Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!mvb.saic.com!ncr-sd!crash!jadpc!jdeitch
From: jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: compuserve aliases?
Keywords: workaround?
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.082335.13992@jadpc.cts.com>
Date: 25 Mar 91 08:23:35 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.235011.19753@mtek.com>
Distribution: na
Organization: Network Engineering Technologies, San Diego, CA.
Lines: 25

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?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bud Hovell
>-- 
>____________
>bud@mtek.com
>"...never forget that most soldiers hate warriers." - W. E. B. Griffin

Yeah, to reach someone at compuserve you should be using a dot, not a
comma.  Fix that and all should work ok.  (At least it works here).

Jim

-- 
ARPANET:    jadpc!jdeitch@nosc.mil
INTERNET:   jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com
UUCP:	    nosc!jadpc!jdeitch