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From: vernon@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (Vernon King)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Wanted: Advise on a modem for my PC.
Message-ID: <4710012@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 18:17:35 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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   In regards to lightning strikes on phone lines. You may purchase a surge
protector for your phone line. It plugs into an ac socket and you plug your in
and out phone line into it. According to the instruction it shunts high voltage
to the ground plug in the ac socket. 

                                   Vernon