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.
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 username match instead of a fuzzy match, i.e. the + character makes it unambiguous. So in practice, I was jrc+ , and it stuck.