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From: wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner)
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Subject: Re: Leaving Brief Messages With Free Collect Calls
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Date: 14 Sep 90 03:11:13 GMT
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In article <11999@accuvax.nwu.edu> bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.
washington.edu (Jeff Carroll) writes:

# In article <11658@accuvax.nwu.edu> wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner)
# writes:

#>(For the record, I should state that I have a Panasonic Easa-Phone.
#>Another thing I don't like about it is that it has a two-digit
#>security code. Now, how hard would it be for some phone phreak to
#>break into my phone machine and start listening to messages with a
#>two-digit security code, fa' Pete's sake? Not hard at all.

# Awww. *My* answering machine only has a *one* digit security
# code. Of course if some phreak were to do something like this,
# wouldn't you be immediately aware of it?

Nope. I assume you mean that the unlistened-to-messages counter would
be reset to zero, and I'd hear a message next time I checked the tape
that I'd never heard before, even though the "message waiting" light
wasn't flashing.

But the Panasonic does not resent the counter to zero when you listen
to the messages over the phone.

#>(Of course, the real challenge, once said phone phreak has broken into
#>my phone machine and heard my messages, would be to remain awake.... )

#	That's what Gary Hart said too, isn't it ? :^)

Yes, but *I* have nothing to hide. Why, I *invite* you to follow me
around for a weekend while I hold... um... in-depth staff meetings
with my secretary in a secluded Washington townhouse....


Mitch Wagner

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