Pointer to FAQ: International E-mail accessibility (1996.11.28)

Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond (mailto:o.crepin-leblond@IC.AC.UK)
Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:00:08 +0000 

Message-ID:  <199611291600.QAA24652@cscmgb.cc.ic.ac.uk>
Date:         Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:00:08 +0000
From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <mailto:o.crepin-leblond@IC.AC.UK>
Subject:      Pointer to FAQ: International E-mail accessibility (1996.11.28)
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>


Version date. 96.11.28


The 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).


It 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


Here is a short extract of latest version of the document:


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Archive-name: mail/country-codes
Last-modified: 1996/11/28


Based on International Standard ISO 3166 Codes
Compiled by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond
E-mail: <mailto:ocl@ic.ac.uk>
Release: 96.11.03




Release Notes:   a. Ethiopia (ET), Botswana (BW),
                    Netherland Antilles (AN), Haiti (HT),
                    Seychelles (SC), and Micronesia (FM)
                    with Full Internet FI
                 b. Zaire (ZR) FI still unstable
                 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.


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>.





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