Posted by Stan Brown on 12/03/06 21:13

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:10:41 -0500 from Derek Janssen
<ejanss@nospam.comcast.net>:
> Roberto Pirezzi wrote:
> > What has .com got to do with anything???
> >
> > All that means is "commercial".

U.S. commercial, last I heard -- just as ".mil" means U.S. military
and ".gov" means U.S. government. Though there are non-US companies
that have registered .com domains, the default is .co.uk, and .gov.uk
for government(*). Examples: http://www.royal.gov.uk/ and
http://amazon.co.uk . The latter lists the DVDs in question at

> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yes-Minister-Complete-Collection-REGION/dp/B0000DI88E/sr=8-8/qid=1165179994/ref=sr_1_8/026-2565330-3230849?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

though in NTSC region 1 format.

> It means he didn't see the poster had posted the question to
> uk.media.dvd, which perfectly explained why the poster was asking for a
> title that'd been out for four years.

Actually, I did. But since the spelling and capitalization were,
well, eccentric, and the poster used a .com address (even though it
might have been faked), I just assumed it was part of massive
crossposting.

If the poster wanted Region 2, why did he not say so? A Google for
"yes, prime minister" "region 2"
turned up 577 links.

As I say, my crystal ball was in the shop. So I beg pardon for
answering the question using the most likely interpretations.


(*) though a quick Google found no .mil.uk sites.
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