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From: jim@mmsac.UUCP (Jim Lips Earl)
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Subject: Re: Phone Harassment
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Date: 16 Mar 90 22:10:31 GMT
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In-reply-to: benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM's message of 16 Mar 90 00:12:10 GMT


> I saw an interesting method of getting back at phone harrassers - It
> involves a car battery, a large capacitor, and some wiring thru your phone.
> I'm not gonna go into it, but if you go through a certain sequence, you can
> send a surge through Ma Bell's wires, straight into the offender's
> handset..........
 
That sounds hokey to me.  It is my understanding that there is no
"direct" connection from your phone thru the phone company to the
caller on the other end.  I think it goes thru several amplifiers and
limiting circuitry in between you and the caller.

Also, I know the phone company used to have "fuses" on each user's
phone "pair".  So if you hooked, say, 120vac across your phone line,
these fuses would blow, and you would be without service until the
phone company replaces the fuses.  I'm sure they'd be fairly pissed at
doing such a thing to their equipment, also.
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      Jim "Lips" Earl             UUCP: ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!mmsac!jim
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