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From: gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul Gauthier)
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Subject: Re: *Long* Phone Calls -- What Does Ma Think?
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Date: 13 Nov 90 10:01:29 GMT
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In article <14595@accuvax.nwu.edu> amb@ai.mit.edu (Andrew M. Boardman)
writes:

[Why not make one *long* call rather than lease a line?]

>  - What would one's local phone company think of this?

  Many people have pointed out that the phone company would come after
you right quick with some concocted reason to make you lose any
advantage this scheme might have. If this is the case, why not simply
rig the software to break the connection once daily and then redial.
Maybe even less frequently depending on what duration the phone
company would find distressing.


PG