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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: Domain .NA
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Date: 3 Mar 91 17:16:48 GMT
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In article <9103021535.AA09219@rimfaxe.diku.dk> thorinn@RIMFAXE.DIKU.DK
(Lars Henrik Mathiesen) writes, about a "domain" address ending in .NA:
>According to the ISO 3166 list once posted here, NA is:
>	Namibia				NA	NAM	516
>However, the root servers give NXDOMAIN for NA, so your address can't
>have been a working Internet one. UUCP perhaps?

Probably an amateur packet radio address. I'll bet it's something like
KA5KTH@#HOU.TX.US.NA or so...the last three parts describe the state or
province, country, and continent. These addresses are not reachable from
the Internet, due at least in part to content restrictions on amateur
radio far tighter than the Internet ever thought about having.

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