At 11:27 PM -0400 9/25/01, James K. Lowden wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:56:51PM +0000, oinkfreebiker@att.net wrote:
>>  My only test, so far, has been to get an ear-full of fax
>>  noise when I "dial-in" via the finger-on-buttons method.
>>  So I guess that mgetty works.
>
>Not really.  Those noises you hear are just the modem telling the
>caller it's there, waiting to talk to another modem.  Depeding on how
>it's configured, you could make your modem do that without even
>connecting it to the computer.

Yeah, but modems are NOT set to auto-answer by default...otherwise 
half of the people in the US wouldn't be able to answer their phones 
without unplugging their modems, since most people wouldn't know how 
to turn off that feature.

Mike
Bikers don't *DO* taglines.