>Who knows which came first, but the scmucks at the local level bought >into the flawed idea that only way anyone could get cable is if they >gave the cableco a monpoly to recoup the costs of laying the cable. >The infrastructure has long been installed and costs long ago >recovered, but even now, as in the case in Monkey County MD, you can >sell cable services only if the powers that be magnanimously deign to >allow you to do so, as was the case with Verizon.
That was realistically true back in 1970. But as recently covered in our RAID discussion, times change, technology advances, and behavior should change accordingly. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
