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From: john@hp-pcd.UUCP (john)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone Rate Hike - Pacific Bell
Message-ID: <69600027@hp-pcd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 11:55:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 11:55:00 1985
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Nf-From: hp-pcd!john    Aug  2 07:55:00 1985

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<
< Unfortunately, I don't have a "phone meter" out at the side of my house.
< You have to take the word of the phone company that I've talked as much as
<  they say I have.  Which is to say, I have to trust their computer. :-)
<

  Why don't we have phone meters? Imagine a device that you plug into your
phone line and monitors your home phone. It would log every time the phone
were off hook and possibly decode the numbers that you dial. It could even
indicate when the phone rang so you could see if anyone was trying to call
while you were out. Great way to keep tabs on the phone Co.

  I have seen a device that plugs into the phone line and controls a
standard cassette tape deck. It starts the deck everytime the phone is off
hook and records the conversation. Great for practicing paranoids who want
to see what their baby sitters and employees are really up to. If this device
had a real time clock time stamp recorded on the tape then it could be used
to meter your phone.


John Eaton
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