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I don't know if any of you guys are old enough to remember the early days of BBS systems, long before the internet became available, when AT&T was The Phone Company and there was no other.
If you connected a modem to your phone line to dial into a BBS service and they found out about it they added a $50 a month charge to your phone bill. This was in the days when a typical phone bill was less than $10 a month. That went on for a lot of years until laws were changed to prevent it.
Most people with modems never got caught. Some did and they could pay or lose their phone line. I knew of a few people that it happened to.
Barry
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