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From: dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone Rate Hike - Pacific Bell
Message-ID: <308@tove.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 20:40:16 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 20:40:16 1985
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Reply-To: dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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In article <10892@rochester.UUCP> mayer@rochester.UUCP (Jim Mayer) writes:
>In article <69600027@hp-pcd.UUCP> john@hp-pcd.UUCP (john) writes:
>><<<
>>< Unfortunately, I don't have a "phone meter" out at the side of my house.
>>	...
>>  I have seen a device that plugs into the phone line and controls a
>>standard cassette tape deck. ...
>>	...
>If I remember correctly, such a device is also quite illegal.  I
>believe that any device that records phone conversations is supposed to
>emit a periodic "beep" to let people know they are being recorded. ...

I read somewhere that it's legal to record from phone lines without a beep
as long as the recording device is coupled to the line acoustically rather than
electronically.  In fact, I suspect that that's how telephone answering
machines manage to record messages legally without beeping periodically.
Can anyone confirm this?
-- 

Dana S. Nau,  Computer Science Dept.,  U. of Maryland,  College Park, MD 20742
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