[Mageia-discuss] IRC community channels - need a ruling from the board

[Frederic Janssens]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 15:07, Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:

>
> Northern Ireland is NOT part of Ireland, it is part of the UK.
>>
>> I know that Wikipedia is not always a trusted source of
>> information, but this page is pretty accurate:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland
>>
>>
>
> Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on one's point of view, by
> international convention (meaning that all parties were in agreement at the
> time of signing) Ireland's country code is IE. Ireland was part of this
> agreement.
>
> Marc
>
> I think you keep confusing Ireland as a country and Ireland as geographical
island. Ireland the country does not cover all of Ireland the geographical
island.
Ireland's country code is IE but does not apply to the whole of Ireland the
geographical island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland is not
part of
IE but of UK.

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Frederic
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