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From: uevans@uncecs.edu (Elizabeth A. Evans)
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Subject: Re: Need a device to prevent outgoing toll calls
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Date: 6 Dec 88 12:46:21 GMT
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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