Uunet changing

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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 :slight_smile:

-Hank

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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?

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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

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Joshua Goodall 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 :slight_smile:

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

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>

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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"