From: rdshydur@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9504261552.AA20154@carbonara.MIT.EDU>
To: wmansell@MIT.EDU
Cc: berlan@MIT.EDU, crimbite@MIT.EDU, rdshydur@MIT.EDU, rdshydur@fille.MIT.EDU
Subject: cc of my note to <crimbite> re non-operating mit lobby phones ...
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 11:52:09 EDT


good morning walter mansell -

i didn't know mitch wolfe had moved on, but i guess i'll
tell you myself that if you're legitimately short-handed
around telecomm these days, i'd like to pitch-in to help
get institute lobby phones working or components replaced
or entire instruments.

i was once, long ago, very interested in telephony, and
once-in-a-while i think: `i can fix this stuff!' ...
but of course i also assume there'd be a union snit if
you were to agree to mit people helping out.

however, in light of re-engineering, etc, i'll bet that
in future, recruiting old timers like me and students
might be not-so-far over-the-horizon.

telecomm systems in a place like this might even even make
for a prerty interesting AND useful undergraduate seminar
perhaps with mort berlan as seminar leader.

(maybe i'll cc this to dean travis merritt and mort
before i decide it's too futuristic :)

thanks for your help!

	- r
	  richard shyduroff
	  e15-443, x3-2000, h: 864-4039
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From: rdshydur@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9504261523.AA19482@carbonara.MIT.EDU>
To: crimbite@MIT.EDU (Cheryl deJong Vossmer)
Cc: rdshydur@MIT.EDU
Subject: broken institute phone's, was Re: Letter Bomb Announcement 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Apr 1995 10:53:04 EST."
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 11:23:26 EDT


good morning cheryl -

thanks for your important message.

i have one growing concern about finding more-and-more broken
_institute lobby_ phones in various well-travelled locations.

for _months_ the phone on the ground floor level of
the media lab, e15, aka: the weisner building, at 20 ames street,
has been non-operative.

for _weeks_ the phone at the intersection of buildings 5 & 1,
on the first floor, by the mass. ave. wheel chair lift, has
been non-operative.

and the other day i noted that the phone under the stair well
where buildings 8 and 16 meet, is also non-operative.

some time ago i mentioned the e15 phone to telecomm, and
i'm sure that as commencement season nears they'll all be fixed,
BUT, in light of precautions we should all be taking and
in case of heaven-forbid, any worse-possible-case situation
arising that would be faster reported if those telephone
instruments were functioning, i'd like to pass this request
onward through you personally because i think you can probably
get the work done instantly.

in case there is a legitimate too-high work load for
telecomm to be able to effect these repairs quickly, i'd like
to volunteer some extra hours-per-week to help telecomm
with replacing those instruments and getting them working
again, a.s.a.p.

maybe i'll send mitch wolfe a note to that effect.

hastily, but sincerely,

	- r
	  richard shyduroff
	  e15-443, x3-2000, h: 864-4039
.