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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Status of Canadian domain
Message-ID: <1258@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 19:31:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: van-bc.1258
Posted: Sat Aug 22 19:31:47 1987
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Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
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In article <53@ncc.UUCP> lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
  
>> This is mainly due to the influence of X.400 and the efforts to follow the
>> international standards. "CA" is the officially sanctioned abbreviation for
>> Canada. (Of course it is also the officially sanctioned -- by US Post Office
>> -- abbreviation for California.)

>TRUE! But ONLY in the U.S.A.  The ISO standard *should* (does?) have
>the ultimate say here.

Funny the last time *I* mailed something to:

		xyz corp
		999-234 Rancho Rd.
		Santa Barbera
		CA 95222

It arrived. 

Seems the Canadian post office agrees with the US post office :-)

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