[LINK] Why www.etc?

[Antony Barry]

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> From: Paul Brooks <pbrooks at layer10.com.au>
> Date: 10 December 2007 11:11:50 AM
> To: Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au>, Glen Turner <gdt at gdt.id.au>
> Cc: link list <link at anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Why www.etc?
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> Scott Howard wrote:
>>
>> On 12/7/07, Paul Brooks <pbrooks-link at layer10.com.au> wrote:
>> The '+' is a fairly recent development used only within the Cpanel
>> webhosting system as far as I know.
>>
>> "Recent" is obviously a fairly relative term, but the concept of  
>> using + in addresses has been around for at least 10 years,  
>> although it wasn't necessarily natively supported in most MTAs at  
>> that stage (It's only the receiving MTA that needs to support it -  
>> not the sender or anyone in the middle).  Sendmail needed 1 or 2  
>> extra config lines to support it.
>>
>> It's used far more extensively than cpanel, and is supported by  
>> most MTAs, including most webmail services.
>>
>> For years I have been using different addresses within my own  
>> domain to differentiate where mail has come from, and in at least  
>> two cases have been able to confirm legitimate (?) companies  
>> selling addresses  (or in one case, if you believe them, "the  
>> addresses were stolen when our system went in for repair").
>
> Scott (and Glen) - check back to the original message, I think we  
> are all correct.
>
> You are referring to using a '+' symbol as part of the user-part of  
> an email address - yes, this has been supported for a long time, as  
> 'user+bit at domain'.
>
> In the message I responded to, Jan said:
>> 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, as I read it, was referring to replacing the '@' symbol with a  
> '+' symbol, constructing addresses like 'user+domain' instead of  
> 'user at domain'. This, as far as I know, is a Cpanel configuration  
> specialism not widely used elsewhere.
>
> at least, I doubt if I'll get this delivered to 'link 
> +anu.edu.au'.....nope.
>
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