Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: rpw3%rigden.wpd@sgi.com (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: US West and the War on Drugs Message-ID: <6326@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Apr 90 10:40:03 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Rob Warnock Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 20 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 250, Message 8 of 11 In article <6248@accuvax.nwu.edu> telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: | US West in Minneapolis is taking a technological leap backward in an | effort to fight the drug problem in that community. | What they have done is replaced touch-tone pay phones with rotary dial | models at about eighteen locations in Minneapolis and St. Paul to make | it harder for drug dealers to conduct business with telephone pagers. Minutely harder, maybe. But I've carried a Radio-Shack tone generator pad in my briefcase for years (to pick up messages from my home answering machine). You hold it to the mike and DTMF all you like. At a mere $20.00 (several years ago, gotta be cheaper now), the price isn't gonna stop anyone who wants one... Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510 rpw3@sgi.com rpw3@pei.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)335-1673 Protocol Engines, Inc. 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94039-7311