Subject: compuserve addresses

From: John Stumbles <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 09:28:59 GMT

How can I send a message to someone at Compuserve?

Typing their user id - of the form 1stnumber,[email-masked] - 
pine thinks it is two addresses - 1stnumber@local domain and 
[email-masked]

Quoting the string doesn't seem to help.

John Stumbles                                       [email-masked]
University of Reading                                              0734 318435
Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK
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From: "M. Spohn" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 11:19:30 +0100 (MET)

John,

I think that you have to use a dot instead of a comma:

[email-masked]

Martin Spohn                     

Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
Abteilung Netze         
Universitaet Tuebingen         Telefon: +49 7071 296970
Brunnenstrasse 27              SMTP:  [email-masked]
D-72074 Tuebingen              X.400: C=de;A=d400;P=uni-tuebingen;O=zdv;S=spohn

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From: Scott McWilliams <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 06:08:27 -0500 (EST)

Mail to Compuserve by changing the comma between the two parts of the 
compuserve address to a period. That way mailers see it as one address. 
When CS gets it, it maps the period over to the comma and delivers the 
mail. So, 12345,4545 becomes [email-masked]

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|  Scott A. McWilliams                Internet: [email-masked]      |
|    Sysadmin, Postmaster                                                  |
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|    Snail: Beth Israel Hospital                                           |
|           Network Services                                               |
|           Mail Stop BL-320               Vox: +1 617.735.5559            |
|           330 Brookline Avenue          Facs: +1 617.735.3966            |
|           Boston, Mass. 02215                                            |
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From: Leah <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 10:21:59 -0600 (CST)

Hi...I'm new...I'm put in charge of writing the documentation for pine at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

Anyway....

When writing a compuserve address, just change the commas to periods and
you'll be fine....

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From: Grant Fengstad <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 09:14:50 -0800 (PST)

> pine thinks it is two addresses - 1stnumber@local domain and 

Send mail to a compuserve addressee as:

	[email-masked]  (note: period, not comma)

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From: John Stumbles <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 10:07:58 GMT

> pine thinks it is two addresses - 1stnumber@local domain and 

And zillions of you folks out there wrote to tell me you change the , 
to a . i.e. 12345,[email-masked] becomes [email-masked]

thanks (you know who you are)