 are filed in the back.issues sub-directory
beginning with years such as '1987' at the top.

If you prefer, you are welcome to use the Telecom Archives Email Infor- 
mation Service instead. Return mail to Internet addresses is usually
accomplished within a minute or two. Sites using UUCP/other networks
will get their responses back by email in due course, as mail is deliv-
ered at their site.

To use the Telecom Archives Email Service:

             send email to:  tel-archives@telecom-digest.org

The subject does not matter.

In the text of the message, enter these commands on your first use
of the system so you will get help by return mail:

REPLY yourname@site      **This must be the first command**
HELP
INFO
INDEX
END                      **This must be the last command**

You will get back three items in the mail: a help file, an information
file, and an index to the files in the Telecom Archives. You can then
order additional items as desired, as well as search the master index
to Telecom Digest for authors and subject titles since 1989.

The help and info files will explain how to use the Archives Email
Service to its fullest advantage.

Happy hunting and exploring!  Seventeen year's worth of stuff will be a
lot for you to go through.


Patrick Townson
TELECOM Digest Moderator