What Every Admin Should Know About Email
;login: Enters a New Phase of Its Evolution
For over 20 years, ;login: has been a print magazine with a digital version; in the two decades previous, it was USENIX’s newsletter, UNIX News. Since its inception 45 years ago, it has served as a medium through which the USENIX community learns about useful tools, research, and events from one another. Beginning in 2021, ;login: will no longer be the formally published print magazine as we’ve known it most recently, but rather reimagined as a digital publication with increased opportunities for interactivity among authors and readers.
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As we plan to launch this new format, we are forming an editorial committee of volunteers from throughout the USENIX community to curate content, meaning that this will be a formally peer-reviewed publication. This new model will increase opportunities for the community to contribute to ;login: and engage with its content. In addition to written articles, we are open to other ideas of what you might want to experience.
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I’m regularly taken aback by how far computers and computing have come since I started futzing with computers in 1995. The tools available today are astounding compared to what I was using in 1995.
One of the minor exceptions, of course, is email. Yes, email clients have improved in the past 18 years, but not by a lot. The basics are pretty much the same.
Sadly, not only has the software failed to evolve significantly, people’s use of email has largely not improved since 1995, either. Actually, its use has degraded significantly in the interim. By that, I mean that what was widely regarded as “good netiquette” in 1995 is largely disregarded by folks sending email in a corporate setting. That’s a pity, because what was good practice in 1995 is still best practice today, though perhaps for different reasons.