E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums
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* [[XMPP]] (Jabber) | * [[XMPP]] (Jabber) | ||
Revision as of 21:43, 16 February 2013
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.
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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)
- Fido BBS
- FidoNet message packet
- FidoNet nodelist
- Opus-CBCS (BBS software)
- Opus Embedded Commands (OEC)
Chat, Texting and Instant Messaging
- AOL Instant Messenger
- ICQ
- IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
- SMS (text messaging on phones)
- XMPP (Jabber)
- AOL Mail
- Blue Wave
- Eudora
- Internet e-mail message format (RFC 733/RFC 822/RFC 2822/RFC 5322)
- Maildir
- mbox
- Pegasus Mail
- POP
- PST - Outlook Personal Storage Table
- QWK
- SMTP
- SOUP
Forums
Social Networking
Transfer Encodings
- Base64
- Mime-type
- Quoted-printable
- Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF; winmail.dat)
- UUEncoding
- yEnc
