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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: FCC doing it again...
Message-ID: <11745@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Dec 89 17:11:05 GMT
References: <1989Nov28.011514.4193@virtech.uucp> <246@cfa.HARVARD.EDU> <11198@csli.Stanford.EDU> <Nov.30.13.56.28.1989.10845@pilot.njin.net> <11721@smoke.BRL.MIL> <572@colorado.Morgan.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <572@colorado.Morgan.COM> perry@Morgan.COM (Perry Metzger) writes:
>>notify the phone company when you attach a modem to the line?
>Ever try actually calling them up to tell them?

Yes, every time I attach a modem to the line.
Mostly it's the ringer equivalent that matters,
because it may require tweaking of the current generator on the local loop.