I see your point - but pragmatism may be more appropriate than insistence on ISO country codes.
Let's see, there is a E.U. ambassador in Washington: http://www.eurunion.org/ Your State Department has a diplomatic mission at the E.U.: http://www.useu.be/ U.S. Department of Energy lists it among countries: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/cabswe.html I have a E.U. passport, a E.U. driver's license, you go through E.U. citizen checkpoints at airports, there is a directly elected E.U. parliament, an E.U. executive branch, an E.U. high court, many areas of the national law are superceded by E.U. law, one external border, no internal borders - and now they even have a common currency for the hard-core member states. >From the outside looking in, it may not be a country - but I think the E.U. is a supranational, geographically well-defined political, social, economic and atomic energy country-like entity where it may be technically correct for you to reject the "eu" abbreviation - but from a "real-world" perspective (if spam protection is more important that politics), it may not be productive to mark the use of the official abbreviation "eu" by the authoritative organization (RIPE) as "corrupt". Best Regards Andy Schmidt Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax: +1 201 934-9206 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 07:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Country Chain >Yet - the following country chain was reported: > > 'EU' [corrupt RIPE data]->destination That's actually a bug at RIPE. They are claiming that the IP is registered to a country with the 2-character abbreviation of "EU". Apparently, they are using that to refer to the European Union, but last I checked, that was neither a country nor registered with a 2-character abbreviation. -Scott --- Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers since 2000. Declude Virus: Ultra reliable virus detection and the leader in mailserver vulnerability detection. Find out what you've been missing: Ask for a free 30-day evaluation. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
