[comp.mail.misc] how do you email from internet or bitnet to compuserve?

jude@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Jude Poole) (12/30/89)

I need to mail from my internet (or bitnet) site to a compuserve
user.  I know it can be done, but lost my notes on how; please
email any help (I don't ususally read this group).

Thanks!

Jude Poole
jpoole@ucsd.edu
jpoole@ucsd.bitnet

Walter_William_Kemmerer@cup.portal.com (01/06/90)

Compuserve has recently initiated an access from the Internet into
their network.  You can access a Compuserve Information Service user
from the Internet by sending to his CIS userid like so:

     xxxxx.xxx@compuserve.com

The "xxxxx.xxx" corresponds to his Compuserve userid (which he knows
in the form "xxxxx,xxx".  Just replace the comma with a period and 
fire away.  If a CIS user wants to reply back into the Internet, he
can do so like so (from Easyplex at the To: prompt):

     >INTERNET: user@loc

So for example, I could send myself mail from CIS by sending to:

     >INTERNET: Walter_William_Kemmerer@cup.portal.com

As a CIS user, I can vouch for this service working.  It's not always
real fast, but it seems to work.

Cheers, and good luck in gettin' around in the networks.