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From: mayer@rochester.UUCP (Jim Mayer)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone Rate Hike - Pacific Bell
Message-ID: <10892@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:07:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: rocheste.10892
Posted: Tue Aug  6 11:07:05 1985
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Reply-To: mayer@rochester.UUCP (Jim Mayer)
Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
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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. It starts the deck everytime the phone is off
>hook and records the conversation. Great for practicing paranoids who want
>to see what their baby sitters and employees are really up to. If this device
>	...
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'm
not sure if this is just true of most states, or if it is true
everywhere except the District of Columbia :-)... (or maybe) :-(.

-- Jim Mayer					University of Rochester
(arpa) mayer@Rochester.ARPA			Department of Computer Science
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