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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Houston bbs's vs SW Bell - more
Message-ID: <5898@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 26 Oct 88 01:47:12 GMT
References: <4252@moray.UUCP>
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in article <4252@moray.UUCP>, judy@moray.UUCP (Judy Scheltema) says:

$ The following is the text of an article that appeared in the Houston Post
$ editorial pages on October 22, 1988. The reporter who wrote this will be
$ attending the meeting scheduled for October 27, 1988 at the Grand Hotel
$ at noon to cover further developments. Approximately 150 sysops and users
$ have RSVP'ed as of this writing, so it should be a good turnout and just
$ perhaps get Ma Bell's attention. If anyone can make this meeting who has
$ not signed up, please contact Sandy at 713-961-7800 to confirm your presence.
$ We should have representatives from both newspapers and a couple of 
$ tv stations there to spread the word on what the phone company is attempting
$ to do. 

Unfortunately, I cannot make it out to Houston for the 27th (a
Thursday), and I doubt the Texas PUC would care what a Louisiana
citizen said. However, if the Houston sysops decide to pursue legal
action in this case, please post... let's see if we can get a legal
fund together from USENET and BBS systems. I suspect that we (the
sysops) may be able to get together quite a booty indeed... especially
if current "free" BBS's band together to ask a $5 one-time fee of
their users, for legal defense purposes.


$ Copyright 1988 HEART ATTACK PRODUCTS
$ 10901 Meadowglen 142
$ Houston, TX  77042
$ (713) 785-3487

Let us know more as it happens. I remember that the phone company in
Oklahoma tried the same thing and got shouted down by their public
utilities commission... and I live in constant terror that South
Central Bell will try the same thing in Louisiana, where there is no
large mass of sysops to raise bloody hell.

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