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Re: Can I send e-mail to pay services?

#1680
From: Mickey Boyd
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:20
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In article <0v1tj6k@rpi.edu>, odonnj@jec325.its.rpi.edu (James Robert O'Donnell Jr.) writes:
>Is it possible to send e-mail from the net (internet, bitnet, whatevernet) to
>any of the pay services (GEnie, CompuServe, etc.)? I ask because a good friend
>of mine will be going home to Puerto Rico in a couple of months, and we want to
>be able to correspond via e-mail. (I guess another question would be if anyone
>knows of any place in Puerto Rico from which you can send netmail.) He can get
>CompuServe in Puerto Rico (I don't know about GEnie), and I will sign up for it
>if necessary, but was wondering if there is a way to send e-mail to someone on
>CompuServe, or any of the other pay services.

I have communicated with a Compuserve user using the address:

	XXXXX.XXXX@Compuserve.COM

Where the X's are the compuserve username of the recipient.  I am not sure 
how he sent me mail from Compuserve though (the form of the address, I mean).


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From: boyd@phi.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
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Subject: Re: Can I send e-mail to pay services?
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Date: 16 Apr 92 15:20:37 GMT
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