Newsgroups: sci.electronics
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Pay Telephone at Home
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.034843.6483@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul10.180944.12143@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1990Jul12.143201.2416@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 90 03:48:43 GMT

In article <1990Jul12.143201.2416@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> wehmer@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (James Wehmer) writes:
>	My current problem is how to regulate the local calls now that we
>must pay for every call.  I want a system where the kid must go to some
>central location, put a nickle into a box...

Have you considered just telling the kids "okay, you can afford your own
phone now"?  (Not just an extension, but their own line, that they pay for.)
That will solve most of these problems much more simply.
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