From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:29:29 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Harasing whistlers (Was: UUCP mis-history?) In-Reply-To: <20170309150644.6735918C11B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20170309150644.6735918C11B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote: > Interesting: I've heard this same story, but told about TIPs and the > ARPANET. A computer at BBN was set up to regularly dial all the TIP > modem lines, to check that they were working. One line was always down, > so they listened in, and heard some human say "it's just that pevert > with the whistle again". > > I wonder which one was the original: anyone know for sure? Now that takes me back; urban myth, because the calling modem didn't squeak until the called modem did. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."