[LINK] Why www.etc?

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:52 AM 6/12/2007, Glen Turner wrote:
>   gdt at its  -- if the sender was in the University of Adelaide
>and this was seen as an advantage in an age where e-mail addresses were
>typed.

This approach to email also mimics real mail. It made it quite easy 
for me to teach people how to conceptually construct one. Doesn't 
mean they got them typed correctly as there is no standard except for 
the @, country code, and the top level domain. Every other component 
can be almost anything that avoid the set of special characters. Even 
the @ I believe can be substituted with +. I just learned that 
recently when setting up a new email account, but that may not be universal.

Jan


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