Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!watmath!mks.com!egisin
From: egisin@mks.com (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: Re: Could someone explain this for me?
Message-ID: <1989Nov21.011916.8115@mks.com>
Date: 21 Nov 89 01:19:16 GMT
References: <1989Nov8.195924.29680@eci386.uucp> <1989Nov19.202624.15502@sq.sq.com>
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In article <1989Nov19.202624.15502@sq.sq.com>, lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes:
> What am I missing?  Why is Canada CA and not CAN, and why CAN't CAlifornia
> be CA?

Or why can't Califoria be CL? Canadians aren't confused by CA,
Americans are. Why should we change instead of them?

Anyone who has been reading news for a while should realise
that two character top-level domains are country codes, not states.
OZ, UK, FR aren't states, and account for several percent of addresses.