Re: DOV on PM3 (was modem calls to PM3 with no modems)
Karl Denninger (karl@Mcs.Net)
Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:05:16 -0500
On Wed, Aug 06, 1997 at 11:05:45AM -0400, Stephen Zedalis wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Richard_R.Moore wrote:
>
> >> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:34:38 -0700 (PDT)
> >> From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
> >> To: Stephen Zedalis <tintype@exis.net>
> >> cc: Joe Brewer <joe@admin.net1.net>, portmaster-users@livingston.com,
> >> joe@Net1.Net
> >> Subject: Re: modem calls to PM3 with no modems
> >> Reply-To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
> >>
> >>
> >> I hate all these DOV "features". I want a way to disable all this DOV
> >> crap on the PM3. I said this 6 months ago too...
> >>
> >> Tom
>
> I also wanted an option to turn this "feature" off.
>
> >You may hate it, but in michigan ameritech territory DOV can save a business
> >many hundreds of dollars in a year.
>
> Until they catch you... Here in Virginia, Bell Atlantic and GTE both use
> traffic monitors on their lines. If they catch you using DOV and you are
> paying residential and/or voice-only rates, you get socked with the normal
> data rate you should have paid plus a penalty. If Ameritech looks the
> other way great. But several providers in our area learned the lesson the
> hard way.
Someone ought to sue. That looks pretty clearly illegal.
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