-I am quite convinced it was just meant to drive home the point that they were being serious about me changing the welcome message. I do not think there is any

-I am quite convinced it was just meant to drive home the point that they were being serious about me changing the welcome message. I do not think there is any legal way they could have severed my (well, my parents') phone service over such an issue - but then again, I had no desire to have to explain to my parents why the phone was dead, and promptly replaced the welcome with something along the lines of "This computer is so secret the DoD told the op not to ID it!" (Which, while rather flippant, was definitely true... Ah, the joys of being fifteen!)