Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!vector!nobody From: uevans@uncecs.edu (Elizabeth A. Evans) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Need a device to prevent outgoing toll calls Message-ID:Date: 6 Dec 88 12:46:21 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 196, message 5 In article phri!dasys1!patth@nyu.edu (Patt Haring) writes: >In article nobody@vector.UUCP writes: >>>Is there a device available which can be used to toll-restrict >>>long-distance calls? >>Why doesn't she just tell her daughter to stop running up the phone bill? It >>sounds to me like what she needs is to give her daughter a taste of some >>kind of punishment, not some gadget to prevent outgoing phone calls. This kind of device would be useful for more than parents restricting kids' access to toll telephone calls. We have a shared pool of modems available to our medical school network users. In order to prevent unauthorized toll-dialing by those users, we had to remove the ability to manually dial out -- if the needed telephone number doesn't exist in a list of numbers we think people will use, the users can't dial the number. It would be much nicer to let them dial other local numbers. -- Elizabeth A. Evans internet: uevans@med.unc.edu Office of Information Systems usenet: uevans@uncmed UNC-CH School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC