Re: <1998-09-08> The ch.market.* Newsgroups

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From: Heribert Slama
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 19:20

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On Sun, 04 Mar 2001 11:08:19 -0500, in ch.admin, Brian Brunner
<roadrunner@madbbs.com> wrote:

>What baffles me (and everybody else in the USA) is *why* is it 'ch'.whatever.
>
>[.........]

1) CH is printed on the nationality stickers of cars registered in
Switzerland. (Nationality stickers are probably not well known in the
USA.) 

2) This code was taken over by the International Standards
Organization (ISO, part of the U.N.) as the 2-letter country code.
Therefore it became the name of the Swiss usenet hierarchy.
(Note: many ISO country codes are different from the code used on
nationality stickers for cars; for Switzerland they are identical.)

3) CH is the abbreviation of the _Latin_ name of Switzerland:
	Confoederatio	(Confederation)
	Helvetica	(Swiss)

Regards,
	-Heribert

-- 
Heribert Slama 
Systems programmer
Muttenz, Switzerland
(for e-mail use *reply* address only)

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From: slama-h@gmx.net (Heribert Slama)
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