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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Phones that go chirp in the night
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Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 00:04:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  4 00:04:15 1984
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> The question is, why does that same chirp sometimes occur spontaneously,
> usually in the middle of the night?

I hesitate to bring this up, but your description of this "chirp" sounds
oddly familiar to me.  Was it in some piece of fiction or non-fiction that
I read about the supposed ability of certain authorities to listen in on
private telephones even when they were on the hook, the chief drawback
being a faint but audible click as the eavesdropper made the connection?

I suspect that it must have been fiction -- this doesn't sound like a
very probable explanation.  (Just my typical 1984 paranoia, I suppose.)

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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