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From: Judy Kelble< >
Subject: [OHHURON-L] Fw: [STATE-COORD-L] AOL/Compuserve info
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:53:10 -0400

Hi All,
Not genealogy, but might explain something if you have been having any
problems with your email....

Peace, Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: Ms. Piglet <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 2:08 PM
Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] AOL/Compuserve info

>What I'm hearing from my users is that aol's response is "not our problem".
>(Isn't that always aol's response?<G>) One user, however, came back to me
>after that and asked for ammunition---the names of other users with the
>problem. Armed with that, aol started seriously talking to her.
>
>
>Speaking of AOL, here's something that I discovered by accident this week,
>that neither company seems to be telling it's users (and few of its
>workers):
>
>If any of your cc's are on either AOL or Compuserve, and they try to email
a
>user at the other site normally (i.e., AOL user sending mail to
>), it's going to bounce back to them as user unknown.
>That does *not* mean there's no such user.
>
>Since AOL bought out Compuserve, they've started to use a common pool of
>screen names, and treat mail to each other as in-house. So what you need
to
>do to email that mythical Clyde is to treat it as if it weren't a different
>company (since it isn't, anymore)---in other words, from aol, just send the
>mail to " Clyde " as if it were an aol user (or vice versa). It will go
>thru fine.
>(If you check your sent mail later, you'll find it lists that compuserve
>person as
>" ".)
>
>piglet (megan zurawicz) ICQ: 18429839
>genealogy-- http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~piglet
>quilting-- http://pages.prodigy.net/mspiglet
>theatre-- http://members.aol.com/tupacratz/poohpix.htm
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Stowell <>
>To: <>
>Date: Tuesday, 04 May, 1999 12:22
>Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] AOL access problems
>
>>See what AOL can tell you about this.
>
>

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