From: TURTLE              
To: KNIGHT OWL          
Subject: phone lines    
Date & Time: 02/09/91 17:36:49
Message Number 12038

>He connected a phone to listen, and he says there's a hum of some
>sort.
 
Welcome him to the wonderful world of institutional Fascism, then..he's
being tapped. The modem won't pick up the phone most likely because the
tap has caused a drop in line voltage that's large enough that his modem
can't detect the ring signal. Using a different modem might help; he
can also bitch at GTE, but that probably won't accomplish anything.