Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!mstan!perry From: perry@Morgan.COM (Perry Metzger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: FCC doing it again... Message-ID: <572@colorado.Morgan.COM> Date: 4 Dec 89 18:24:20 GMT References: <1989Nov28.011514.4193@virtech.uucp> <246@cfa.HARVARD.EDU> <11198@csli.Stanford.EDU> <11721@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: perry@Morgan.COM (Perry Metzger) Organization: Morgan Stanley and Co., NY, NY Lines: 19 Warning: This has gotten WAY off the original topic, and has nothing to do with unix-wizardry any more. Lets move it somewhere else, shall we? 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? Ever try actually calling them up to tell them? I know that some places are set up for it, but I have tried several times to inform New Jersey Bell of the ringer equivalence number of equipment I have hooked up to the line and, law or no law, they have no idea what I am talking about or how to record the data. For the most part, the phone companies don't actually record the information they lobbied so hard to require that they get. It would cost too much to add a way to record it to the network operations systems. Perry