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From: kraut@ut-ngp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit TrailBlazer overseas
Message-ID: <6676@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 05:18:36 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 31 05:18:36 1987
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Keywords: telebit trailblazer uucp overseas germany netherlands
Summary: it's worse than you can imagine


> I heard that Atari's modem (only 1200 baud) just recently got approved
> by the Bundepost (sp?) in Germany...does the post office in germany
> actually have that much say over what types of modems people use?

in Germany, you cannot connect ANYTHING to the phone-lines that isn't from the
Post Office.  An answering machine, even.  Phones are not plugged into an
outlet, but *HARD-WIRED* into a connecter which you are not not *ALLOWED*
to open.

Is this Atari modem conencted with an accoustic coupler (hard to believe at
1200 Baud) or how else?

PS:  when the Bundespost goes after you, think of the worst you have heard
	the IRS can do to people here.  We are talking jail and heavy fines,
	storming into your house, intimidation, harassment ....
	No, I didn't mean to say that the IRS ever does that ....
	now that I think about it (the Bundespost also monitors communications
	in close cooperation with the German NSA) ........
	... I didn't post this article ... ((-:

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