Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!bu.edu!dartvax!coat.com
From: andyb@coat.com (Andy Behrens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Wherefore art thou, Compuserve.com?
Message-ID: <21301@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 9 Apr 90 03:50:57 GMT
References: <7733@hydra.gatech.EDU> <5535@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU
Reply-To: andyb@coat.com
Organization: Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse
Lines: 20

Samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) writes:
> ....syntax for sending mail to a Compu$erve subscriber from the Internet is:
>
>	71735,1776@compuserve.com	(My PPN, by the way)

Make that
	71735.1776@compuserve.com

Close.  The comma really does get changed to a period when you're
sending mail.  (Commas, and most other punctuation marks, are not
allowed in the user part of a user@domain address -- unless it's
quoted.  Periods *are* allowed).

--
Live justly, love gently, walk humbly.
					Andy Behrens
					andyb@coat.com

uucp:   {uunet,rutgers}!dartvax!coat.com!andyb
Burlington Coat, PO Box 729, Lebanon, N.H. 03766	(603) 448-5000