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That's still not name indirection, this is more like a 302, because your physical mail goes first to the company and then gets moved around.
by imglorp 8y ago
That's still not name indirection, this is more like a 302, because your physical mail goes first to the company and then gets moved around.
- mbreese 8y agoBut the person who sent the mail doesn't know where it ends up. These services are exactly like what the parent was talking about -- someone sends a letter to a virtual address at the mail aggregator service, and the service then sends the letter on to your physical address. A 302 is like a letter that's been marked return to sender with a forwarding address. The original sender would then know the actual physical address.
- imglorp 8y agoTrue, 302 was the wrong analogy. But the good point here is that there are three kinds of indirection, not two.