1. no-nosu army major (rtd.) mad
    Kurthi raser mot grensevakta PASVIK: Tidligere major og leder for grensestasjonen på Svanvik, Oskar Kurthi raser nå mot praksisen til grensevakta etter han
    Sep 17, 2002 @ 22:35 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
  2. Re: no-nosu army major (rtd.) mad
    & reason to be mad. Stupid draftsmen... Only, if he had been a former border guard on the other side, the story would have been a bit different, perhaps.
    Sep 17, 2002 @ 22:59 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
  3. NOSU Border
    I am not familiar with two-letters country codes; NOSU stands for NOrway-former-SovietUnion?
    Sep 18, 2002 @ 08:39 - marco_polito ("marco_polito" <marco_polito@...>)
  4. Re: [BoundaryPoint] NOSU Border
    Yes! So nowadays it s NORU. The two letter country codes are the ISO ones (there is a link to them in the links section). It is interesting to see that apart
    Sep 18, 2002 @ 08:45 - Peter Smaardijk (Peter Smaardijk <smaardijk@...>)
  5. Re: NOSU Border -> ISO codes for former countries
    An interesting article I just came across: http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/commcentre/pdf/Codes0004.pdf So the Former Soviet-Union should be SUHH. This is ISO 3166-3.
    Sep 18, 2002 @ 10:40 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
  6. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: NOSU Border -> ISO codes for former countries
    I always thought NOSU could be confused with Norway-Finland in the respective native languages: Norge-Suomi ... Bill
    Sep 18, 2002 @ 10:59 - Bill Hanrahan ("Bill Hanrahan" <hanrahan@...>)
  7. Re: NOSU Border -> ISO codes for former countries
    It shouldn t be confusing: according to the ISO language codes, the code for Finnish is fi. Norwegian is no. (ISO 639-1) Peter S.
    Sep 18, 2002 @ 11:04 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
  8. Re: NOSU Border -> ISO codes for former countries
    No, that s not what you meant! I understand now. But all the more reason to stick with ISO. Peter S.
    Sep 18, 2002 @ 11:06 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
  9. Re: [BoundaryPoint] ISO codes for former countries
    ... Yes, the former code for the Soviet Union (SU) has long since been deprecated although it still lives on as a ccTLD. There has actually been a lot of
    Sep 18, 2002 @ 11:12 - Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <kevin@...>)
  10. RE: [BoundaryPoint] NOSU Border
    Yes, the army major served at the Norwegian-Soviet border (nosu), but of course today the enlisted borders the Norwegian-Russian (noru) border. My mistyping.
    Sep 18, 2002 @ 12:34 - Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
  11. Re: NOSU Border -> ISO codes for former countries
    I agree! What I had meant to say that NOSU always suggested Norge- Suomi in my mind...but not to be confused with ISO. Bill
    Sep 18, 2002 @ 12:56 - Bill Hanrahan ("Bill Hanrahan" <hanrahan@...>)