On Fri 01 Nov at 16:19 David Drummond (3:640/305{at}fidonet) wrote to Steven Anderson:

 DD> Steven, at 18:17 on Oct 28 1996, you wrote to David Drummond 

DD>> The Austel addendum to my Courier manual says that the 
DD>> use of B1 will rende the modem non-approved.  To dial 
DD>> out forcing HST requires B1 to be set (as opposed to 
DD>> the authorised B0).

SA> Good thing i never got that page then! :)

 DD> Ignorance of the law is NO excuse.

 DD> David

Austel refuse to do anything about clarifying that the B1 only applies to
ANSWERING CALLS, so the problem is between whomever was responsible for
homologation and Austel, and IMAO no-one could be convicted for using B1 as
a dial string as long as the modem didn't answer with B1.


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