-=> Quoting Nathan Bollinger to Andy Ulrich <=-
>I don't know if I should give any of the government pinhead's and idea, but
>as far as I know it is illegal to listen to cordless phone freq's and
>conversations but if they wanted to do some thing about it they would have
>made it illegal to have the freq's programed into a scanner. You see they
>want
>pacify those who wanted the scanner enthusiast stopped but not enough to
>put teeth in the law. So the passed some more feel good legislation that
>made
>bad law.
NB> They just don't want everyone driving to Canada to buy scanners. It's
NB> still legal there. Besides, cordless phones can be picked up on a baby
NB> monitor. You want to outlaw those, too?
The hole thing makes me sick. The goofy law makers just had to make a law for
the bone heads that didn't realize they were basically talking on a radio.
Isn't there a FCC reg that states if your cordless phone interferes with
someone else's electronic equipment that you must discontinue it's use?
___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR]
--- QScan/WC v1.19b / 01-0565
---------------
* Origin: INTERGALACTIC INFORMATION BBS 937-379-2832 (1:108/515)
|