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From: AWalker@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (*Hobbit*)
Newsgroups: mod.telecom
Subject: Polarity reversal
Message-ID: <12169375745.22.AWALKER@RED.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 06:37:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 23 06:37:30 1985
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*No* central office should reverse your polarity upon call completion 
anymore.  This sometimes happens on operator-assisted calls, but your polarity
should remain exactly the same on a direct-dial call.  Bitch *loudly* at
your GTE technical people.  Furthermore, a polarity "guard" is nothing more
than a bridge rectifier which can be had at your local Shaft for 99 cents.
There is nothing wrong with your phone...

_H*
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