RFC 2142 - Mailbox Names for Common Services, Roles and Functions

RFC stands for Request For Comments. Not all RFC documents end up as standards. But it is indeed a good read to find out how standards works. For example, RFC 2142 list emails that should be reserve for its purpose :

MAILBOX ----------------	AREA -------------------------	USAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INFO	Marketing	Packaged information about the organization, products, and/or services, as appropriate
MARKETING	Marketing	Product marketing and marketing communications
SALES	Sales	Product purchase information
SUPPORT	Customer Service	Problems with product or service
ABUSE	Customer Relations	Inappropriate public behaviour
NOC	Network Operations	Network infrastructure
SECURITY	Network Security	Security bulletins or queries
POSTMASTER	SMTP	[RFC821], [RFC822]
HOSTMASTER	DNS	[RFC1033-RFCå1035]
USENET	NNTP	[RFC977]
NEWS	NNTP	Synonym for USENET
WEBMASTER	HTTP	[RFC 2068]
WWW	HTTP	Synonym for WEBMASTER
UUCP	UUCP	[RFC976]
FTP	FTP	[RFC959]

The above email list are taken from RFC 2142 http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt

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