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In article <1992Jun2.145022.13651@chinet.chi.il.us> wmf@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Fischer) writes:
>mpm3@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>
>>I have some friends who don't have access to a campus computer, but do
>>subscribe to Prodigy (sp?).
>>it is possible to send e-mail to people on Compuserve, and was
>>wondering if the same thing is possible for Prodigy.
>
>Prodigy is a closed system. No gateways to ANY outside services. 

Just another reason to not like Prodigy...

Anyway, now that it's been mentioned, I just thought I'd throw out how to get
into/out of Compuserve from the internet.  (In this case, 'internet' is any
Internet site, or UUCP site that groks Internet-style @ addresses.)

TO COMPUSERVE FROM THE INTERNET:
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You must know the recipient's Compuserve ID; for the purpose of demonstration,
let's pick a funny number such as 72359,1234.  Send your mail to:

	72359.1234@compuserve.com

Note that the comma is replaced with a period.  The message and all associated
headers will arrive in the recipient's mailbox.

FROM COMPUSERVE TO THE INTERNET:
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You must know the recipient's internet-style address; for the purpose of
demonstration, let's pick a funny recipient such as drutin@zork.com.  Send your
mail to:

	>INTERNET:drutin@zork.com

Note that the key here is the ">INTERNET:" construct.  If you find out what the
gateway internet machine to Compuserve is called--easy enough to do, just send
yourself a message and look at the headers, but I don't feel like carrying out
the exercise--you could substitute a 'bang' path, I suspect.

Now the bad news:  Whoever is the Compuserve sender OR receiver is billed for
the mail on a per-message basis.  Yes, if I send you mail, *your* Compuserve
account is billed for it.  If you send me mail from Compuserve, your account
is billed for it.  (Now you know why I didn't use *my* Compuserve account ID
as the example...know anyone's account that you really hate?...)

Have fun...