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From: andree@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Modem Users Beware: BELL 5959$ - (nf)
Message-ID: <3420@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Oct-83 01:08:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 25 01:08:59 1983
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uokvax!andree    Oct 22 16:47:00 1983

First, and most importantly, the OK tarriff is now off. The person who raised
most of the fuss (Robert Braver) wasn't being charged for `modem use' when
the FBI came and took his computer away. According to him, SWB told him and
several national magazines that they weren't going to be charging special
rates to home modem users in the future. This is probably due to them getting
metered rates in the last tarriff.

For mark's information, the tarriff didn't actually say anything about
`modems' per se. It reffered to things with `computing' capability, or
`store and forward' capability. Since the people involved were all using
pc's to talk to their modem, and having a direct-connect modem was part
of the deal, it naturally got translated to the `Oklahoma Modem Users
Group' when we organized to fight it.

	<mike