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From: ted@cs.brown.edu (Tony Davis)
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Subject: Re: Phreaks of the Monolithic Era of Telephony
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In article <12230@accuvax.nwu.edu> 0004133373@mcimail.com (Donald E.
Kimberlin) writes:

 [Deleted discussion of abuse during Ma Bell's monopoly.]

>Such "tricks" were going on all over the country.  If you want a
>whole book full of them, I can supply them.

Please post some of them.

I'd like to hear both your story and our Moderator's.  What are the
arguments for and against the breakup of AT&T?


Tony Davis
ted@cs.brown.edu


[Moderator's Note: The fact that some employees of AT&T in the past
acted like jerks is not a sufficient reason to have broken them up,
that's for sure.  PAT]