Hello, world :)
When I was at Carnegie Mellon University, the email system did fuzzy common name matching by default, so you could write a person’s name e.g. harry.bovik@andrew.cmu.edu
and it would try to deliver it to the right mailbox. If you added a plus sign (+
), the system would do an exact match instead of a fuzzy match, i.e. the +
character makes it unambiguous. So in practice, I was jrc+
, and it stuck.