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, BBSs, social networking, etc. See also Web, Address books and contacts.
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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
Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs)
Programs
- Fido BBS
- Opus-CBCS (BBS software)
- Opus Embedded Commands (OEC)
Networks and protocols
Chat, Texting and Instant Messaging
- AOL Instant Messenger
- ICQ
- IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
- SMS (text messaging on phones)
- XMPP (Jabber)
Standards and protocols
- IMAP
- Internet e-mail message format (RFC 733/RFC 822/RFC 2822/RFC 5322)
- Maildir
- mbox
- POP3
- QWK
- SMTP
- SOUP
Specific programs
- AOL
- AOL e-mail messages
- AOL Personal Filing Cabinet (includes e-mail as well as other things)
- Apple Mail
- Blue Wave
- Eudora
- Gmail
- Hotmail
- Lotus Notes
- Notes Storage Facility (NSF)
- Mailpile
- MLM (Novell Groupwise)
- Outlook
- Nickfile (NK2)
- Personal Folder File (PAB, PST, OST)
- Outlook Express Database (DBX)
- Pegasus Mail
- Pine
- Thunderbird
Forums
Secure messaging
- Crypho
- DeadDrop
- PGP
- PKCS7
- Privacy-Enhanced Mail (RFC 1421)
- SafeSlinger
- Silent Circle Instant Messaging Protocol
- S/MIME
Social Networking
Transfer Encodings
- Base64
- MIME
- Mime-type
- Quoted-printable
- Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF; winmail.dat)
- Uuencoding
- yEnc
Usenet
Links
- Online, Underground: In-progress written history of online messageboards
- Opt out of PRISM: surveillance-free alternatives to things including social networking and messaging
- India to send world's last telegram. Stop.
- How to self-host your own mail server in the cloud
- NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails (Just everybody else's!)
- How can I find out where an email really came from?
- New Encrypted Email Services Coming From Kim Dotcom's Mega And Newzbin
- Lots of vintage BBS software
- LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity
- Dark Mail Alliance - developing end-to-end encryption for e-mail
- TorBirdy: extension to use Tor encryption with Thunderbird
- The Daunting Challenge of Secure E-Mail
