Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!think!think.com!barmar From: barmar@think.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: FCC doing it again... Message-ID: <31848@news.Think.COM> Date: 1 Dec 89 05:40:37 GMT References: <1989Nov28.011514.4193@virtech.uucp> <246@cfa.HARVARD.EDU> <11198@csli.Stanford.EDU> <11721@smoke.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA Lines: 17 In article <11721@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >or were you unaware that FCC tariffs require you to >notify the phone company when you attach a modem to the line? I thought the only thing you were required to give to the phone company when attaching a device to a phone line was the ringer equivalence number. And I think this requirement went away a few years ago, when owners were given possession of the lines within the building. Now it's the phone company's responsibility to safeguard their lines against whatever the user might attach, and we don't have to tell them what we're doing. Modem manuals used to include instructions to call the phone company, but the last modem I got didn't. Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar