User talk:David MacQuigg

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Welcome to the computers group!

Trust-related issues are definitely of high priority. I definitely would appreciate any comments on Domain Name System security, and there's just a start on messaging application protocols. There's also something of a start on the broadest level of information security.

Of course, original contributions are very welcome as well. Let me know how I can help. Howard C. Berkowitz 03:24, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Created a personal sandbox for you

I have taken the liberty of creating a personal sandbox page for you. To access your sandbox, just click on the link labeled My sandbox in the upper, left-hand corner of your User page. Once you get there, you can click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the page and you can:

• Practice writing articles in the Wiki markup language.
• If you already know the Wiki markup language, you can draft any articles you want to write and keep changing them until you are completely satisfied with them ... and then you can create a new article by cutting and pasting the sandbox article into the new one.
• You can invite other Citizens to visit your sandbox, review a prospective article that you wrote in sandbox, and ask for their comments/critique before you proceed to cut and paste it into a new article.

Don't know what the Wiki markup language is? Click ==>CZ:How to edit an article    Another excellent way to learn the Wiki markup coding is to click on the "Edit" tab at the top of any article and see how the markup coding was used there.

Enjoy! Milton Beychok 04:41, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Using Related Articles

While the Related Articles page will take any text, it's really designed to use Template:R, which has lots of options. Let me give you some basics. Incidentally, I am using, in edit mode, an escape sequence so I can show you the commands; start out looking at this in normal page mode.

I'm in the middle of rebuilding my OS, so I may not have my regular email working for a bit -- trying to figure out how to get Outlook to import the settings from the old boot drive, now mounted non-boot.

Assume you are on the page Management domain/Related articles

Now, enter:

==Subtopics==

{{r|Administrative management domain (email)}}

{{r|Private management domain (email)}}

When you save, you'll have a red link for both topics, and a gray area for the definition.

Clicking on the red link will create an article page. Just to start, put in some brief words and save.

Now, search for ADMD, and it will ask if you want to create it. Answer yes, and type in #REDIRECT [[Administrative management domain]] and save.

You should have a blue link to Administrative management domain.

On the Management Domain related articles page, click in the gray area on Administrative managemet domain, and you'll get prompted to enter a definition. Write a sentence or so and save. Page back to the related articles page, refresh, and you should see a blue link to the article, and a filled-in definition.

Howard C. Berkowitz 18:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Greetings

Howard pointed you out as someone with overlapping interests, and he's right. I've mostly been working on cryptography-related articles, which of course tie in to email, authentication, and such. There need to be quite few links. Certainly PGP needs mention in email articles. Probably ssmail as well. I've done something on FreeSWAN, but not opportunistic encryption yet.

Are you aware of the Global Trust Register? Their introduction is online. Sandy Harris 11:16, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Be it ever so humble an edit, I'm glad somebody is reviewing DNS! Howard C. Berkowitz 00:30, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Anycasting

David, I noticed that you are editing a copy of Anycasting in your sandbox. Why don't you edit the page itself. If you do so, your changes can probably be included with the approved version. I also can postpone the date of approval for you to finish and then discuss the changes. Peter Schmitt 23:48, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

According to your message on the talk page of Anycasting, you have copied your sandbox draft to that page. But it is not there. Did you change your mind? Peter Schmitt 18:38, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

I edited the draft page yesterday. Preview looked OK. Clicked Save Page. It looked OK in that session, but a separate login showed the old page. This has happened before, and waiting usually solves the problem. I guess it didn't this time. I tried again just now. Now things seem to be OK. No delay in accepting updates from Save Page. --David MacQuigg 18:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Email History

Hi David, yes I did previously read your delightful comments earlier. Thanks for that. I'm currently writing another article at the moment. I'm probably not as knowledgable as you, since my background is not really computers. Most of what I know was when I started using the internet in the early 1990s and had a boyfriend who was a computer engineer. He had these wonderful books and magazines on the subject where I picked up some of the history from. Meg Ireland 09:27, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Ah, I wondered how a music major had such knowledge of this topic. Should we list the sources of your article? I'm new to CZ, so I'm not yet comfortable with using these talk pages for extensive discussions. If you send me your email address I will communicate directly. --David MacQuigg 09:42, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

I am reluctant to give out my email address. The following references were used:

• http://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html

• http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html

• http://www.webcastr.com/videos/informational/how-email-works.html

• http://www.usps.com/history/history/his1.htm

• http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/classes/F04.176A/homework1_good_papers/jay-akkad.html

• http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ota/Ota_4/DATA/1982/8214.PDF

• http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm

• http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/internet_history80s.htm

• Hardy, Ian R; The Evolution of ARPANET Email; 1996-05-13; History Thesis; University of California at Berkeley

• Higgs, Edward (ed.) (1998) History and Electronic Artefacts. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198236336

• Naughton, John (1999) A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet. Universities Press. ISBN 8173712816

Meg Ireland 10:09, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks. I'll add some of these to the links and/or bibliography pages. By the way, I'm having trouble getting my links to show as normal blue links instead of black. I assume that means there is something missing like a definition. I've corrected everything I can see, but the links are still black. See the section "Security protocols" in http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Email_system/Related_Articles for examples. The link to Sender Policy Framework and three others are still black. --David MacQuigg 10:23, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't see any black. You fixed it, I gather? Howard C. Berkowitz 19:41, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Security subgroup

Have a look at the subgroup page. Consider adding articles and adding yourself as a member. Sandy Harris 05:52, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Sandy, but I don't feel qualified yet in the broad field of computer security. My work is in email system security. My sandbox articles on cryptosystems are just for a class in cryptography. If I find time to develop them further, I'll move them from my sandbox to the regular articles. Your comments on my sandbox pages are welcome. --David MacQuigg 17:38, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Cloud computing and outsourced messaging

I've been doing an article on cloud computing. Some vendors call their outsource messaging, especially archiving that includes IM and other things beyond email, a cloud service, although they tend to be inconsistent at the architectural level. My assumption is that if it has a direct end user interface, either to a desktop or mobile device (e.g., Sidekick) it's Software as a Service, but if it's at the level of the mail server, it's Platform as a Service.

Increasingly, though, I've been moving the messaging-specific material out of the article, thinking it deserves its own. Do I remember you were considering such? In any event, your review of Cloud Computing would be appreciated, especially after I took a hard look yesterday and concluded I had absolutely no idea what I was trying to say in one section. Right now, my focus is both on the security aspects, and also trying to cut through the marketdroids and pinning down virtual server, cloud service, and virtual data center. I am going to invite some technical vendor (and research) folk to review and preferably contribute.

Variants of Eduzendium

I've been thinking of going to some mailing lists in routing certification, and offering the equivalent of Eduzendium for modern networking. No, I won't be vendor specific although I might use some multivendor examples. Would there be any interest on your campus? Could this be a good operational test of a curriculum?

I would expect participants to be writing, but with guidance, and, preferably, in teams. Some email and Forum discussions among people who have run Eduzendium suggests that unless it's a team project, or possibly at a senior undergraduate/graduate level, the average student writes offline, dumps, and never wiki-collaborates. Howard C. Berkowitz 19:40, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Returning to Citizendium: an update on the project and how to get involved

Hello - some time ago you became part of the Citizendium project, but we haven't seen you around for a while. Perhaps you'd like to update your public biography or check on the progress of any pages you've edited so far.

Citizendium now has over 16,000 articles, with more than 150 approved by specialist Editors such as yourself, but our contributor numbers require a boost. We have an initiative called 'Eduzendium' that brings in students enrolled on university courses to write articles for credit, but we still need more Editors across the community to write, discuss and approve material. There are some developed Computers articles that could be improved and approved, and some high-priority Applied Sciences articles that we don't have yet. You can also create new articles via this guide, and contribute to some Computers pages that have been recently edited - or to any others on Citizendium, since you're a general Author as well as a specialist Editor. You may like to contribute to discussions in the forums, and might consider running for an elected position on the Management and Editorial Councils that oversee the project.

If you have any questions, let me know via my Talk page or by leaving a message below this one. Thank you for signing up and reading this update; I hope that you will look in on our community soon. John Stephenson 13:40, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi John. I've been involved in other projects for the last two years, but this semester, I am back to teaching. Citizendium is a great resource, and I hope to have time to get involved again. --David MacQuigg 20:32, 22 January 2012 (UTC)