Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: res@cblpe.att.com (Robert E Stampfli) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Beeps During Conversation Recording Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 89 14:29:12 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: res@cbnews.ATT.COM (Robert E. Stampfli,55216,cb,1C315,6148604268) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 21 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 514, message 3 of 11 >> >[The only "drawbacks" to certain Panasonic answering machines is] >> >the annoying beep during 2-Side-Conversation-Recording. >> As for the beep while recording a conversation, well, it may be >> annoying, but in the United States it is the law. Does the Panasonic beep more than once when recording a call as an answering machine? I know of no models that claim to do that. Legally, it would seem to me that this would still technically be a case of "recording a conversation", even if it is automated and one-sided. If it is truly a Federal law, why doesn't it apply in this case as well? Rob Stampfli / att.com!stampfli (uucp@work) / kd8wk@w8cqk (packet radio) 614-864-9377 / osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu!kd8wk!res (uucp@home) [Moderator's Note: It is 'recording a conversation', however your outgoing tape message informs the caller (in so many words) that his 'conversation' is being taped; his continuing to speak at that point would seem to imply his knowledge of and consent to the recording. It is the *knowledge and consent* that is required -- not the beeps. PT]