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[Mike McNally]

Lucky Green writes:
 > Most telephones can be used to monitor conversations in the room they are
 > installed in even while on-hook. No need to ever enter the premises. Just
 > drive it with AC.  Look at your basic telephone diagram and remember
 > Xc=1/(omega*C) from your AC circuits class.

The phrase "most telephones" may have been accurate when it meant "500
sets", but now that people generally own electronic phones I wonder
whether the lucky one's statement remains true.  (It might; I'm an
electronics ignoramus.)

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