[thelist] What is a good analogy for email aliases?
Morbus Iff
morbus at disobey.com
Fri Jun 22 12:32:19 CDT 2001
>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?
Yup. PO Boxes versus street addresses.
Alias is to email
as
PO Boxes is to street addresses.
I got a ton of metaphors - I work for a Podunkville ISP ;) ...
Morbus Iff
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