EMail Etiquette

E-Mail Etiquette Introduction This document is intended to offer guidance to users of electronic mail (e-mail) systems, whether it's a twelve-year old computer nerd's BBS, one of the dinosaur services like AOL-ful, Compu-Snore or Prodigee-wiz, or the vast world of the Internet. Although it's geared towards users of the afore-mentioned services, it has sections that apply to all types of e-mail systems. This is not a "how-to" document, but rather a document that offers advice …

…you want to post an entry to a newsgroup, make sure it's the right group. Posting a message for help for Microsquish Word in the WordImperfect newsgroup won't get you anywhere other than a possible flame (there's that word again). One last no-no for news groups is called "spamming". Spamming is repeated posting the same message to a particular news group(s) for no other reason than to be obnoxious. This is definite flame bait.