Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!ames!ncar!tank!eecae!upba!dsndata!unocss!ho@fergvax.unl.edu From: ho@fergvax.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Is there an Internet gateway to CompuServ?? Message-ID: <1406@unocss.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 19:36:13 GMT References: <13576@netnews.upenn.edu> Sender: news@unocss.UUCP Reply-To: ho@fergvax.unl.edu Distribution: na Lines: 21 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. --- ... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska