[thelist] What is a good analogy for email aliases?
John Meyer
john_meyer at geocities.com
Fri Jun 22 12:32:28 CDT 2001
On Friday 22 June 2001 11:22, you wrote:
> We do e-mail services for a few of our clients (POP3 and forwarding), but
> have a hard time explaining to people what an alias is...
>
> Has anyone come up with some cool, simple analogy that explains it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris.
Simple, it's like a PO Box with no capacity or storage. When somebody sends
an e-mail to it, it automatically gets forwarded to the proper address.
Also nicknames come to mind.
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