[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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