[34158] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Uunet changing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Ambler)
Tue Jan 30 01:34:23 2001
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From: "Christopher Ambler" <cambler-nanog@iodesign.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:29:06 -0800
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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?
--
Christopher Ambler
CTO, Image Online Design, Inc.
The .Web Internet Domain Registry
chris@the.web
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From: "Hank Nussbacher" <hank@att.net.il>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 9:58 PM
Subject: Uunet changing
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> First Mike O'dell left earlier this month and now this:
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> WorldCom to abandon UUNet brand
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http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=3D36194&pub=3Dtt&categoryid=3D=
627
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> I guess things are changing :-)
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> -Hank
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