Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: FLINTON@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Fred E.J. Linton) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Do Network Interface Devices Make Fraud Easy? Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 10:04:44 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 21 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 168, Message 14 of 15 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: hub.eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu In article , peter@taronga.hackercorp. com (Peter da Silva) asks: > ... RJ11 plug ... RJ11 socket ... Why bother with a knife switch? Easy -- I had the socket and a knife switch, and _didn't_ have an RJ11 plug (leastwise not one I could fit on the ancient 8 gauge solid copper wires :-) ). And I can use alligator clips or test prods on the knife switch contacts for that rare time I want to use a VOM on the line -- I don't have any test prods fine enough to slither into the contact slots on an RJ11 plug. Or, as the Moderator noted, "it really comes down to ... style". Fred E.J. Linton Wesleyan U. Math. Dept. 649 Sci. Tower Middletown, CT 06457 E-mail: or Tel.: +1 203 776 2210 (home) or +1 203 347 9411 x2249 (work)