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From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Device to "Lock In" a Harrassing Call?
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In ont.general, in a discussion on harrassing phone calls (and Caller ID),
L.J.Dickey (ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu) writes:

>  The phone company can install a device that will, on command,
>  "lock in" the caller, so that, even after the caller hangs up,
>  the phones are still connected.

I recall reading about such a device myself, but it was in Reader's
Digest and more than 10 years ago.  I don't believe I've ever seen it
mentioned here on comp.dcom.telecom.  Given what I have learned here
about the wide variations between switches, I'd conjecture that the
device exists, but only for some types of switch.  Would I be right?


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