According to Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>:
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From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
There's over 300 unassigned codes to choose from. GV or UV perhaps?
I'm sure *I* would fight for a 3166 code that started with the first letter of my country name. But it's not my country, so my concerns are esthetic, and academic (in either send of the word).
I suspect the Bougainvillians (Bougainvillains?) have a few more urgent topics to attend to. The island's only significant asset is a huge copper mine which has been closed since 1989 when the civil war started. If they can't figure out how to both get the mine open again and to deal with the environmental mess left by the former operator, they won't have much of a country. R's, John -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly