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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: compuserve aliases?
Keywords: workaround?
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.003451.4607@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 00:34:51 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.235011.19753@mtek.com> <1991Mar24.225351.12663@macc.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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>>For an address like "73011,3401@compuserve.com", the 'newalias' command doesn't
>>like it owing to the comma. Blows up big time.

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

Simple,
The comma is not legal. The period is.  The kindly folks at the
gateway, saqqara.???.osu.edu fix it at their end.

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