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From: danj1@ihlpa.att.com (Daniel Jacobson)
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Subject: Re: Leaving Brief Messages With Free Collect Calls
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Date: 26 Aug 90 13:13:59 GMT
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>[Moderator's Note: [...] you have still managed to deliver a message
>even by using coded words [...] They want to be paid for the message
>they delivered.

Are there any cases of people using the utterly cheapskate idea of
sending morse code via ring length to the other party?
{\Law_Abiding_Tone=on One would hope that telcos can detect this so us
regular folks' phone bills aren't subsidising all night (1 baud?)
style communication. } 


Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM +1 708 979 6364


[Moderator's Note: Regardless of the exact methods used, whenever the
telephone service is manipulated to deliver a coded message -- be it
by a certain ringing pattern; coded messages unwittingly delivered by
the operator; or whatever -- telco says a message has been delivered.
If they cannot prove that is what you did -- or can't conveniently
prove it -- then of course they write it off. But these techniques are
as old as the phone itself, and telco knows all the tricks.  PAT]