where does +detail come from?

[Steven W. Orr]

On Thursday, Mar 25th 2004 at 10:23 -0500, quoth p.lussier at comcast.net:

=>
=>I'm looking for the definingin moment in history where someone 
=>realized/thought/came up with the idea that allowing 'user+detail'
=>in e-mail addresses was a good idea.
=>
=>Someone mentioned they first saw it in relation to CMU addresses
=>in the early '80s, which makes me think it came from Andrew Mail
=>or something.
=>
=>Does anyone have any more specific information than that?

AFAIK it's not a thingy that was slipped in. It really is a standard part 
of the email addressing scheme. It's possible to disable it but why would 
you?

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