Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: US West and the War on Drugs Message-ID: <6377@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 13 Apr 90 17:51:29 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 21 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 253, Message 5 of 9 Clayton Cramer writes: > Don't laugh -- last year a Congresswoman from Maryland introduced a > bill that would make it a 3-year prison sentence for selling, renting, > or lending a pager to someone under 21. I think US West (by installing rotary phones) and our congresscritters (as mentioned above) are going about this all wrong. Without incurring the ire of anyone except possibly the curmugeons reading this forum, the area could be declared a "COCOT Zone" and only COCOTs would be allowed there. This would effectively prevent any useful communications to or from any drug dealers. I don't know how many times a COCOT has prevented me from checking my voice mail. The same roadblocks would also prevent activation of pagers! John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !