On 12-15-96 Bill Newman wrote to Glenn Fetty... 
 
 BN>  BF>  Again: 
 BN>  BF>         IT'S ILLEGAL (BY THE ECPA) TO LISTEN TO CORDLESS PHONES. 
 BN>  GF>  BF> 
 BN>  GF>  BF> 
 BN>  GF>  BF> 
 BN>  BF> Bill Funk 
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 BN>  BF> ... Did I make myself clear? Good, tell me what I said 
 BN>  BF> --- Via Silver Xpress V4.00 SW12853 
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 BN>  GF> Hi Bill! 
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 BN>  GF> Wasn't that done in 1994?  And the cell-mod scanners banned at 
 BN> the 
 BN>  GF> same time? 
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 BN> Are you sure that the ammendment went through? I thought that it 
 BN> got vetoed as the radio industry was up in arms about it. It 
 BN> would have meant that any scanner would have been illegal as the 
 BN> monitoring of police and fire was also in the admentment. 
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 BN> ... Bill Newman -- Rochester, NY -- wtnewman@rochgte.fidonet.org 
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 BN> --- PPoint 2.00 
 
It passed.  It amended the ECPA of 1986, which banned cell listening, to 
include cell-capable scanners.  There is also a law banning people from 
listening to cordless phones.  But police and fire scanning have always 
been lega, despite some attempts to ban it..... 
 
Glenn 
 
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