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RE: DSL (was shopping for NOCs)

  • From: Barry Shein
  • Date: Wed Jun 07 17:00:08 2000


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

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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