[sudo-discuss] Recommend an ISP!!!!! + Official SR Recommendations?

[Steve Berl]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, GtwoG PublicOhOne <g2g-public01 at att.net>wrote:

> Originally, carriers were legally forbidden to have any financial interest
> in "content."  Thus the telephone company could not give you a better or
> worse connection depending on whether they did or didn't like you or the
> words you said in conversations.


As a (humorus?) aside, legend has it that the original automatic telephone
switch was invented just to combat this sort of financial conflict of
interest.

>From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch

According to some accounts, Almon Strowger, an
undertaker<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_director>,
was motivated to invent an automatic telephone exchange after having
difficulties with the local telephone
operators<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchboard_operator>,
one of whom was the wife of a competitor. He was said to be convinced that
she, as one of the manual telephone
exchange<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange#Manual_service_exchanges>
operators
was sending calls "to the undertaker" to her husband.[*citation needed
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>*]


Have fun,
-- 
-steve
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