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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: compuserve aliases?
Keywords: workaround?
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.035459.25244@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 25 Mar 91 03:54:59 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.235011.19753@mtek.com>
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Organization: NYC Public Unix
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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?

In writing to a PPN of the form MMMMM,NNN at CIS, the comma must be replaced by
a dot anyways, so even if you got your alias to work, no mail would be
delivered. Make it 73011.3401@compuserve.com.

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