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echo: consumer_report
to: BOB GEARHART
from: BILL MITCHELL
date: 1998-01-18 10:32:00
subject: PHONE LINES

 BG>  ringing current on party lines.  The green wire is the tip and the red
 BG>  wire is the ring.  The names come from their position on telephone jack
Trivia... Here in Jersey it's red tip green ring.
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