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Re: Implementation of Developer's DB



jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl  wrote on 15.01.98 in <[🔎] 19980115115709.36033@wi.leidenuniv.nl>:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:17:26AM +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
> > I thought that the convention was to use ``minused'' addresses for this:
> >   karlheg-cvsweb@debian.org
> >
> > That's certainly the qmail way of doing things, and I seem to remeber a
> > discussion on djb-qmail that concluded that someone who was using plussed
> > addresses was doing so just to be different.
>
> Seeing that the Email Addressing FAQ
> (http://www.qz.to/~eli/faqs/addressing.html) is posted with a subtitle "(How
> to use user+box@host addresses)", I think that plusses are quite common too.

I don't know, but I've used "-" for a long time, and so have others, and  
I've only heard about using "+" end of last year.


MfG Kai


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