andrel wrote:
> Who else? 

Heh. Here it was a private company until it got big enough to make it worth 
regulating.  It was a regulated monopoly, but not *owned* by the state. The 
federal government just told it how much profit it had to make and the 
conditions under which it had to accept customers.

I guess when you aren't the first doing the technology, you can look and say 
"Gee, that's going to be very popular, we better make that part of the 
government" or something.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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