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UUNet Customers Cut Off By Internet Outage
News An Internet outage leaving some of business ISP UUNet's customers without connectivity on Tuesday has been blamed on the London Internet Exchange (LINX). According to a connectivity report on ISP UUNet's Web site, some of its business customers had...
[June 5, 2001, 13:08]
UUNet Hit By Spam Attack
News UUNet has confirmed the attack. Are you a UUNet customer? Further details by 1pm. Has your email been affected? Tell the Mailroom
[July 1, 1999, 10:06]
UUNet Spammed - 4 Days And No Answers
News According to ZDNet readers UUNet suffered a slowdown Monday evening with email traffic eventually grinding to a halt that evening. By Tuesday UUNet posted a note saying the Pipex Dial email servers were "running slowly" but that email should be safe.
[July 1, 1999, 13:38]
UUNET Outage Fixed - Users Back Online
News UUNET customers will be relieved to hear the ISP has now fixed the problem that prevented many users accessing US-based Web sites. UUNET customers were suffering this morning due to a major service outage emanating from the US side of the ISP's...
[October 7, 1999, 16:57]
UUNET Targets SMEs With ISDN Net Access
News Called Messenger ISDN, the service has an annual fee of around £976 and can be set-up in just 30 minutes using an online registration service, according to UUNET. As well as Web access, FTP and a choice of domain name, email facilities for 25 users...
[December 12, 1997, 16:52]
News Burst: UUNET Suffers Major Service Outage
News Richard Woods, a spokesperson for UUNET said: "We have discovered that there are problems on the American side, stemming from Washington. Are you a UUNET user? Troubled consumers are contacting ZDNet reporting major difficulties connecting to .com...
[October 7, 1999, 10:41]
Update: UUnet Outage In Atlantic
News The network failure was caused by a router at an unidentified customer of UUnet's. It took several hours to identify the source of the problem," said a UUnet spokesman. Three Internet services providers had previously claimed UUnet was the source...
[November 9, 1998, 15:40]
Novell And UUNET Pipex Pair Off For ISDN
News Called Business Connect, the product will match Novell's networking and intra-net software with ITK's ISDN hardware and Pipex's Internet access service, in a bid to attract small to medium-sized businesses.
[October 22, 1996, 14:43]
Hungry WorldCom Eats Two More Slices
News It was only about a year ago that WorldCom Inc.bought MFS Communications Co.and gained ownership of the business-focused Internet provider UUNet Technologies Inc. Network integration at the customer site is a missing piece from the WorldCom/UUNet...
[September 9, 1997, 9:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To cut a long story short, it turns out that a bug in router firmware responded badly to a stream of bad packets that hit UUNET, and that the UUNET backbone turned into a monster. If you look at UUNET's pages, you find lots and lots of confident...
[November 14, 1998, 5:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News To cut a long story short, it turns out that a bug in router firmware responded badly to a stream of bad packets that hit UUNET, and that the UUNET backbone turned into a monster. If you look at UUNET's pages, you find lots and lots of confident...
[November 14, 1998, 5:03]
MCI Accused Of Harbouring Spammers
News For over two years Spamhaus has repeatedly informed the same MCI executives that the distribution of 'stealth' anonymous spamware is also illegal in the State of Virginia where MCI UUNet is based," said Spamhaus.
[February 7, 2005, 17:45]
UK Technology Week Kicks Off Today
News Internet firm UUNet is also at UK Technology Week "showing off" its new transatlantic pipe, which, says company spokesman Richard Woods, "gives UUNet 535Mb/sec across to the US. The show which is now 3 years old brings together three shows in one...
[October 6, 1998, 6:58]
Rupert Goodwins' 12 Best Days Of 1997
News UUNet (the Internet Service Provider formerly known as Unipalm-Pipex) has a party at the Ritz to celebrate various things - the launch of the Pipex Dial 4 software, the 56K modem support (both X2 and K56Flex), the UK 155Mb backbone and so on.
[December 29, 1997, 7:00]
England V Scotland Match Live Over The Net
News In anticipation of enormous demand, BT and UUNet, which will supply the backbone for the service, said they have allocated an "unprecedented amount of bandwidth". Football fans north and south of the English border will no doubt be delighted to...
[November 12, 1999, 13:55]
WorldCom Job Losses Hit The UK
News WorldCom, which owns ISP UUNet, employs over 5,000 people in Britain. UUNet's Cambridge offices are expected to account for 430 of these, according to sources. WorldCom has confirmed that the redundancies are part of a move to integrate the UUNet...
[May 3, 2001, 10:29]
UK ISPs Threaten Action Over Spamming Tools
Talkback MCI/UUNet have for too long thumbed their noses at the internet community, not only by hosting Send-Safe, but by enriching themselves at the community's expense by ignoring complaints of abuse and harbouring any spammer who writes a cheque.
[February 11, 2005, 17:26]
MSN Denies Plan To Pull Net Access
News As a software company, Microsoft has never aspired to be in the ISP business and has provided the access element of the MSN service in partnership with one of the UK's leading ISPs UUNet. WorldCom subsidiary] UUnet have been very smart in that they...
[December 4, 1997, 10:24]
A Year Ago: MSN Denies Plan To Pull Net Access
News As a software company, Microsoft has never aspired to be in the ISP business and has provided the access element of the MSN service in partnership with one of the UK's leading ISPs UUNet. WorldCom subsidiary] UUnet have been very smart in that they...
[December 3, 1998, 6:12]
Dan Aims PCs At Web Newbies
News The UK firm's entry-level Dan Xplora and higher-spec Dan Xplora Plus both offer a choice of Pentium processors, and come with integral 33.6Kbps modem, 28-day free Internet trial via UUNet Pipex and pre-installed Netscape Navigator.
[May 12, 1997, 13:58]
