>I know what happened, my question is why we had to jump through >these hoops to get back to where we were in 1984.
Back then we were at the point where a regulated monopoly was no longer serving the public good. AT&T and become ossified. We had a communications network that only allowed voice communication when the world was opening up to communication between machines. For years I had to use an acoustic coupler. The digital signal had to be converted to analog sounds to travel over the network and then converted back. When I connected my equipment using a phone tap I was breaking the law and could have had my telephone service cut off for abuse (wow, doesn't that sound familiar?) Now it is time to get rid of Cox and Comcast. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
