[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: [Discuss] UUNet

[Tom Adelstein]

UUNET and BBNPlanet go way back. They're both part of th original darpa 
project. uu.net provided mail services. In fact, I used to use them as 
my mail provider long ago.

rusty at fe2o3.lonestar.org wrote:

>Ernie Harkins wrote:
>    >good talent on the sidelines right now, maybe this is it...  Might be
>    >worth pointing out that the entity known as UUNET pretty much sprang up
>    >from nothing a few years ago (Now part of the MCI world, and arguably
>
>Minor nit -- guess it depends on where you come from but...  UUNet
>did not spring up "a few years ago".  I remember attending an open
>house in the Falls Church, VA office back in 1990-91 time frame. 
>Brand, spanking new offices for them but UUNet had been around a
>few years before that, sprung as a for-profit company by USENET, I
>believe.
>
>Sorry if I've got something wrong there but's been a few years and
>the grey matter, well, it's starting to smell.  :-)
>
>    -Rusty-
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