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From: dolf@idca.tds.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
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Subject: RE: AT&T Finally Learns USA Country Code
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Date: 1 Jun 90 14:55:32 GMT
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In article <8489@accuvax.nwu.edu> John Slater <johns@happy.uk.sun.com>
writes:

<The US/Canada country code is unusual in two ways : (1) it is the only
<single-digit country code, and (2) it happens to be the same as the
<code normally used for LD access in the US and Canada.

The USSR has country code 7.


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[Moderator's Note: And thanks also to Carl Moore <cmoore@brl.mil> for a
similar message pointing this out.  PT]