Re: [Asrg] Re: Country numbers

["Mark E. Mallett" <mem at mv.mv.com>]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 01:57:36PM -0800, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Frank Ellermann wrote:
> 
> >gep2 at terabites.com wrote:
> >
> >>I think that "1" is the country number for the USA!  (It's
> >>certainly the country number used for the USA in
> >>international phone calling, aren't those numbers the same?)
> >
> >Not the same, the US number 840 is listed on their info page:
> >
> ><http://countries.nerd.dk/more.html>  Apparently 127.0.0.8 is
> >their smallest result:  <http://countries.nerd.dk/isolist.txt>
> 
> I found ISO country code numbers to not be very interesting, nor are
> they well known (some don't know it exists, otherwise confuse it with 
> telephone codes, etc). For this and similar reasons I chose to use ASCII 
> codes of ISO (IANA CCtld really) 2-letter codes for similar service:
>  http://www.completewhois.com/statistics/data/ips-bycountry/rirstats/1ST-READ-THIS.txt

Indeed.  FWIW, the countries.nerd.dk DNSBL also returns 2-character country
codes as a TXT reply (as specifically stated in the URL above).  I have
been using it in my own mailbox filter script to add an "X-Country-Code"
header -- so far just for exposition only, not to act on.

mm

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