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.

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)

If Google was an '80s BBS...

Programs

Fido BBS
Opus-CBCS (BBS software)
- Opus Embedded Commands (OEC)
PCBoard

Networks, protocols and formats

Chat, Texting and Instant Messaging

AOL Instant Messenger
ICQ
IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
Puffchat
SMS (text messaging on phones)
Slack
Snapchat
XMPP (Jabber)

E-Mail

Standards and protocols

Habeas Warrant Mark
IMAP
Internet e-mail message format (RFC 733/RFC 822/RFC 2822/RFC 5322)
Maildir
mbox
POP3
QWK
SMTP
SOUP
SPF
T.37 (fax to e-mail)

Specific programs

Clients

AOL
- AOL e-mail messages
- AOL Personal Filing Cabinet (includes e-mail as well as other things)
Apple Mail
Blue Wave
Eudora
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

Servers

Webmail services

E-mail archiving

Sonasoft

Forums / web comment threads

Messaging service integration

Slack

Online Services

(the old, proprietary variety)

Secure messaging

Confide
Crypho
PGP
PKCS7
Privacy-Enhanced Mail (RFC 1421)
ProtonMail
SafeSlinger
SecureDrop (was DeadDrop)
Silent Circle Instant Messaging Protocol
S/MIME

Social Networking

Transfer Encodings

ASCII Encoded HP 48 Object (ASC)
Base64
Crockford Base32
MIME
Mime-type
Quoted-printable
Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF; winmail.dat)
Uuencoding
Xxencoding
yEnc

See also the main article, Transfer Encodings.

Usenet

Links

BBSing

Email

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
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
Verify e-mail addresses online
Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's
The End of History: How e-mail is wrecking our national archive (ironically, the article succumbed to linkrot, but is retrievable from the Internet Archive)
E-mail self-defense guide (encryption)
Carcanet Press Email Preservation Project - Phases 2-3
Framework and Functions of the "MS" Personal Message System (David H. Crocker, 1977)

Newsgroups/Usenet

Social networking

LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity
Free download of danah boyd's must-read book "It's Complicated" (about young people and social networking)

Misc.

@@ Line 188: / Line 188: @@
 * [https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ E-mail self-defense guide (encryption)]
 * [https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:226625 Carcanet Press Email Preservation Project - Phases 2-3]
+* [http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2007/R2134.pdf Framework and Functions of the "MS" Personal Message System] (David H. Crocker, 1977)
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