Re: International scam thread

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

Brian Hammack (brian.hammack@rook.wa.com) wrote:
:  Tilghman spewed forth:

:    | charged for hundreds of minutes of long distance : to Moldova even
:    | if they left the BBS immediately.

: They have BBSs in Moldovia?  :)

Well, the Internet is really just a humongous, multi-computer BBS.

: [Pardon, I'm just chuckling over the Iraqi press calling the Internet an
: American plot to rule the world, etc. on Headline News -- always noting
: at the end of the segment that there are *no* ISP's in Iraq.]

Well, at least they're consistent unlike certain politicians in THIS
country ("Just Say No").

:    | special viewer for your computer.  Actually, it *secretly*
:    | disconnected the local ISP and *secretly* dialed the international

: What, you didn't hear the click?  What, you have "ATM0" in your init??

No, there's a potentiometer on the side of my modem which allows me to
manually control the volume from my modem (none of the preset L1, L2, L3
crap).  USR Sportster:  cool idea.

And since the radio is on, I usually can't hear a click anyway.

:  LV| And for most people, the modem just is a box with blinking lights.

: Except for the internal users, where it's IN the box with the lights. :)

:    | It's unlikely they would've noticed the dialin, except if their
:    | modem had an external volume control on the signal (like my USR
:  LV| And even then, I usually keep the volume turned off...

: I confess to having "ATM3" in my init string so I don't have to hear the
: modem dial, but I also have "ATL1" on the Hayes Smartmodem on my //e and
: the volume on my USR Sportster set at classroom-voice level on my GS so
: that once it is done dialing I can hear if the other end is ringing!

I only turn up the volume if it hasn't connected by the time I've
expected it to connect.

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