Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26177; Sat, 13 Nov 93 15:50:52 EST Received: from auvm.american.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10743; Sat, 13 Nov 93 15:50:29 EST Message-Id: <9311132050.AA10743@MIT.EDU> Received: from AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU by AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8331; Sat, 13 Nov 93 15:48:50 EST Received: from AMERICAN.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@AUVM) by AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 6017; Sat, 13 Nov 1993 15:48:45 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 20:47:31 +0000 Reply-To: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond Sender: Technology Transfer in International Development From: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond Organization: Imperial College, London, UK. Subject: FAQ: International E-mail accessibility To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L The FAQ list of email accessibility by geographic country codes, has recently been distributed around Usenet and is available in the newsgroup news.answers. Modified extract of the introduction notes: Release 93.11.1 Release Notes: a. NEW Further Information Section b. New information and (overdue) updates: Burkina-Faso, Cameroun, Congo, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Seychelles, Madagascar, Guadeloupe, French Guyana, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Vanuatu, and Angola, with UUCP access Fido node in Ethiopia, Ghana, Gambia, Zambia c. corrected a couple of mistakes in code order d. Haiti >may< be accessible by UUCP 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: rtfm.mit.edu (18.70.0.209) directory: /pub/usenet/news.answers/mail lth.se (130.235.20.3) directory: /pub/archive2/netnews/news.answers/mail # ftp.uu.net (192.48.96.9) directory: /usenet/news.answers/mail # unix.hensa.ac.uk (129.12.21.7) directory: /pub/uunet/usenet/news.answers/mail # grasp.insa-lyon.fr directory: /pub/faq/mail (#) those may not be accessible via Bear access or direct PC access in some cases. Via listserver request: listserver@grasp.insa-lyon.fr with the command: get faq mail/country-codes All FAQs are also available via listserv@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be or listserv@blekul11.bitnet . 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 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 an experimental simple mail-server that I have setup from my account. Send E-mail to: with a subject: archive-server-request and the command: get mail/country-codes in the body of your message. -- Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond, Digital Comms. Section, Elec. Eng. Department Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2BT, UK Internet/Bitnet: - Janet: