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From: throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Henry Throop)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Several questions
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Date: 18 Sep 89 05:40:36 GMT
References: <3665@blake.acs.washington.edu> <1989Sep17.222953.14160@twwells.com>
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In article <1989Sep17.222953.14160@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>In article <3665@blake.acs.washington.edu> wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (William Lewis) writes:
>: 1.  Is there a way to get mail from Usenet (or Internet or whatever this is
>:     I'm using) to Compuserve? I seem to recall seeing somewhere a
>:     description of a gateway, but at the time I had no need of it.
>
>There is. Someone else will have to tell you how, since I don't know
>the details.

Mail to Compu$erve can be sent by substituting the comma in a CIS user's
ID # for a period, and then mailing them @compuserve.com; for example,
7yyyy,xxx@compuserve.com.  (I'm not sure if that's the right number of 
digits.)

Btw, you can also send mail to MCI Mail users the same way:


------------------------------Original Message-----------------------------
From:  David K. Ely <dely@NRI.Reston.VA.US>

Thank you for your request about MCI Mail.  I am the technical POC for
the MCI Mail Gateway project.

Currently, there is no charge for sending mail from the Internet to MCI Mail.
In order to send mail to users on MCI Mail, use one of the following addresses:

    accountname@mcimail.com
         -or-
    mci_id@mcimail.com
         -or-
    full_user_name@mcimail.com

For instance, I have a mailbox on MCI Mail.  You could send mail to me
via either dely@mcimail.com or 379-3286@mcimail.com or David_Ely@mcimail.com.

Users on MCI Mail can also send messages to the Internet.  At the "Command:"
prompt, type "create <carriage return>.  Then the user performs the following:
(NOTE  the "TO:", "EMS:" and "MBX:" strings are prompts provided by MCI Mail.

    Command:  create <return>
        TO:   David K. Ely (EMS)
         EMS:  INTERNET
         MBX:  dely@NRI.Reston.VA.US

This address is translated to:
    "David K. Ely" <dely@NRI.Reston.VA.US> by the Gateway.

>Bill                    { uunet | novavax | ankh | sunvice } !twwells!bill
>bill@twwells.com

Hope it helps

Henry

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Henry Throop
Internet: throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu