[thelist] What is a good analogy for email aliases?
John Meyer
john_meyer at geocities.com
Fri Jun 22 20:03:25 CDT 2001
At 01:07 PM 6/22/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Hey. Thanks everyone for their responses. We're prolly going to test out
>call forwarding and PO Box.
>
>And no, cracking out the dictionary doesn't really help out for the entire
>process (which is a large part of the incomprehension). An alternate what?
>A pointer? Why? What? A pseudonym? Nome de plume? Pen name, even?
>
>It may as well be Greek. They really do need something practical that
>they've more than likely experienced that we can draw the analogy to.
>
A pointer comes from programming, and it basically is a variable that
"points" to another variable. Just tell them that if somebody sends them
an e-mail to their alias, it will end up within the same e-mail account.
John Meyer
john_meyer at geocities.com
Programmer
If we didn't have Microsoft, we'd have to blame ourselves for all of our
programs crashing
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