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From: "Vin Diaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Naming
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:23:04 -0800
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"Barry Margolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> My point was that they're predictable to people who happen to know them
from
> other contexts. It would have been nice if the more well known 3-letter
> codes were used, though.
Agreed. I've got many bounced emails when I write to my colleagues in
China. After all these years my instinct still insists that China should be
.ch, which is unfortunately Switzerland. Once I saved someone's email in my
address book with the wrong ctld and emailed him dozens of documents, only
to have all of them bounced back. It would be much easier if the 3-letter
code .chn was used instead. But on the other hand, smaller countries that
have benefited from their 2-letter codes (Niue, Tonga, Tuvalu, etc.) will
probably disagree with me.
