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From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: compuserve aliases?
Keywords: workaround?
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.225351.12663@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 91 22:53:51 GMT
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In article <1991Mar22.235011.19753@mtek.com> bbh@mtek.com (Bud Hovell @ Mtek) writes:
>For an address like "73011,3401@compuserve.com", the 'newalias' command doesn't
>like it owing to the comma. Blows up big time.

>I tried putting a backslash in front of the comma, but that didn't work, either.

>Is there any workaround for this?

Yep.  Put a period where the comma was.  Works like a champ,
don't ask me why.

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