On 12-5-2010 21:25, Mike Raiford wrote:
> On 5/12/2010 7:57 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>>> Yes, the GPO.
>>>
>>> pardon my ignorance, but what is a GPO?
>>
>> What, couldn't Google it? >;-)
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Post_Office
> 
> I saw that, but I didn't think it had any relevance to the conversation. 
> You mean to tell me the post office controls the phone system?
> 
Who else? Here the company was called the PTT for "Post Telegraaf 
Telefoon". Despite the different spelling, I think you can figure out 
what those words mean. There were all for obvious reasons (i.e. obvious 
outside the US) state monopolies that involved communications, so the 
logical thing (id.) is to combine them.

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