Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tove.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!tove!dsn 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 Article-I.D.: tove.308 Posted: Tue Aug 6 20:40:16 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 02:22:48 EDT References: <1845@amdahl.UUCP> <69600027@hp-pcd.UUCP> <10892@rochester.UUCP> Reply-To: dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 22 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 ARPA: dsn@maryland CSNet: dsn@umcp-cs UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!dsn Phone: (301) 454-7932