E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums
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Formats for the storage or transmission of messages (singly or in groups) for electronic mail, discussion lists, forums, newsgroups, message areas of BBSs, etc.
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Abbreviations, conventions, etc. in messaging
Online messages can be a language all their own, with different dialects for different types of messages, but often "leaking" from one service to another. Here are a few of the things to watch out for:
- Emoticons - smileys, frowneys, etc :-)
- Hashtags, at-signs, retweets, etc. - Twitterisms that often turn up elsewhere
- Txtspeak - various abbreviations sometimes used in chats
BBS Message Sections
Chat, Texting and Instant Messaging
- Blue Wave
- Eudora
- Internet e-mail message format (RFC 733/RFC 822/RFC 2822/RFC 5322)
- Maildir
- mbox
- Pegasus Mail
- PST - Outlook Personal Storage Table
- QWK
- SOUP
