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From: gregk@ubvax.UB.Com (Greg Kendall)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.misc,sci.misc,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Telephone privacy gadgets
Message-ID: <23651@ubvax.UB.Com>
Date: 16 Oct 89 23:51:24 GMT
References: <799@mccall.uucp>
Reply-To: gregk@ubvax.ub.com.UUCP (Greg Kendall)
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In article <799@mccall.uucp> tp@mccall.uucp (Terry Poot) writes:
>I have no idea where to post this!
>
>There are gadgets one can put on a telephone that purport to tell you if
>the conversation is being recorded. Does anyone know if they work?

There was a long discusion of this point on another group a while back.
The long and short of it was, NO, they don't work, because of day to day
variations in tx lines, etc, etc.