On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:41:34 -0500, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:

Yup. This is the form I saw in the PRC,

It's come to Thailand too: NIPA. Results in lots of puzzling hits, or you end up at Google if NIPA can't find anything. You also get this if there is a transient DNS lookup failure. Jeffrey Race