MYERSTON@KL.SRI.COM (HECTOR MYERSTON) (06/18/87)
WERNER@R20.UTEXAS.EDU writes> >> This is the same "the world owes me a living" >> mentality that demands the highest of quality from a faceless "Ma >> Bell" while resisting any increases in cost. It is best exemplified >> by the socialist fools at Consumer Reports. >just to let you know that this "fool" thinks that you are all wet ... >if society allows monopolies, we have a right to demand that prices go >down and quality goes up when technology improves ... of course, your >disregard for the value of the work (and the need for it) of Consumers >Report make me expect that I am talking to deaf ears ...to bad. >not that I think that CR is infallible ...far from it! You missed both points. Society did NOT "allow monopolies" society BROKE UP the monopoly allowing the user (in this case the hotels) to choose which Long Distance carrier to use. The original poster was complaining about the Hotel blocking access to OTHER carriers. We can't have our cake (by breaking up the Bell System) and eat it too (demand that hotels provide some sort of equal access to one and all). A discussion of CR probably belongs in Net.fussbudget. But, since you ask, here is my rationale. CR is OK for testing toasters and the like although they over-emphasize the manufacturer and government responsibilities for user stupidity ("Unsafe if turned on while in the bathtub"). They have recently chosen to expand into social engineering and liberal politics. Their views on such things as Telecommunications policy have no more validity than that of any other left-wing journal. Besides, they insist in numbering their pages in mid-19th century style. I am replying here as ARPANET does not recognize your address. -------
roger@celtics.UUCP (06/24/87)
In article <12311528645.16.MYERSTON@KL.SRI.Com> MYERSTON@KL.SRI.COM (HECTOR MYERSTON) writes: >We can't have our cake (by breaking up the Bell System) and eat it too >(demand that hotels provide some sort of equal access to one and all). But that's exactly what the Equal Access order DID require for direct residential and business access...! -- ///==\\ (No disclaimer - nobody's listening anyway.) /// Roger B.A. Klorese, CELERITY (Northeast Area) \\\ 40 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701 +1 617 872-1552 \\\==// celtics!roger@seismo.CSS.GOV - seismo!celtics!roger