[ih] .UK vs .GB

[Nigel Roberts]

Not long after Laurie Brown and I set up GG we were 'invited' to a 
meeting in St Peter Port to talk with the IT folks from the Guernsey and 
Jersey Governments, which I went to.

I remember that Peter Harris' (who later became the Island's Data 
Protection Commissioner) business card had an X.400 address on it quite 
prominently.

I'd previously worked at DEC for the Office Systems people (IOSG) who 
were responsible for ALL-IN-1 and Message Router-X.400 Gateway (MRX) so 
I knew about X.400 mail. Even so, I *never* understood how anyone could 
possible want to use X.400 email -- I'd been emailing with people on the 
Internet using simple VAXmail almost since forever, using the form 
DECWRL::"user at domain.tld"  See RISKS-DIGEST, SF-LOVERS, etc, _passim_. 
(https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/7/93#subj6 for example).

As I remember things, Peter also haa a "normal looking" email address 
@guernsey.gov.uk in addition to the 'official' X.400 address, which, 
IIRC, he happily explained was connected to the upstream through some 
dialup system (this was mid-1996), possbly

Not long after they decided to adopt gov.gg in parallel, and that 
evenutally became the 'brand'. (I don't even think guernsey.gov.uk is 
delegated any more).


N.

On 04/15/2018 10:48 AM, Patrik Fältström wrote:
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>> On 14 Apr 2018, at 21:36, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I think I did once see a business card with an X.400 address (but
>> certainly not from Denise or Ruediger, who had more sense.)
> 
> In Sweden X.400 was used by a few hardcore institutions.  It required Y2K problems to have Tele2/Swipnet turn off their admd and gateway to/from smtp.
> 
>     Patrik
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