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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Internet & America Online: How to email between?
- In-Reply-To: grant@valinor.mythical.com's message of 12 Jan 93 00:43:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <CKD.93Jan12161237@loiosh.eff.org>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:12:39 GMT
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- MG> == Mark Grant <grant@valinor.mythical.com>
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- MG> I can tell you one thing about AOL. They allow screen names with 2
- MG> words separated by a space. Internet doesn't like that. If you
- MG> replace the space with "." (period), AOL postmaster returns the
- MG> message. If you mash the screen name together, same thing.
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- This is incorrect. I send a fair amount of mail to people on AOL with
- screen names like "AFC Wonko" (not really that, but you know what I mean)
- and I just mail it to afcwonko@aol.com, and they get it.
-
- Don't use a period, just mash it together.
- --
- Christopher K. Davis | ``Usenet seems to run much like the Kif (or,
- <ckd@eff.org> EFF #14 | for the TV generation, Klingon) high command.
- System Administrator, EFF | Whoever takes action and can be heard wins.''
- +1 617 864 0665 [CKD1] | --Peter da Silva <peter@ferranti.com>
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