Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Clayton Cramer Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Phone Book Message-ID: <12764@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 28 Sep 90 22:16:39 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 22 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 692, Message 5 of 6 In article <12711@accuvax.nwu.edu>, djcl@contact.uucp (woody) writes: > * {Ramparts Magazine} printed instructions on how to build a "mute > box" (something to suppress call supervision on incoming long distance > calls). While Ramparts was in rather illegal territory with that > article, the actions Ma Bell took were probably the issue here. Bell > agents were ordered to find all extant copies of the offending > {Ramparts Magazine}, trying to get the subscription lists, going after > newsstand dealers, threatening any radio stations that mentioned the > action, etc. My mother was working for Los Angeles County Library at the time the Ramparts article appeared; orders came down from the top to cut out the offending article and destroy it. But she made a copy first and brought it home. (Not that we ever did anything with it -- she just felt uncomfortable having stuff disappear into "the memory hole"). Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!