Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> writes:

At 01:54 PM 2/10/96 EST, you wrote:

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It's not difficult to imagine that governments will seek to regulate the possession of modems again. Some may recall that in the U.S. it used to be technically illegal to connect a modem to the phone jack without a permissio from AT&T.

Actually, permission from the local phone companies, who owned the system, I assume? (Though I don't actually remember which parts of The Phone Company were involved in the Carterphone decision.)

Nope. I used modems back when the local phone company _was AT&T. :-) --- Dr. Dimitri Vulis Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps