[29060] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DSL (was shopping for NOCs)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Wed Jun 7 16:58:53 2000
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:55:56 -0400 (EDT)
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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The satirical comedian Lenny Bruce would describe his visit to the
Soviet Union in the 1960's: Imagine an entire NATION run by the phone
company!
On June 7, 2000 at 01:03 avg@kotovnik.com (Vadim Antonov) wrote:
>
> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@netmore.net> wrote:
>
> > I used to work for Bell Atlantic - it was like working for the Soviet Union.
>
> As someone who used to work for both the Soviet Union and an (unnamed here,
> but well-known otherwise) American phone company i can only confirm the rather
> conspicious similarity.
>
> --vadim
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