Re: RIPE 50: Registration Now Open

[Jim Reid <]

>>>>> "Nigel" == Titley, Nigel NTitley@localhost 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?