[plug] Linux support for schools

[Mike from West Australia]

At 12:48 AM 6/9/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>> > Perhaps Matt, or someone similar, could clarify this?
>> 
>> I thought he was more referring to Telstra being annoyed at connections
>> being redialed every second, therefore unnecessarily tying up lines.
>
>There was (I don't know about now) rules about how quickly you could redial a
>modem if the called number was busy. The timing sucked pretty bad, something 
>like wait x seconds between the first 3 attempts, then wait 10x seconds
>between further attempts.

Yes and I believe its under the umbrella of the Australian COmmunications
Authority (ACA) - which has powers under the National Securities Act - or
some such equivalent federal statute.

This (in theory) means the ACA can enter your home at any time without
notice and pwoer to detain, seize goods etc. They have rather more power
then the State Police and the Australian Protective Service - formerly
the Federal Police...

Rgds

Mike