Message-ID: <9505011435.AA20959@cscmgb.cc.ic.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 15:35:36 +0100 From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <mailto:o.crepin-leblond@IC.AC.UK> Subject: FAQ: International E-mail accessibility To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
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:--- snip --- snip --- snip --- Archive-name: mail/country-codes Last-modified: 1995/04/23
Based on International Standard ISO 3166 Names Compiled by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond E-mail: <mailto:ocl@ic.ac.uk> Release: 95.04.01
Release Notes: a. Rwanda node is off-line. New service soon. b. World Wide Web (WWW) version available
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:/pub/uunet/usenet/news.answers/mail/ #ftp://grasp.insa-lyon.fr:/pub/faq/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/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 WWW version of this document is available as:
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/country-codes.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>