New and noteworthy for 9/12/08
State of the Art - On Internet, You’ve Got (Paper) Mail: David Pogue at the New York Times reviews the Earth Class Mail service that receives your postal mail and allows you to view scans of your mail online as PDFs (unfortunately not by email) and have the original forwarded or destroyed. The service touts its strict security procedures and recently added optional feature to automatically deposit checks.
Soon in a Mail Box Near You: Internationalized Email Addresses: Patrick Vande Walle at CircleID mentions the most recent experimental RFCs (not standards track) that covers modifications necessary changes so that Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) would be viable in email email addresses. The experimental RFCs are: Internationalized Email Headers (RFC 5335) SMTP Extension for Internationalized Email Addresses (RFC 5336), Internationalized Delivery Status and Disposition Notifications (RFC 5337).
The E-Mail Age: NPR’s series on the social impact of email included pieces on kids, vacations productivity, encryption, workplace issues, email overload, and spam. The pieces include both print and audio.