Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Twas the night before Xmas, and our modem ripped us off
Message-ID: <3633@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 03:10:56 GMT
References: <1839@kontron.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 15

In article <1839@kontron.UUCP> brad@kontron.UUCP (Brad Yearwood) writes:
> 
> Question is, does anybody make any sort of cheap sanity timer that can
> be interposed between a modem and the phone line?  Just something simple
> and utterly reliable to go back on-hook after a selectable time (1, 2, 3
> hours) off-hook would not bother typical legitimate uucp transfers, but
> would prevent senseless waste like the above.

I seem to recall some sort of thingie along these lines in the
"Black Box Catalog"...

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {uunet|ihnp4|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)