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From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Emergency listening provisions
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Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 16:01:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 11 16:01:34 1985
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Nf-From: wdl1!jbn    Nov 11 12:31:00 1985

>	Well, I have heard that the ROLM system we have here has an option
> for "authorized persons" to listen in on the goings on in, for example, a
> laboratory in which something violent is going on (explosions, fire, trapped
> personnel, etc.) even though the phones are "on hook". 

     That's very suspicious.  It gives new meaning to the May, 1985 page
of the ROLM calendar:

	``WE HAVE TROUBLE LETTING GO''

	``We call most of the 17,000 ROLM systems we've sent into the world
every single day.  When it says ROLM, it's still our baby.''

					John Nagle