Not that SiriusXM needs any more bad publicity, but now they are ticking off some of their most loyal customers by promising included access to higher-quality on-line streams and then not delivering. While the reason is as yet unclear, there seem to be two possible yet mutually-exclusive possibiliti...

Some moron is using the OTR Digest’s -request address as the envelope sender for some porn spam. While only people without a clue would blame the Digest for sending this stuff, it is causing a mild problem because some mis-configured systems (HINT: Hotmail) are bouncing the mail after the SMTP tra...

I compare XM Halloween programming from last year to Sirius programming this year...man, are satellite radio subscribers screwed......

It's hard to sit down and describe the 2008 Friends of Old-Time Radio convention in a few words...so I'll use a whole bunch more....

From Ars Technica: NY attorney general gets more ISPs to block alt.* newsgroups Ars Technica checks out the new website, designed more as a promotion for Andrew Cuomo than anything to remove child pornography. Again, this is a good deal for the ISPs, since they can stop providing USENET services to ...

Verizon pretends to do something about child pornography, while in actuality saving money and screwing its customers. Yippee....

Dick Martin, Who Rode ‘Laugh-In’ to Fame, Dies at 86....

I really screwed up - this was sent to me weeks ago, and ended up being blocked by the spam filters. Better late than never, here is a registration form for those interested in attending the 2008 SPERDVAC Convention......

To AOL users; apologies, but the boneheads at AOL are again rejecting The Digest as spam. This is getting really old, and there’s nothing I can do about it. The only suggestion I can make is that, now that AOL is no longer an ISP and is instead just another advertiser-supported free email service,...