ac> I imagine a similar situation once occurred (prior to 
 ac> the Internet) where "local" phone calls were free in 
 ac> some parts of the world, notably the US, although I 
 ac> never found out much about that.  Are they still free?

Dunno. I have a hard time believing in free anything, but if some fool
offers I'll take it all :)

 ac> (In Australian capital cities in the mid 1990s local 
 ac> calls were about 20 cents.  Local calls were untimed, 
 ac> with a radius of about 50 km.)

I heard they sent 1000 faxes of some guy's arse to Telstra in protest when
they proposed to hike charges on SysOps specifically.


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