[Nottingham] *TODAY* Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!)

[Martin]

Folks,

Reminder for *TONIGHT*

> Well, I'll be talking email. Boring or what?! ;-)
> 
> 
> More seriously, we all take email for granted, but how does it all work? 
> And why doesn't it always work? And what about all the SPAM?! And is 
> there an ultimate fix against SPAM?...
> 
> I've just had a few tussles with TNEF in email whereas I would hope 
> everyone has at least heard of MIME for email 'attachments'... And 
> there's other fun!
> 
> Recently, Wietse Venema (who's he?) received the FSF's Award for the 
> Advancement of Free Software. Even if you don't know his name, likely 
> the majority of the worlds email relies upon his freely given software 
> every day.
> 
> 
> So the talk is about how a very old protocol with zero security for text 
> messages (32k bytes max size) has morphed over the decades into handling 
> multi-megabyte attachments of anything and SPAM!
> 
> I may even show how to directly talk email /without/ the aid of an email 
> client :-)
> 
> All at the NAV,
http://www.thenavvy.co.uk/

> Thursday 02/04/2009
> 
> 19:30 meet in the bar
> 
> 20:00 the talk
> 
> 21:00-ish general discussion


All welcome,

See ya there!

Cheers,
Martin




> TNEF:
> 
> http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/microsoft-outlook-tnef.html


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Martin Lomas
martin at ml1.co.uk
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