toma@bit.UUCP (Tom Arneberg) (06/16/90)
In article <1990Jun14.213512.5011@oswego.Oswego.EDU> ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes: >In article <5082@zehntel.UUCP> dac@zehntel (Dennis Carlson) writes: >>My Uncle has an account on compuserve. Is it possible to mail things to >>him from Usenet? If so would some kind soul out there tell me how to do it. > >Easy (assuming you have smail or some other intelligent mailer). Let's >say his account on Compu$erve is 1234,5678. You should be able to just >address your mail to 1234.5678@Compuserve.Com. Note the substitution of >the period (.) for the comma (,) in the Compu$erve account number. >If your mailer only understands uucp paths, and you are connected to some >internet site (lets call it big.site.edu) you could try something like >1234.5678%Compuserve.Com@big.site.edu or compuserve.com!1234.5678@big.site.edu. Or, if you're not on Internet and can only use bang-style addresses, find a path to compuserve.com. For example, at our site we're connected to sun, so I can get to a Compuserve user by: sun!compuserve.com!12345.6789 - Tom A. ============================================================================== /\_______\ /\___\ Thomas R. Arneberg, Senior CAD Engineer \/__ __/ / / \ Bipolar Integrated Technology, Beaverton, Ore. / / / / / /\ \ (World's fastest floating point/RISC chips!) / / / /\_\ / / /==\ \ /\_\ UUCP: ...!{harvard!ogicse,sun,decwrl}!bit!toma \/__/ \/_/ \/__/ \__\\/_/ Internet: bit!toma@cse.ogi.edu