From: Xavier Man <mrman@mybutt.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:49:47 -0800 (PST)
To: Ken Williams <jkwilli2@unity.ncsu.edu>
Subject: Re: bugged?
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Ascend MAX 4000/4002/4004/etc units running certain code versions emit a
"burp" tone  before they initiate carrier.  If your friends ISP is using
these, then he shouldn't have much to worry about.  A quick way to test
would be to just call up the ISP and ask, though that's a little obvious.
What you can do is go to a payphone and make a call to the ISPs dialup
number and see if it emits the tone then.  If it does, I'd go ahead and
make you next call to the ISP.  Just give some poor schmuck in tech
support a hard time and find out what equipment they use for the dialin
pool.  If it's Ascend, then that's your problem.

Mr. Man - mrman@mybutt.com

On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Ken Williams wrote:

> anybody have any ideas here?  this is a personal email forwarded to me
> from a friend who *might* have cause to believe he is bugged.  this is
> coming from a .au domain, btw.
> 
> thanx,
> 
> TATTOOMAN
> 
> http://152.7.11.38/~tattooman
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:41:23 +0930
> From: XXX@XXX.XXX
> To: jkwilli2@unity.ncsu.edu
> Subject: PGP
> 
> Yo tat,
> 
> I got pgp 5.0. which will not work with your version. Upgrade man :-)
> 
> Oh well I'll tell ya without pgp. It's not that much of a problem the
> question I wanted to ask you (well I hope it's not).
> 
> Anyway, what I wanted to ask you is whether you might know why I'm getting
> a very DISTINCTIVE beep when I connect with my modem to my ISP. The
> beep(only once) comes just after the initial dialup and just before all the
> noise you get before the connection. 
> 
> Sounds wierd and it only started 2 days ago. I never heard a connection
> like this before and I'm wondering whether my phone line is being tapped. 
> 
> Any suggestions ??
> 
> XXXXX
> 
> P.S. Just in case my mail is being read by someone other than
> Tattooman..here's to you (_|_)
> 
>