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You guys can rage against the machine all you want but all I wanna do us get email to their system. Ronald E. Kushner wrote: Bruce Barnes wrote: There's a great book I just finished, albeit somewhat one-sided in its viewpoint, called, "The Rape of Ma Bell".  It tells the real story about how the Justice Department started the breakup of the original AT&T back in the early 50s, under the Eisenhower Administration and they successfully fought it - and held back on both lower prices and progress (ie: they successfully stood in the way of any new products and services that might be introduced by their competition) until 1982 when Judge Green forced the actual split of the company.  Once that happened, they had the opportunity to keep pace with their new competitors, but, instead, chose to micro-manage the actual split of the original Bell System into smaller companies, each of which had just enough knowledge to stay in business but not quite enough knowledge to stay ahead of the competition. Oh wow, that's nowhere near the truth.  What AT&T got from the Baby Bells was table scraps. I know people who worked at that time for Ameritech and they tell me that they took nearly everything in way of equipment from AT&T.   They told them they 90% of the frames had equipment that was to be divested. They might have thought they pulled a fast one, but they were clueless to what was really theirs. What they really created with eight companies with the lobbying knowledge to whitewash Senators and Representatives in Washington. -Ron To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/