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From: ron_b@apollo.COM (Ronald Buttiglieri)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: How can I restrict outgoing phone calls?
Message-ID: <43afec9f.16321@apollo.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 89 12:05:00 GMT
References: <778@tetons.UUCP> <244@csense.UUCP> <2437@rayssdb.ray.com> <4814@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: ron_b@apollo.COM (Ronald Buttiglieri)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <4814@ptsfa.PacBell.COM> dmt@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner) writes:
>In article <2437@rayssdb.ray.com> iws@rayssdb.ray.com (Ihor W. Slabicky) writes:
>>In article <244@csense.UUCP>, bote@csense.UUCP (John Boteler) writes:
>>Buy a touchtone phone, take out or disconnect
>>the touchtone pad, and hook up the phone to the 
>>line.  You'll be able to receive all the calls
>>you want, but can't dial out.
>
>But what happens if I go to Radio Shack and buy a "Low-Cost Pocket
>Tone Dialer" for $14.95?
>
>Won't the tones still dial out-going calls?
>


***We interrupt this thread for some trivial bit of information****

I don't know how many know this (for all I know, everyone does :^) but a
very simple way to make any TouchTone (tm?) phone (note, if it's pulse switchable,
all bets are off!) not able to dial out, simply reverse the red and green
wires (easiest to access them in the wall jack). You will hear a dialtone when
you lift the handset, but when you press the buttons, you don't loose the dial-
tone.

Actually, I haven't tried it with the more modern phones (last I did this was
3 or 4 years ago), I don't know if the newer ones are still affected. If
someone finds that they are not, please let me (maybe the net, too) know.

Ron
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