Email hack
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An email hack is an unconventional email address that uses the commercial at symbol ("@") as the letter "a" in the construction of a email address title.
Although very closely related, an email hack may or may not also be a domain hack converted into an email hack. Unlike a domain hack, it does not matter if the TLD (top level domain) is used as an integral part of the email address title. By definition, "j@m.es" (a variation of the domain hack "jam.es") and "j@mes.com" (a variation of the regular domain name "james.com") are both considered to be email hacks that spell out "James."
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[edit] Naming Convention
The "hack" part of email hack (and also domain hack) is meant in the computer programming sense, not the computer security sense. In other words, an email hack is a hack of the email address standard in the sense that it makes it do something it was not intended to do. It is not a hack in the sense of an illegal security system hack.
[edit] History
The term "email hack" was defined and coined by Matthew Doucette[1] in October 2004[2] while programming a domain hack and email hack search utility[3].
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Domain Hacks - domain and email hack searching utility.
- Domain Hacks & Email Hacks - domain and email hacks explained
- The e-mail n@mes.company - email hacks for sale.
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