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From: karl@godiva.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Date: 27 Sep 89 02:56:34 GMT
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[canned response #3267: "How to reach
 people inside CompuServe via email"...]

CompuServe subscriber accounts, being numeric of the form "7xxxx,yyy,"
can be reached via email by addressing the mail to
	7xxxx.yyy@compuserve.com
Note the trading of `.' where `,' would have been.  This keeps the
syntax conformant with the relevant Internet RFCs.

CompuServe employees are (in general) reachable under the
csi.compuserve.com subdomain; thus, address such mail to
	username@csi.compuserve.com

CompuServe's mailers accept items up to about 50Kbytes each.  Note
that this is somewhat smaller than people tend to be used to on the
Internet.

CompuServe subscribers reach people Out Here using a person's normal
address prefixed with ">internet:".  This prefix is CompuServe's
generalized gateway access syntax, and does not appear in headers on
the Internet side of the gateway.  Some additional information
regarding addressing sites Out Here can be obtained via "help
internet" in their mailer.

There is no charge to anyone for use of this gateway.  CompuServe
subscribers are still billed their usual hourly rate for connect time,
but there is no gateway-specific surcharge.

I have no information regarding gaining access to CompuServe
otherwise, e.g., as a customer/subscriber.  Address such queries to
postmaster@compuserve.com.

--Karl Kleinpaste
Personification of the Mailer Daemon
Ohio State Computer Science
Instigator of the Internet/CompuServe mail gateway