Testing Again

[Andre Mangan]

That interchange made me curious as to why BigPond never ever had a .au
identifier and I asked a friend, a retired Telstra executive.  It appears
that after OTC and Telecom merged, the newly-formed company Telstra
registered on the American (US) stock exchange in 1993. Since the US of A
regarded itself as the originator of the internet, it had no national
identifier and therefore Telstra too was exempt.  There were reasons for
Telstra doing this but to elaborate further would make this historical
account far too long.  It was only after Telstra (BigPond) offered broadband
that the .com was replaced by the .net.au.

Cheers,
Andre



On 31/07/07, Andre Mangan <andremangan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Mike,
>
> Stop grinning...I have had a bigpond address since about 1995, if not
> before.  There has never been a .au suffix.  Currently I have several
> bigpond addresses, having retained my dialup address without the .au.  My
> broadband address does have the .au suffix.
>
> To attach a .au suffix has become a matter of habit for Australians
> because all other Australian ISPs use this identifier.  Because of this
> habit, if all emails addressed to bigpond.com.au were to be rejected as
> incorrectly addressed it would clog the mail system and Bigpond would lose
> even more customers.
>
> On second thoughts, keep grinning.  What is life without mirth?
>
> Cheers,
> Andre
>
>
>
> On 30/07/07, Mike Harold <mike.harold at bigpond.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >  *From:* Andre Mangan <andremangan at gmail.com>
> > *To:* Mike Harold <mike.harold at bigpond.com.au>
> > *Cc:* ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> > *Sent:* Monday, July 30, 2007 5:01 PM
> > *Subject:* Re: Testing Again
> >
> > Do you mean the .au at the end of your address that should not be there?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andre
> >
> > Now Andre! You know perfectly well that BigPond has only recently
> > dropped the au, and that it is still a recognised part of the address.
> > Besides that, I have had my e-mail address from just about the first day
> > that Telstra, or whatever it was in those days, changed the name of its
> > Internet Service Provider to BigPond.
> > How far can you go back?
> >
> > - and I am grinning from ear to ear!
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> andremangan at gmail.com




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