Sent from: qix@desire.apana.org.au (Mitchell Porter) Australia considers a new policy which could make it a leader in the race to bring telecommunications into the dark ages: [forwarded from a local mailing list] According to Electronic Frontiers Australia.... http://www.efa.org.au/ "in a submission to the Department of Arts and Communications Telstra recommended that the nation have ONE service provider as a means of regulating access to the Internet." Source - Internet.au Apr 1996 p.37 [Telstra is the state-owned telecom company, until recently a monopoly. I can't find the above information anywhere at the EFA site itself; the words are quoted from the _Internet.au_ magazine, which lists EFA as its source. -mitch] -- -mitch http://desire.apana.org.au/~qix