Message-ID: <199511011629.QAA28691@cscmgb.cc.ic.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 16:29:57 +0000 From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <mailto:o.crepin-leblond@IC.AC.UK> Subject: Pointer to FAQ: International E-mail accessibility (1995.10.30) To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Ver. 95.10.05The 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:
--- snip --- snip --- snip --- Archive-name: mail/country-codes Last-modified: 1995/10/30
Based on International Standard ISO 3166 Names Compiled by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond E-mail: <mailto:ocl@ic.ac.uk> Release: 95.10.05
Release Notes: a. Brunei (BN), Suriname (SR), Kenya (KE) and Morocco (MA) with Full Internet (FI) b. Vatican City State (VA) and Tadjikistan (TJ) with E-mail c. 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.
Via E-mail request as follows:
mail mailto:ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr Subject: no one cares open [mime] get pub/faq/by-name/mail/country-codes quit
where [ ] = optional
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 *new* set of clickable international maps is now available at:
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/bymap/world.html
HTTP 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> Mobile (GMT): +44 (0)956 84 111 3 <foobar@gih.co.uk>