🚀 go-pugleaf

I am resigning as moderator of TELECOM effective immediately. TELECOM will
continue to exist, but will be moderated by Eliot Moore (ELMO@MIT-XX.ARPA).

Throughout TELECOM's 6 year history, I feel that I have met a really nice
and knowledgeable bunch of telephone professionals, and I feel that
TELECOM continues to play a vital role in network services, such as
helping ARPA contractors (and others) find their way around the 
telephone network, both through finding cost-competitive alternatives
to their present switching network, and through demonstrating their
networks to the public.

TELECOM has become more than just a q&a forum for people trying to
get set up in the telephone game, It's role in the divestiture of
AT&T was strong, explaining just what that meant for future telephone
service.

Questions from the simple "how do I connect my phone to the network",
to the complex "Find the lowest cost method of routing Internet packets",
to the informative "New England Telephone using DMS100 switching", have
all been a part of the TELECOM experience.

I will continue to read TELECOM, and stay on the sidelines and assist
Eliot with duties he is no stranger to in moderating mailing lists.
He has been the moderator of INFO-TERMS, and moderates INFO-IBMPC
as well.

I give a fond welcome to Eliot, and a fond farewell to TELECOM readers.

Cheers,
--JSol
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