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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mail to Compuserve
Message-ID: <1991Jan05.003044.5817@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 5 Jan 91 00:30:44 GMT
References: <1991Jan4.175316.11685@cbnews.att.com>
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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In article <1991Jan4.175316.11685@cbnews.att.com> jrs@cbnews.att.com (Jeff Sherota) writes:
>I would like to send mail to someone at Compuserve, but I don't know their
>ID number.
>
>I've heard that you send mail to a Compuserve user with an address like:
>        12345.6789@compuserve.com       (where 12345,6789 is their ID)

 That's correct.

>Is there anyway that I can send mail to Compuserve using the person's name
>For example:
>     joe.doe@compuserve.com    or  joe_doe@compuserve.com
 No. CompuServe is like the Government or the Army. Numbers are unique, names
are not.

>Or is there a postmaster at Compuserve that would mail me the person's ID.
 No.
 If you don't have Compuserve access yourself, you'll have to ask someone who
does to search for the user's PPN. It might shorten the search if you happen to
know what Forum(s) the person hangs out on.

But unless you're trying to send a surprise birthday message, why can't you
just ask the person you wish to reach what his/her PPN is?

 Jean-Pierre Radley	    NYC Public Unix	jpr@jpr.com	CIS: 72160,1341