Wherefore art thou, Compuserve.com?

[Eric Sheppard]

In article <5535 at amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, samlb at pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) writes:
| 
| 	As it was explained to me, the syntax for sending mail to a
| Compu$erve subscriber from the Internet is:
| 
| 	71735,1776 at compuserve.com	(My PPN, by the way)
|              ^
| 	     Note "," instead of "."
| 
| 	I suppose that 'wherever!compuserve!71735,1776' might work as
| well for uucp routing.
| 	The problem with your example was:
| 
| 	compuserve!mail 7XXXX.XXXX
| 	               ^     ^
| 		       |     A period -- sendmail tried to parse this as a
| 		       |      name or an Internet address, and failed
| 		       |
| 			A space -- not allowed
| 
| Cheers!
| 
This was the response message from whatever mailer was processing the info.
My original message was to 7xxxx.xxx at compuserve.com.
I occasionally use a longer name (from saqqara.cis.ohio-state) if the mail
barfs on the shorter name.  It appeared that even that can fail.

Eric, tinkerer-at-large

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uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!ce1zzes