Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!netsys!vector!nobody From: Miguel_Cruz@ub.cc.umich.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: (none) Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 88 08:25:54 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu (TELECOM Digest Coordinator) X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 167, message 4 First, in response to Alex Odyniec's recording question: I recently spoke with a lawyer about that very question (at least the first one). Here's how I now understand it... You are free to tape a phone conversation as long as the ONLY people who ever hear or can hear the tape are people who were privy to the conversation in the first place; you can listen to the tape and transcribe it at your leisure, or send it to the person you were talking to, but that's it... What I don't know is if that's the actual legal (i.e., on the books) rule or if it's just what's accepted by the courts for reasons of practicality. But here's my real question. I have a 5-line Touch-Matic phone, and removed the end of the 50-pin plug and connected my (our) two phone lines to the first 2 line buttons, by trial and error. I also took out one of the little triangular things in the button mechanism so I can conference with two lines at once. But I would really like for it to ring on either line. I haven't been able to get it to do that except in a way that when you're on one line and a call comes in on the other, you hear horrible clicking in the earpiece. Is there a way around this? Thanks, Miguel Cruz Miguel_Cruz@ub.cc.umich.edu