God, this is all so DERANGED.
MCI is merging with Worldcom. The E.U.'s antitrust people said that
Worldcom couldn't both own MCI's internet business and UUNet's. The
result seems understandable.
Naturally, of course, loons decide to interpret this as part of a
great conspiracy...
.pm
Marc Hurst writes:
Nope Perry....nothing deranged...
You can read the full press releases as issued by
both MCI and CW here: http://www.isr.net/NETNEWS/netnewsmain.html
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God, this is all so DERANGED.
MCI is merging with Worldcom. The E.U.'s antitrust people said that
Worldcom couldn't both own MCI's internet business and UUNet's. The
result seems understandable.Naturally, of course, loons decide to interpret this as part of a
great conspiracy....pm
Marc Hurst writes:
> > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22519,00.html
> >
> >
> > well, this should be interesting.
>
> Please keep in mind that they just sold the ISP customers to C&W not all
> of the internet stuff..
>
> I am not sure I like it.. it looks as though they are setting the
industry
God, this is all so DERANGED.
MCI is merging with Worldcom. The E.U.'s antitrust people said that
Worldcom couldn't both own MCI's internet business and UUNet's. The
result seems understandable.
It would if MCI was selling off the entire Internet segment
of the company. Right now it looks like they're actually
only selling a tiny chunk (probably the chunk that's got
"Internet" in the name as opposed to "data services"), so
it's pretty clearly just a token effort -- but it might
work, leaving MCI Worldcom free to screw us all over.
I'm not saying they /will/. But it's looking like it won't
be too long until they /can/.
Naturally, of course, loons decide to interpret this as part of a
great conspiracy...
Nah, this is pretty boring as conspiracies go.