Message-ID: <000b01be709d$3aadd600$03000004@lambada.gih.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:40:20 -0000 From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <mailto:ocl@GIH.COM> Subject: Pointer to FAQ: International e-mail accessibility (1999.03.17) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Version date: 1999/03/17The FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) 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.
Via the Web:
http://www.nsrc.org/codes/country-codes.html (text mode)
http://www.nsrc.org/codes/bymap/world.html (Worldwide maps)
The whole collection of documents (monthly releases since 1992 !) is available on: http://www.nsrc.org/oclb
Of particular interest are the pages on Internetology, with a snapshot of world connectivy maps every 6 months since 1993, on:
http://www.nsrc.org/codes/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: 1998/03/17
Based on International Standard ISO 3166 Codes Compiled by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond E-mail: <mailto:ocl@gih.com> Release: 99.03.01
Release Notes: a. No new top level domains or changes in the past month b. Web reference: http://www.nsrc.org/codes/country-codes.html http://www.nsrc.org/codes/bymap/world.html
This document answers the question:
"Has country X got E-mail or Internet 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 the InterNIC, 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.
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IX. Archiving
At each release, 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 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.
The document is also distributed automatically once a month on a mailing list. To subscribe to that mailing list, send a message to: mailto:country-codes-request@nsrc.org with the command in the body of the message: subscribe
The whole collection of documents (monthly releases since 1992 !) is available on: http://www.nsrc.org/oclb
X. World-Wide-Web (WWW) documents
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.nsrc.org/codes/country-codes.html
A set of clickable international colour-coded maps is available at:
http://www.nsrc.org/codes/bymap/world.html
The pages are kindly hosted by the Network Startup Resource Center in the University of Oregon as a service to the Internet community.
Web references for Top-Level information servers for a particular country should be sent to <mailto:ocl@gih.com>. Thanks to all who have helped !
XI. 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 been put together to reflect on the continuing spread of Internet/E-mail in the world since that time.
This 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.nsrc.org/codes/bymap/ntlgy/
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