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Stuart, You like most people know what you were taught about "anti-trust." I suggest that you look for a book called "The Triumph of Conservatism" by Gabriel Kolko. He's written several books looking at anti-trust and "merger mania" from 1895 to about 1912. (A separate book covers railroads.) If you were a business would it be easier, cheaper to buy out the competition, out produce them,......or regulate them out of business. It is cheaper to buy a few bureaucrats and politicians. The general public really never knows. AT&T didn't exactly go to it's break up "kicking and screaming." As for cheaper phone service, my inter-lata bill runs $30 to $100 a month, my long distance 5 or 6 bucks. And what do our European comrades pay? Enjoy the internet "now" as it appears to me the phone company doesn't like losing out when money can be made. As a Ham I'm watching "businesses" position themselves to gobble up spectrum and there has already been talk about internet. Look at who adminsters the "government" and where they come from. Some will not like what I say, but that German philosopher(with whom I do not agree, by the way), Hegal was very clever, THESIS, ANTI-THESIS => SYNTHESIS. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, talks like a duck........... Best regards, Bob Russell kc8chq@juno.com Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? If Microsoft built Cars: Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car. _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at <A HREF="http://www.juno.com"><A HREF="http://www.juno.com</A">http://www.juno.com</A</A>> Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e