TCP/IP Email Aliases and Address Books
Email is analogous to regular mail but superior to it due to two main advantages of digital and electronic communication. One advantage is speed, which is why modern Internet users have come up with the slang term snail mail to refer to the regular postal service. But the other advantage, flexibility, is also essential. Email allows you to send messages easily in ways that would be cumbersome with regular mail. And one of the ways this flexibility can be seen is in addressing.
The first way that email addressing is flexible is that most email clients support advanced features that allow users to specify the identity of recipients in convenient ways. While TCP/IP addressing is fairly straightforward, remembering ...
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