Re: Could someone explain this for me?

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From: Liam R. E. Quin
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1989 08:36

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Thanks to all those who pointed out that CA is ISO-speak for Canada.
It's about as obvious as using FR would be for Ireland if you ask me,
but they didn't.

In article <1989Nov21.011916.8115@mks.com> egisin@mks.com (Eric Gisin) writes:
>[...] two character top-level domains are country codes, not states.
>OZ, UK, FR aren't states, and account for several percent of addresses.

Well, we could start having a domain for each county.  I am not
sure if we should have Y1, Y2 and Y3 for the Yorkshire Ridings,
however, and two character abbreviations might be hard.
Hmmm.
	unixsys.co.la  (we are in Lancashire)
would be great for Californians....  :-)

Lee
-- 
Liam R. Quin, Unixsys (UK) Ltd [note: not an employee of "sq" - a visitor!]
lee@sq.com (Whilst visiting Canada from England)
Unix Wizard -- someone who wears a yellow T-shirt.

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