From: "Fred R. Goldstein" <goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Ripping-off Ma Bell in 1975
Date: 8 Oct 90 17:45:23 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton MA USA

In article <13076@accuvax.nwu.edu>, kf5iw!jim@central.uucp (Jim
Blocker) writes...

>Recent talk in the Digest regarding the "censored" _Ramparts_ article
>on how to steal from Ma Bell made me remember a three-part series of
>articles that appeared in _73 Magazine_ (an amateur radio magazine)
>back in 1975.  These articles were probably very damaging to TPC since
>explicit details were provided in one of the articles on how to bypass
>coin-phone and long distance charges.

>Inquire at your local library to see if they have these old issues.
>They make for some very interesting reading!

Odds are your library won't have them.

Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. filed suit against "73, Inc., a
foreign [not CA] Corporation, Spenser Whipple Jr.[Peter Stark] , Wayne
Green, Virginia Londner Green, and Does 1 through 200, Inclusive"
(where the Does were all employees of 73 Inc.).  The Superior Court of
the State of California ruled, in judgement C 126265, that

	Each of the Defendants, and each person acting in
	concert with it, him, or her, is hereby perpetually
	enjoined and restrained from disseminating, publishing,
	printing, selling, giving, transferring, or conveying
	by any means or by any manner, plans instructions, or
	advice respecting the making, assembly, acquistion, 
	possession, or use of any instrument, apparatus or
	device, strategem, code, scheme, deception, false
	pretense or trick which the Defendant knows, or by
	reasonably investigation should know, has as its
	purpose the avoidance of charges for the use of
	telephone, telegraph, and/or any othertype of
	telecommunications service in which the Bell System is a
	participant....

	Notice to Libraries.  Within sixty (60) days following
	entry of this judgement, Defendant 73 Inc., shall
	notify each subscriber to 73 Magazine as of June 1975
	that appears to 73, Inc. from its subscriber list to
	be a library, of the existence and contents of this 
	judgement and shall request that each such library
	refrain from displaying or circulating the article
	complained of in the complaint on file herein, or
	any reprint or copy thereof.  The notice shall be given
	by certified mail, return receipt requested...

etc. etc., including destruction of the article from the back issues
archive.

Old Ma Bell sure played hardball.  That's just a small excerpt from
the judgement, filed Jan. 12, 1976.

Of course, subscribers have their copies.


Fred R. Goldstein k1io         Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton MA
goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com   voice: +1 508 486 7388
Do you think anyone else on the planet would share my opinions, let
alone a multi-billion dollar corporation?

From: "John G. DeArmond" <rsiatl!jgd@gatech.edu>
Subject: Censorship and 73 Magazine (was Re: Ripping-off Ma Bell)
Date: 10 Oct 90 22:29:35 GMT
Reply-To: "John G. DeArmond" <rsiatl!jgd@gatech.edu>
Organization: Radiation Systems, Inc. (a thinktank, motorcycle, car 
 and gun works facility)

In article <13197@accuvax.nwu.edu> goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com (Fred
R. Goldstein) writes:
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 724, Message 4 of 7

>In article <13076@accuvax.nwu.edu>, kf5iw!jim@central.uucp (Jim
>Blocker) writes...

>>Inquire at your local library to see if they have these old issues.
>>They make for some very interesting reading!

>Odds are your library won't have them.

>Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. filed suit against "73, Inc., a
>foreign [not CA] Corporation, Spenser Whipple Jr.[Peter Stark] , Wayne
>Green, Virginia Londner Green, and Does 1 through 200, Inclusive"
>(where the Does were all employees of 73 Inc.).  The Superior Court of
>the State of California ruled, in judgement C 126265, that

I saw this article today and it stunned me.  Not only had I, as a long
time subscriber of 73, ever heard of the suit, but I was also
surprised that Wayne Green would take such a ruling laying down.  So I
picked up the phone and called 73 Magazine.  Talked to a "Linda".  She
brought Bill Brown, who is apparently the editor in chief into the
conversation.  There was one problem.  There has been so much turnover
at 73 that no one remembered much about the case.

After some research, the called me back.  They said that there was
indeed such a case that was limited strictly to the State of
California.  They said that someone remembered there being a letter
sent out to CA subscribers asking them to tear the pages out of their
magazines.  They could not remember whether or not the case was
appealed.  They stated that they were sure that the case never got
outside of CA.

Linda started to apologize (sp) for the article and I interrupted her
to explain that my interest was a First Amendment concern and not
about the content.  She then made a statement that stunned me.  She
said that they were not concerned about that aspect and in fact she'd
hate think that someone could publish the plans for an atomic bomb or
something without the government getting involved!  Can you believe
that?  Prior restraint endorsed by a publisher.  Oh well, the Bill of
Rights was nice while it lasted ....


John De Armond, WD4OQC   Radiation Systems, Inc. 
Atlanta, Ga              {emory,uunet}!rsiatl!jgd