"Nigel" == Titley, Nigel <NTitley@flagtelecom.com> writes:
RIPE> RIPE 50 will be held 2-6 May, 2005 at the Clarion Hotel in RIPE> Stockholm, Sweden. >> Where else would Stockholm be but Sweden? Nigel> To our dear American cousins it could be a small town in Nigel> the mid west, for example, Cairo (Illinois), Rome Nigel> (Illinois) and Paris (Illinois). Hence their tendency to Nigel> qualify with country, for example, Cairo (Egypt), Paris Nigel> (France) and Rome (Italy). Exactly! I'm sure most of the Americans on our lists are well aware we're not referring to hick towns in the US. As are the rest of the people on the NCC's lists. Nigel> I'm somewhat disappointed to see the RIPE NCC adopting the Nigel> habit though. That's my point. Where will this idiocy end? Do we have to explain that Sweden's in Europe? Or Europe's a continent on Earth?