That was a nice tutorial! I did something similar too before creating Mailhero.
And regarding the confusion about stuff before the @-sign: I have gotten "Wow, you work here?!" a million times too... :)
And regarding the confusion about stuff before the @-sign: I have gotten "Wow, you work here?!" a million times too... :)
What I have discovered as well, is that gmail/hotmail/yahoo addresses are so ubiquitous, that call centre staff get very confused when your email address doesn't end in one of the 'big three' domain names.
Also don't get me started on the problems I've had trying to explain that yes, .io is a valid domain ending for an email address...