Subject: FAQ: International E-mail accessibility

From: [email-masked] (Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond)
Date: 25 Dec 1994 01:39:51 -0600

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: 1994/12/20 

Based on International Standard ISO 3166 Names 
Compiled by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond 
E-mail: <[email-masked]> 
Release: 94.12.3 

Release Notes:   a. Vietnam (VN) connected by UUCP 
                 b. Zambia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia with FI 
                 c. Czechoslovakia (CS) not a top-level domain anymore  
                 d. New World Wide Web (WWW) Mosaic version  
                    under construction 

     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 [email-masked]
Subject: no one cares
open
[mime]
get pub/faq/mail/country-codes
quit

where [ ] = optional

All FAQs are also available via [email-masked]   or
[email-masked] . 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 [email-masked] , 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: <[email-masked]> with a subject: archive-server-request
and the command: get mail/country-codes  in the body of your message.

An experimental (i.e: under construction) WWW version of this document
is available as:

          http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/country-codes.html

This is currently experimental, so its reference may change at short
notice, and some of the links in the document are currently not working.
HTTP references for Top-Level information servers for a particular country
should be sent to <[email-masked]>. 

-- 
Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond, Digital Comms. Section, Elec. Eng. Department
 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2BT, UK
       Internet/Bitnet:  <[email-masked]>  -  <[email-masked]>     

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