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From: rps2@conexch.UUCP (Richard Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Can I mail to CompuServe from here?
Message-ID: <40042@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 89 19:27:39 GMT
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In article <3050@lab.udel.EDU> C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) writes:
>My question, more specifically, is:  given someone's CompuServe mailbox,
>can I (and how do I) send mail to that person/entity?  I remember seeing
>in Larry Phillip's .signature an address to send to on USENET that would
>put the mail into his CompuServe mailbox.  Now INFO magazine has a CompuServe
>mailbox and it made me wonder how I could send to it from here.  Their
>CompuServe box is 70215,1034.
>
>So how do I do this? (or is it possible in this case?) Just curious, thanks.
>
># Baird McIntosh  "Oh it doesn't seem like this Blue Sky's here for me..."   #
># INTERNET: c503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu <-or-> BITNET: c503719@umcvmb.bitnet #



You can send any mail to CIS by taking the user's PPN, replacing
the "," in it with a ".", and mailing it to the PPN@compuserve.COM.

For example, to send mail to me (my PPN is 75006,1355), send it to

    75006.1355@compuserve.COM

'Nuff said.


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