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- From: reeves@ayauw.aosg.gsf.dec.com (Jon Reeves AOSG)
- Subject: Re: Alpha Prices -- Any Idea out there??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.220944.9269@aosg.gsf.dec.com>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:09:44 GMT
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- In article <BxMAwn.IK7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, schwartz@feh.scs.uiuc.edu (Dwight A. Schwartz) writes:
- [Dwight quoted my earlier statement:]
- |> > . ISDN with a "don't use this or you go to prison" sticker
- [And then asked:]
- |> I was wondering what this "don't use" comment means?
-
- Well, since I raised the issue, I better quote the sticker in full.
-
- This customer equipment has no AUSTEL permit and may be dangerous or damage a
- telecommunications network. Connection to a telecommunications network is an
- offense under Section 253 of the Telecommunications Act 1991 and may attract a
- maximum fine of $12,000.
-
- (So it seems my memory exaggerated a bit; it's really "don't use this or you pay
- a juicy fine".)
-
- The owner's manual also says, on the labeled picture of the back panel:
-
- 9. ISDN port Currently not in use.
-
- There's also a black foam rubber thing jammed into the ISDN socket.
-
- I gather all this to mean that one or more of {software, hardware, certification
- testing} has not yet been completed. I'm not sure what AUSTEL is -- Australia?
- -- but since I don't have an ISDN hookup in my office anyway, I don't much care.
-