E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums

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Revision as of 17:50, 13 January 2013

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

Formats for the storage or transmission of messages (singly or in groups) for electronic mail, discussion lists, forums, newsgroups, message areas of BBSs, etc.

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)

Chat, Texting and Instant Messaging

E-Mail

Forums

Social Networking

Transfer Encodings

Usenet

Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
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