* Even though this isn't a fair housing site, it should be in your "favorites" or "bookmarks" folder: the
Netiquette home page is located at wise.fau.edu/ netiquette/netiquette.html and contains lots of information about the effective composition and usage of e-mail.
If I had to place a priority on the items in my
netiquette list, the item at the top would be, DON'T send attached files with viruses.
The rules, in place at the Tribune for over a year, also cover Net etiquette, or
Netiquette.
To use the medium effectively, it pays to follow the code, often referred to as
netiquette.
A Canadian court has ruled that sending unsolicited commercial email (UCE or spam) is a violation of
netiquette, and that ISPs are entitled to disconnect customers for committing such violations.
The Internet alone (amazingly, the term was only added in 1997) has spawned a brood of 12 nouns: newsgroup, chat room, clip art, home page, hyperlink,
netiquette, netizen, screen saver, search engine, spam, URL, and World Wide Web.
This includes a glossary to all the terms you'll encounter, a guide to '
netiquette' (the rules of on-line chatting) and a history of the Internet,
In additi6n to formatting materials appropriately to convey your marketing message, be sure that your e-mails follow proper "
netiquette." The word is a combination of the words "Internet" and "etiquette" used to describe appropriate behavior online, and particularly in online interpersonal communications.
* Make sure that your child's school has an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) that includes a list of acceptable and unacceptable activities or resources, information on "
netiquette" (etiquette on the Internet), consequences for violations, and a place on the policy form for you and your offspring to sign.
Netiquette: Listservs have developed their own rules for what's proper and what's not.
The authors discuss e-mail, news groups, discussion lists,
netiquette, and briefly describe the hardware and software necessary to get on to the Net.
Maybe, it's time to append our earlier
Netiquette Guide (see ACCN - Apr 1999):
* Guidance on personal uses of the sys tem (if any are allowed) and suggested
Netiquette -- internal, external and inter national.
For example, a lesson of "
Netiquette, Copyright and Citing Internet Resources" describes acceptable school policies and what copyright means when it applies to online information and how to attribute such information.
