Re: Uunet changing

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler-nanog () iodesign com>]

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