For people interested in electronic mail, here is a booklist in the area of electronic mail (e-mail) also known as message handling systems.
Originally written: 28 June 1999
Minor revision 28 Nov 2015
by
Jacob Palme e-mail: jpalme@dsv.su.se.
Warning 1: I am the author of one of the books. I have tried to be impartial, but you should be aware of the risk of partiality when I review my own book.
Warning 2: This list was originally made in 1995, and has not been updated with books published after this time.
Title: Electronic mail
Author:
Jacob Palme
Size: 267 pages
Publisher:
Artech House Publishers 1995
Comment: A general overview which covers social effects, cost-benefit
issues, legal and ethical issues, technical issues and standards (both Internet
and X.400).
More info about this book.
A comparison of the two overview books above: Palme gives better coverage of social effects, cost-benefit, wide-area network issues, distribution lists and group communication than Blum-Litwack, while Blum-Litwack gives better coverage of services and products on the commercial market and of local area network issues.
Palme's book have many pages describing the X.400 e-mail standard, which never suceeded. Today (2015), only the Internet e-mail standards are broadly used.
Title: E-mail: Achieving local and
global communications
Size: 155 pages
Publisher: Computer Technology Research Corp. 1995
Comment: I have not read this book, but from the promotional
material it seems to be a shorter and more popular book than the two books reviewed
above, and more directed at the information needs of company executives.
Title: Introduction to X.400
Author: Cemil Betanov
Size: 371 pages. Publisher:
Artech House Publishers 1992
Comment: A very complete and readable presentation for those
who really wants to learn all about the X.400 standard.
More info about this book.
Title: Electronic Mail: An introduction
to the X.400 Message HandlingStandards
Author: Sara Radicati
Publisher: McGraw-Hill 1992
Title: X.400 Message Handling, Standards,
Interworking, Applications
Authors: Lanz, Mueller, Walter
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
1995
Title: The X.400 Blue Book Companion
Author: Carl-Uno Manros
Size: 116 pages
Publisher: Technology Appraisals Ltd, Great Britain, 1989
Phone +44-181-893 3986, Fax +44-181-744 1149
(Only available directly from the publisher)
Comment: Aid for those who know the 1984 version of X.400 and
wants to read and understand the 1988 version.
Title: The X.400 Blue Book ASN.1 Modules
and Index, 2nd Edition
Author: Carl-Uno Manros
Size: 241 pages
Publisher: Technology Appraisals Ltd, Great Britain, 1991
Tel +44-181-893 3986, Fax +44-181-744 1149
(Only available directly from the publisher)
Comment: Full index and full ASN.1 specifications of 1988 version
of X.400, important for implemenetors and others who really want to know all
about X.400.
Title: PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
Author: Simson Garfinkel
Size: 393 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
Comment: According to Michael J. Taylor, Lotus, this is an
excellent book for both novices and experts. Part I explains cryptography and
some history, Part II provides the how-to details of using PGP.
Title: Connections: New ways of working
in the networked organization
Author: Lee Sproull and Sara Kiesler
Publisher: MIT Press 1991
Comments: A stimulating in-depth presentation of the effects
on organizations of using e-mail.
Another review of this book.
Title: The smiley dictionary
Author: Seth Godin
Publisher: Peachpit Press 1993
Comment: About smileys, character combinations to forward emotional
information, e.g. ":-)".
Title: Smileys
Author: David W. Sanderson
Publisher: O'Reilly
and Associates 1993
Comment: Another book about smileys.
More info about this book.