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From: Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX)
Date: 12 Aug 1994 13:58:40 -0400
Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <9408040155.38@rmkhome.com> <31u4ja$871@ivory.lm.com> <9408081643.04@rmkhome.com>
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In article <9408081643.04@rmkhome.com>, Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote:
>Peter G. Berger (peterb@telerama.lm.com) wrote:
>: In article <9408040155.38@rmkhome.com>, Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote:
>: >Well, if AT&T dies, the USENET dies, as they own all the leased lines
>: >in the US.
>
>: No, they don't.
>: Not even *close*.
>
>The telephone infrastructure of the US is based primarily on the AT&T
>long distance trunk lines. MCI, Sprint, etc lease the use of these lines
>from AT&T.
I imagine that must be disturbing news to WilTel, whom Sprint in fact
leases most of their data lines from.
Addressing your original point: if AT&T dies, the USENET will not die.
And AT&T does not own all the leased lines in the US. They don't even own
*almost* all of the leased lines in the US.
Got it?
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Peter G. Berger, Esq. Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh
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