[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 3/5/2012 3:31 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  wrote:
>
> (snip)
>>> This seems most peculiar! What legal theory holds that a manufacturer in,
>>> say, France, has a duty to supply right hand drive vehicles for use in the
>>> UK? It may be profitable for them to do so but I have trouble
>>> seeing a duty there.
>
>>> It's my understanding that this situation is ancient history,
>
>> Driving on the wrong side? I don't think so. :-)
>
>>> the Brits finally joined the rest of the world. Seems to me
>>> it was twenty or more years ago.
>
> They joined the rest of the world using (mostly) metric units
> and a decimal based currency about 40 years ago, but still drive
> on that other side.
>
> It must be interesting to go into the chunnel on one side of
> the road, and come out on the other.
>
> -- glen
>

ISTR that some country changed from "keep left" to "keep right".
Maybe it was Japan.  ISTR also that all vehicular traffic with the 
exception of emergency vehicles was prohibited while "Keep Left"
signs were changed to "Keep Right" and any other changes required.

AFAIR The change took place without casualties.