Why use a special-purpose email address?
This morning, I suddenly remembered an article I wrote about ten years ago and published in one of the local papers in Sydney. The article, now reloaded in this post, was titled “How to create a permanent email address.” In my original article, I suggested ways to creating an email address using your favorite domain name or in fact, your own domain name, which you would like to be your permanent email address. The suggested technique simply involved setting up a virtual (now called, forwarding) email account which you could fashion more aesthetically than the server-restricted, 6-character, and imagination-stretching username email address. Emails sent to a virtual email account were forwarded to a real email account like an email address issued by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) with a mailbox which held your incoming emails until these were downloaded to your local drive. It was actually a very simple technique which utilized the forwarding capabilities of mail servers, with your
