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** [[Notes Storage Facility]] (NSF)
 
** [[Notes Storage Facility]] (NSF)
 
* [[Mailpile]]
 
* [[Mailpile]]
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* [[Microsoft Entourage]]
 
* [[Microsoft Outlook]]
 
* [[Microsoft Outlook]]
 
** [[Nickfile]] (NK2)
 
** [[Nickfile]] (NK2)
 
** [[Personal Folder File]] (PAB, PST, OST)
 
** [[Personal Folder File]] (PAB, PST, OST)
 
** [[Outlook for Mac Data File]] (OLM)
 
** [[Outlook for Mac Data File]] (OLM)
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** [[Outlook Item File]] (MSG)
 
* [[MLM]] (Novell Groupwise)
 
* [[MLM]] (Novell Groupwise)
 
* [[Outlook Express Database]] (DBX)
 
* [[Outlook Express Database]] (DBX)
* [[Outlook Item File]] (MSG)
 
 
* [[Pegasus Mail]]
 
* [[Pegasus Mail]]
 
* [[Pine]]
 
* [[Pine]]
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* [[Bang path]]
 
* [[Bang path]]
 
* [[NZB]]
 
* [[NZB]]
* [[Usenet message format]] ([http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc850 RFC 850]/[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1036 RFC 1036]/[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5536 RFC 5536]/[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5537 RFC 5537])
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* [[Usenet message format]] ([http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc850 RFC 850]/[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1036 RFC 1036]/[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5536 RFC 5536]/[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5537 RFC 5537]; [https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-17.html Discussion of early Usenet format])
 
* [[UUCP]]
 
* [[UUCP]]
  

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File Format
Name E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums
Ontology

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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.

Contents

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:

Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs)

If Google was an '80s BBS...

Programs

Networks, protocols and formats

Chat, Texting and Instant Messaging

E-Mail

Standards and protocols

Specific programs

Clients

Servers

Webmail services

E-mail archiving

Forums / web comment threads

Messaging service integration

Online Services

(the old, proprietary variety)

Secure messaging

See also Encryption, Security

Social Networking

Transfer Encodings

See also the main article, Transfer Encodings.

Usenet

Links

BBSing

Email

Newsgroups/Usenet

Social networking

Misc.

Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Actions
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