First Mike O'dell left earlier this month and now this: WorldCom to abandon UUNet brand http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=36194&pub=tt&categoryid=627 I guess things are changing :-) -Hank
Ah, closure. It was, as I recall, around 1990 or 1991 that the company I helped found, "UUPlus" got UUNet's dander in an uproar over our name. UUNet thought that they owned all trademarks with "UU" in them. We were, of course, a company that made UUCP software for PCs, so the name made sense, as I saw it. Again, as I recall, UUNet gave up after about 3 months and $30,000 in legal fees. Does this put the nail in the coffin for all things (and references) UUCP, I wonder? -- Christopher Ambler CTO, Image Online Design, Inc. The .Web Internet Domain Registry chris@the.web ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hank Nussbacher" <hank@att.net.il> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 9:58 PM Subject: Uunet changing
First Mike O'dell left earlier this month and now this:
WorldCom to abandon UUNet brand
http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=36194&pub=tt&categoryid=627
I guess things are changing :-)
-Hank
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
First Mike O'dell left earlier this month and now this:
WorldCom to abandon UUNet brand
http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=36194&pub=tt&categoryid=627
I guess things are changing :-)
Be glad you're not the poor engineer who gets instructed to change all occurances of "uunet" and "uu.net" in registry entries, zone files etc. <grin /> J
Be glad you're not the poor engineer who gets instructed to change all occurances of "uunet" and "uu.net" in registry entries, zone files etc.
You think they'll bother? All their routers are still ALTER.NET ;) Simon -- Simon Lockhart | Tel: +44 (0)1737 839676 Internet Engineering Manager | Fax: +44 (0)1737 839516 BBC Internet Services | Email: Simon.Lockhart@bbc.co.uk Kingswood Warren,Tadworth,Surrey,UK | URL: http://support.bbc.co.uk/
Be glad you're not the poor engineer who gets instructed to change all occurances of "uunet" and "uu.net" in registry entries, zone files etc.
You think they'll bother? All their routers are still ALTER.NET ;)
If they are bothering to be bothered enough about dropping the UUNET brand, they will be bothered enough to drop all the old brand-diluting names too. Unless it is a good smoke screen for network failures: "It wasn't a WorldCom router that screwed up, look...". This branding thing is getting silly - I assume that not many outside of the UK have heard of the rebranding of the Post Office to "Consignia". Apparently it is only the corporation name changing and not the customer visible parts - why bother ? Of course, the silly amount spent on rebranding Andersen (a legal/contractual requirement of the demerger I think) cost a rumoured $200M. Sigh. If anyone decides to spend that kind of money again, please feel free to make me a serious offer for knowledge.com - drop in the ocean for a domain, compared to the rest. Sorry - going off topic here, need coffee, Peter
Joshua Goodall wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
First Mike O'dell left earlier this month and now this:
WorldCom to abandon UUNet brand
http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=36194&pub=tt&categoryid=627
I guess things are changing :-)
Be glad you're not the poor engineer who gets instructed to change all occurances of "uunet" and "uu.net" in registry entries, zone files etc.
<grin />
J
Maybe they won't. After all, Alter.net still lives : Autonomous System Name: ALTERNET-AS Autonomous System Block: 701 - 705 QUERY: trace www.uu.net FROM: BR1.ATL2.lyceum.net. Translating "www.uu.net"...domain server (205.142.28.2) [OK] Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to www.uu.net (63.111.61.6) 1 546.ATM1-0.GW6.ATL1.ALTER.NET (157.130.72.41) [AS 701] 4 msec 4 msec 545.ATM1-0.GW6.ATL1.ALTER.NET (157.130.72.37) [AS 701] 8 msec 2 125.at-2-0-0.XR2.ATL1.ALTER.NET (146.188.233.22) [AS 701] 4 msec 4 msec 125.at-2-0-0.XR1.ATL1.ALTER.NET (146.188.233.18) [AS 701] 4 msec 3 195.at-2-0-0.XR1.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.80.186) [AS 701] 88 msec 40 msec 12 msec 4 193.ATM6-0.SR1.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.81.121) [AS 701] 4 msec 4 msec 192.ATM4-0.SR1.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.81.117) [AS 701] 8 msec <etc> -- Regards Marshall Eubanks T.M. Eubanks Multicast Technologies, Inc 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 410 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609 e-mail : tme@on-the-i.com tme@multicasttech.com http://www.on-the-i.com http://www.buzzwaves.com
Even bigger news, from the article, is that Worldcom headquarters are now in Missouri.. talk about a change! "The move follows the Clinton, Missouri-based carrier's announcement" At 23:58 1/29/2001, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
WorldCom to abandon UUNet brand
http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=36194&pub=tt&categoryid=627
I guess things are changing :-)
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Simon Lockhart