[comp.protocols.tcp-ip] At Wit's End

bzs@ENCORE.COM (Barry Shein) (08/23/89)

This might not be the exact right forum but then again it might very
well be.

Apparently the country domain for Austria is .at, I recently received
a request to add such an address to the INFO-FUTURES mailing list.

Wanna guess what a lot of mailers do with foo.at? Like, change it to
foo.@ (urgh.)

Call it Internet black humor.

	-Barry Shein

Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade
1330 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202

ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) (08/31/89)

In article <8908230222.AA12884@multimax.encore.com> bzs@ENCORE.COM (Barry Shein) writes:

   This might not be the exact right forum but then again it might very
   well be.

   Apparently the country domain for Austria is .at, I recently received
   a request to add such an address to the INFO-FUTURES mailing list.

   Wanna guess what a lot of mailers do with foo.at? Like, change it to
   foo.@ (urgh.)

   Call it Internet black humor.

	   -Barry Shein

   Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade
   1330 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202

Are there not also three letter ISO codes for countries?  I was under
the impression that either the two letter or the three letter code
would work.  Maybe Austria should use the three letter code instead of
`at'.  Just a thought passing through a fogged mind.

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