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From: cjh@ihuxr.UUCP (C. J. Holzwarth)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Modem Users Beware: BELL $$$
Message-ID: <711@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Oct-83 19:27:11 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 15 19:27:11 1983
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The question of how the phone co will know that you are using a modem is
a good one. They can monitor your line and find out. If they should do this
though they are breaking several federal laws. Monitoring the information
being transmitted on a telephone line is also known as wire tapping. There
are also laws reguarding invasion of privacy. The only legal way of obtaining
information about modem use is when someone complains that their modem doesn't
work of requesting a court order for a wire tap of the population of the city.

As far as paying for connect time, I'll pay for my connect time if everyone
else has to, but if I don't want to pay for a data line and am willing to
live with data transmission over a voice line, I shouldn't have to pay for
the data line.

		1984 isn't fat off,
		C. J. Holzwarth
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