Pointer to FAQ: International E-mail accessibility

Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond (mailto:o.crepin-leblond@IC.AC.UK)
Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:45:52 +0100 

Message-ID:  <199607021745.SAA02910@cscmgb.cc.ic.ac.uk>
Date:         Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:45:52 +0100
From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <mailto:o.crepin-leblond@IC.AC.UK>
Subject:      Pointer to FAQ: International E-mail accessibility
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>


Ver. 96.06.02


The FAQ document mail/country-codes has been recently distributed
around Usenet and is available in the Usenet newsgroup news.answers
It can however be downloaded in a number of different ways.
Here is a short extract of the document:


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Archive-name: mail/country-codes
Last-modified: 1996/06/26


Based on International Standard ISO 3166 Names
Compiled by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond
E-mail: <mailto:ocl@ic.ac.uk>
Release: 96.06.02




Release Notes:   a. Mali (ML), Vanuatu (VU) and
                    Djibouti (DJ) and Solomon Islands (SB)
                    with Full Internet (FI).
                 b. World Wide Web (WWW) Maps on-line !


     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://lth.se:/pub/netnews/news.answers/mail/
#ftp://ftp.uu.net:/usenet/news.answers/mail/
#ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk:/mirrors/uunet/usenet/news.answers/mail/
#ftp://ftp.univ-lyon1.fr:/pub/faq/by-name/mail/


(#) those may not be accessible via Bear access or direct PC access
    in some cases.


All FAQs are also available via mailto:listserv@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be   or
mailto:listserv@blekul11.bitnet . For an index of all FAQs available,
put the command GET NETFAQS FILELIST in the body of your message.


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 an
experimental simple mail-server that I have setup from my account.
Send E-mail to: <mailto:ocl@ic.ac.uk> 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@ic.ac.uk>.





--
Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond, Digital Comms. Section, Elec. Eng. Department
 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2BT, UK
mailto:<foobar@ic.ac.uk>            In Funk We Trust             <foobar@gih.com>