Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ptsfa!well!rab From: rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Pending FCC ruling threat to modem users Message-ID: <2262@well.UUCP> Date: Sat, 27-Dec-86 05:43:10 EST Article-I.D.: well.2262 Posted: Sat Dec 27 05:43:10 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Dec-86 08:37:14 EST References: <1572@brl-adm.ARPA> <3454@curly.ucla-cs.UCLA.EDU> <403@pixar.UUCP> <1496@kitty.UUCP> Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 20 Keywords: modems, bandwidth, carrier, sex (no, not really) In a previous article, Larry Lippman writes: > There is no bandwith allocation scheme being used by an operating > telephone company that is somehow defeated by a modem. [note: mucho context deleted] It is my understanding that long-distance calls may be (and frequently are) switched in mid-call between available circuits by automatic equipment. I am also informed that some of this equipment is designed to disable if the channel to be switched is carrying a modem tone. (Because the switchover can take long enough to cause older modem designs to lose carrier lock.) Thus, a modem call could inhibit some of the normal adaptability and flexibility of a network. -- Robert Bickford {hplabs, ucbvax, lll-lcc, ptsfa, msudoc}!well!rab terrorist cryptography DES drugs cipher secret decode NSA CIA NRO IRS coke crack pot LSD russian missile atom nuclear assassinate libyan RSA The above is food for the NSA line eater. Add it to your .signature and you too can help overflow the NSA's ability to scan all traffic going in or out of the USA looking for "significant" words. (This is not a joke, sadly.)