On 05/28/98, "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
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. -- J.D. Falk <jdfalk@vix.com> Vixie Enterprises http://www.vix.com/ *** No more time to wait! http://www.tigerden.com/junkmail/redalert.html ***