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Who remembers the Compuserve octal, numerical email addresses?

As the title says, who does remember them?

I still have my ten digit one and is fully active.

IIRC it was the then user's account number, and mine came in 'xxxxxx,xxxx' format where the comma had to be replaced by a period.
The text mode __browser__ CIS, (Compuserve Information Srevice), was accessed using the MS-DOS software provided.

Also if memory serves me correctly to send an email it had to go in the format:-
INTERNET:xxxxxx.xxxx@compuserve.com ...

My ancient Compuserve email address was issued around 1991 and the text mode __browser__, (term used loosely), was replaced by a Windows 3.1(1) GUI front end installed from two 1.44 MB floppy disks that gave one the option of having an alias instead of the numerical one; I opted out and kept my numerical one...

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       qmail-getpw - give addresses to users

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