Indeed... the country is the UK... but the iso-whatever lists the country code as GB.... in fact all the .uk domains used to be aliases from .gb

My old Uni email address of chanaa@sx.ac.uk could also be chanaa@sx.ac.gb!!! Mind you chanaa@uk.ac.sx would also work on JANET!!

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MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk on 19/07/2001 22:34:56

To: Andrew.Chandler@ftid.com cc: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI)

Subject: Re: [Alug] locale

RFC822 message headers Andrew.Chandler@ftid.com writes:

Just one of those strange things about our country - we are the UK but for some purposes we have to be GB? Like at the Olympics etc.

I think it's something like ISO says GB, but reality often says UK. Sometimes reality beats a standard.

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