Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!godiva.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@godiva.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: How do you mail to Compuserve?? Message-ID:Date: 27 Sep 89 02:56:34 GMT References: <7851@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: usa Organization: OSU Lines: 51 In-reply-to: t-jlee@microsoft.UUCP's message of 27 Sep 89 01:18:47 GMT t-jlee@microsoft.uucp writes: Hi, I remember seeing a posting like this but I didn't think I would need it (all the important people are on BITNET, ARPANET, etc. right???). Well I need to contact someone and the only electronic address I've got is his Compuserve number. [canned response #3267: "How to reach people inside CompuServe via email"...] CompuServe subscriber accounts, being numeric of the form "7xxxx,yyy," can be reached via email by addressing the mail to 7xxxx.yyy@compuserve.com Note the trading of `.' where `,' would have been. This keeps the syntax conformant with the relevant Internet RFCs. CompuServe employees are (in general) reachable under the csi.compuserve.com subdomain; thus, address such mail to username@csi.compuserve.com If your host doesn't believe in the existence of "compuserve.com" (BITNET VM and UNIX MILNet users, take note), then you can either [a] upgrade your system's mail software to use nameserver MX records or [b] route your mail "manually," thus: 7xxxx.yyy%compuserve.com@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu You may even have to resort to using "tut" instead of "saqqara." Option [a] is far preferable. CompuServe's mailers accept items up to about 50Kbytes each. Note that this is somewhat smaller than people tend to be used to on the Internet. CompuServe subscribers reach people Out Here using a person's normal address prefixed with ">internet:". This prefix is CompuServe's generalized gateway access syntax, and does not appear in headers on the Internet side of the gateway. Some additional information regarding addressing sites Out Here can be obtained via "help internet" in their mailer. There is no charge to anyone for use of this gateway. CompuServe subscribers are still billed their usual hourly rate for connect time, but there is no gateway-specific surcharge. I have no information regarding gaining access to CompuServe otherwise, e.g., as a customer/subscriber. Address such queries to postmaster@compuserve.com. --Karl Kleinpaste Personification of the Mailer Daemon Ohio State Computer Science Instigator of the Internet/CompuServe mail gateway