JRS: In article , dated Fri, 11 Feb
2005 13:18:23, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Dave Newt newtonline@R
EMOVEgmail.THIScom posted :

In the rebranding, it was decided that the new name should be Imperial
College London and that the short version should be Imperial. Use of
.ic.ac.uk has been proscribed and the ICT Department had fun trying to
change all the domain servers to .imperial.ac.uk.

That seems very stupid.

Do I need to change .ic.ac.uk references on my Web site to
..imperial.ac.uk ?

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Dr John Stockton wrote:
JRS: In article , dated Fri, 11 Feb
2005 13:18:23, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Dave Newt newtonline@R
EMOVEgmail.THIScom posted :

In the rebranding, it was decided that the new name should be Imperial
College London and that the short version should be Imperial. Use of
.ic.ac.uk has been proscribed and the ICT Department had fun trying to
change all the domain servers to .imperial.ac.uk.


That seems very stupid.

Do I need to change .ic.ac.uk references on my Web site to
.imperial.ac.uk ?

Well, most of the base URLs SHOULD still work, or at least redirect, but
I would check any deep links you have, as most of the web servers have
been replaced too, and many URLs are now awful Oracle CMS-based long
unmemorable things. No guarantee that just changing .ic. to .imperial.
will work at all.

On the other hand, plenty of servers have not changed at all yet...

Suck it n see, I'm afraid!

"Dr John Stockton" wrote in message
...

.ic.ac.uk

Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"?

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.ic.ac.uk
Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"?

Yes, and the Department of Computing is doc.ic.ac.uk, "Dock Ick Ack
Uck". DoC also once had a server called hock.doc.ic.ac.uk, hence "Hock
Dock Ick Ack Uck".

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:39:23 +0000, Ashley Brown
wrote:

.ic.ac.uk
Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"?

Yes, and the Department of Computing is doc.ic.ac.uk, "Dock Ick Ack
Uck". DoC also once had a server called hock.doc.ic.ac.uk, hence "Hock
Dock Ick Ack Uck".

I believe at one point the Computing departmental society (DoCSoc) had an
email address of Dock Sock at Dock Ick Ack Uck.

Yes, and the Department of Computing is doc.ic.ac.uk, "Dock Ick Ack
Uck". DoC also once had a server called hock.doc.ic.ac.uk, hence
"Hock Dock Ick Ack Uck".

I believe at one point the Computing departmental society (DoCSoc) had
an email address of Dock Sock at Dock Ick Ack Uck.

And they still do!

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:58:01 +0000, Ashley Brown
wrote:

Yes, and the Department of Computing is doc.ic.ac.uk, "Dock Ick Ack
Uck". DoC also once had a server called hock.doc.ic.ac.uk, hence
"Hock Dock Ick Ack Uck".
I believe at one point the Computing departmental society (DoCSoc) had
an email address of Dock Sock at Dock Ick Ack Uck.

And they still do!

I presumed they would, but thank you for confirming it. I've had no
dealings with DoCSoc since 1999...

John Rowland wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 13 Feb 2005:

"Dr John Stockton" wrote in message
...

.ic.ac.uk

Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"?

According to my daughter, yes! She almost wished she'd gone there just
to have such a lovely e-mail address, and envied her friend, who had.
Of course, when her father was there, e-mail hadn't been invented!
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Mrs Redboots wrote:
John Rowland wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 13 Feb 2005:


"Dr John Stockton" wrote in message
...

.ic.ac.uk

Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"?


According to my daughter, yes! She almost wished she'd gone there just
to have such a lovely e-mail address, and envied her friend, who had.
Of course, when her father was there, e-mail hadn't been invented!

Exactly! I spent about twelve years thinking how it would be cool to
have one and then when I finally got one, they rebranded it out of
existence! (They do still work though.)

Dave Newt wrote:
Mrs Redboots wrote:

John Rowland wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 13 Feb 2005:


"Dr John Stockton" wrote in message
...

.ic.ac.uk


Is that normally pronounced "Ick Ack Uck"?


According to my daughter, yes! She almost wished she'd gone there just
to have such a lovely e-mail address, and envied her friend, who had.
Of course, when her father was there, e-mail hadn't been invented!


Exactly! I spent about twelve years thinking how it would be cool to
have one and then when I finally got one, they rebranded it out of
existence! (They do still work though.)

But if you actually tell someone your email address as "at ick ack uck"
then they have no idea what you mean by "ick" unless they're at Imperial
too (and some people don't know what you mean by "ack" either!).

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