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From: ho@fergvax.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...)
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Subject: Re: Is there an Internet gateway to CompuServ??
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Date: 11 Aug 89 19:36:13 GMT
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From article <13576@netnews.upenn.edu>, by chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Chaim  Dworkin):
> 
> Within the past few days someone posted a message (I'm fairly sure it was
> to this newsgroup) mentioning an Internet address to send mail to users
> of CompuServ.  It appeared to say that if a users CIS i.d. number was
> 76543,210 that you could send a message to 76543.210@CompuServ.com
> and the message would be posted in the person's e-mail on CIS.

I saw a note like this encapsulated in FractInt 9.1 (which, in fact, does
not work on my V20-based machine, while FractInt 8.0 and 8.1 did).

I was informed that "compuserv.com" was unrecognized, and "compuserve.com"
gave me the cryptic response "No address, look for MF record" from our
mainframe.

I used nslookup to ask sri-nic.arpa where compuserve was.  It didn't know.
If it doesn't know, we're stuck.

Just another promised but undelivered feature, I suspect.
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	... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska