Pointer to FAQ: International E-mail accessibility (1998.03.31)
Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
Version date: 1998/03/25
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).
The document 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 (text mode)
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/bymap/world.html (Worldwide maps)
The whole collection of documents (monthly releases since 1992 !)
is available on: gopher://gopher.nsrc.org:70/1m/oclbfaq/oclb
Of particular interest are the pages on Internetology, with
a snapshot of world connectivy maps every 6 months since 1993, on:
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/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: 1998/03/25
Based on International Standard ISO 3166 Codes
Compiled by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond
E-mail: <o...@gih.nospam.com> (remove "nospam")
Release: 98.03.03
Release Notes: a. Laos (LA) with UUCP link (*)
b. Cook Islands (CK) with provisional Full Internet (PFI)
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://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 document is also retrievable by E-mail from rtfm.mit.edu by
sending an E-mail to mail-...@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 a
simple mail-server robot:
Send E-mail to: <ro...@gih.com> 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 <o...@gih.nospam.com> (remove "nospam"). Thanks to all
who have helped !
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 recently been put together to reflect on the continuing
spread of Internet/E-mail in the world since that time.
This new 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.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/bymap/ntlgy/
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