[34211] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Uunet changing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Wed Jan 31 04:29:45 2001
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From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowledge.com>
To: "Joshua Goodall" <joshua@roughtrade.net>,
"Simon Lockhart" <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: "Hank Nussbacher" <hank@att.net.il>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:13:49 -0000
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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.
>
> 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
