Interesting asides

This page is a collection of information about things that may be of interest to readers. Some will consider it irrelevant trivia, others harmless fun.

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Want to know what all those country codes mean?

Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond maintains a list of country codes:
The document is retrievable by sending E-mail to
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 a simple mail-server robot:
Send E-mail to: robot@gih.com
with a subject:
archive-server-request
and the command:
get mail/country-codes
in the body of your message.

The document is also distributed automatically once a month on a mailing list.
To subscribe to that mailing list, send a message to:
country-codes-request@nsrc.org
with the command in the body of the message:
subscribe

The whole collection of documents (monthly releases since 1992 !) is available at:
http://www./.org/oclb

Feedback and suggestions will be welcome.
Send all comments by email to netmiser@cryogen.com

Last updated: 24th May 1999.