Message-ID: <199808061259.NAA00809@salsa.gih.co.uk> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:59:36 +0100 From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <mailto:ocl@GIH.COM> Subject: Pointer to FAQ: International E-mail accessibility (1998.08.06) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Version date: 1998/08/06The FAQ document "mail/country-codes" has been recently distributed around Usenet and is available in the Usenet newsgroup news.answers (and other newsgroups such as comp.mail.misc, comp.mail.uucp, news.newusers.questions, alt.internet.services, alt.internet.access.wanted, alt.answers and comp.answers).
The document can also be downloaded in a number of different ways.
I suggest the easiest way being via the Web:
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/country-codes.html (text mode)
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/bymap/world.html (Worldwide maps)
The whole collection of documents (monthly releases since 1992 !) is available on: gopher://gopher.nsrc.org:70/1m/oclbfaq/oclb
Of particular interest are the pages on Internetology, with a snapshot of world connectivy maps every 6 months since 1993, on:
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/bymap/ntlgy/
Here is a short extract of the latest version of the document:
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Archive-name: mail/country-codes Last-modified: 1998/08/06
Based on International Standard ISO 3166 Codes Compiled by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond E-mail: <mailto:ocl@gih.nospam.com> (remove "nospam") Release: 98.08.01
Release Notes: a. Comoros (KM) with Full Internet (FI)
Every now-and-then there are enquiries on the net regarding E-mail to a distant country. The question is often of the type "has that country got E-mail access ?". The following table is a guide of country codes, showing the countries which have access to Internet or general E-mail services. The country codes have been derived from the International Organization for Standardization standard ISO 3166. A country code is taken as a top level domain once it is registered at rs.internic.net so *not* all country codes listed are top level domains. At the bottom of the table, there is also a section of general top level domains, based on the information available at rs.internic.net.
Once released, this document is archived in a number of archive sites around the world. Amongst them:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/ #ftp://ftp.uu.net:/usenet/news.answers/mail/ ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/usenet/news.answers/news.newusers.questions/
(#) those may not be accessible via Bear access or direct PC access in some cases.
The document is also retrievable by E-mail from rtfm.mit.edu by sending an E-mail to mailto:mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu , blank subject line and the command: send usenet/news.answers/mail/country-codes
The up-to-date, pre-release document is also available using a simple mail-server robot: Send E-mail to: <mailto:robot@gih.com> with a subject: archive-server-request and the command: get mail/country-codes in the body of your message.
A sister document is available on the World Wide Web. It is based on this FAQ, and has links to further information for each domain:
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/country-codes.html
A set of clickable international connectivity maps is available at:
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/bymap/world.html
Web references for Top-Level information servers for a particular country should be sent to <mailto:ocl@gih.nospam.com> (remove "nospam"). Thanks to all who have helped !
Internetology
The Internet has exploded in size in the last few years. The present document has been edited monthly since 1993, and some Web pages have recently been put together to reflect on the continuing spread of Internet/E-mail in the world since that time. This new section is called "Internetology". It provides a graphical history of the spread of the Net in developing countries, by taking snapshots of Internet connectivity every six months since November 1993. All of the maps tie-up with the information that is included with the FAQ on International E-mail accessibility.
The reference for the Internetology pages is:
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/bymap/ntlgy/
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