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Cix Etiquette
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Introduction
Using a conferencing system is different to talking to someone face to
face. There are no visual clues as to how a person may be feeling when he
leaves a message, and the brevity which most peoples typing encourages, can
often lead to messages implying a rude or abrasive tone when no such
attitude was intended.
Because of this, you should always think carefully before you say something
in a message. If it could be taken two ways, try re-phrasing it in a less
ambiguous way. Also, when reading someone else's message, try to consider
it carefully before leaving a highly abusive reply (called a Flame in CIX
parlance). It could be that you are getting worked up about something that
in ordinary speech you would laugh at.
Don't let all this put you off leaving messages. If you stick to the
guidelines, and avoid being deliberately aggressive, people will be glad to
talk with you and help you through any problems you might have.
Upper And Lower Case
Lower case on CIX is the normal case for leaving messages, upper case is
used to highlight certain words. Normally the upper case words are
highlighted to make the message read better, sometimes they are just used
to SHOUT a certain point across.
Expressing Your Mood
To help avoid such misunderstanding, a number of visual conventions have
been developed. One of the most important of these is the Smiley ':-)' or
one of its many variants (look at it sideways).
When this appears in a message it means that the sender was only kidding,
and you should not take the preceding statement(s) at face value.
:-) Happiness *sigh* Frustration
8-) Happy with New Glasses *smirk* Superiority
:-( Sadness *grin* Happiness
:-O Shocked
:-| Indecision
;-) Nudge-Nudge, Wink Wink
(|-) Robo-Smiley
Abbreviations
AFAICR As Far As I Can Recall
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFAIR As Far As I Recall
AGAN As Good As New
AIUI As I Understand It
BSF But Seriously Folks
BTDT Been There, Done That
BTW By The Way
CIX Compulink Information eXchange
CLI Command Line Interface
CUL See You Later
FCS For Christ's Sake
FOAD Go Away And Die
FTR For The Record
FUD Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
FWIW For What It's Worth
FX Effects (as in FX: Kicks cat in frustration)
GUI Graphical User Interface
HWSTWH He Would Say That, Wouldn't He
IBM Its Being Mended
IGABW I've Got A Bigger Willy
IMHE In My Humble Experience
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IRMC I Rest My Case
ISTM It Seems To Me
ISTR I Seem To Recall
ITSM It Seems To Me
IYDMMA If You Don`t Mind Me Asking
IYSWIM If You See What I Mean
NALOPKT Not a Lot of People Know That
OLR Off Line Reader
OTOH On The Other Hand
OTT Over The Top
PITA Pain In The Bottom
POV Point Of View
ROFL Roll On Floor Laughing
RSN Real Soon Now
RTFM Read The Friendly Manual
SO Significant Other (spouse)
SOTA State Of The Art
TAIISAT Take An Interest In Sex And Travel
TBW That Blasted Woman
TIA Thanks In Anticipation
TIAPSA This Is A Public Service Announcement
TLA Three Letter Abbreviation
TPTB The Powers That Be
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
UA Unusual Abbreviation
UTCCH Until The Cows Come Home
VGI Very Good Idea
WAGI What A Good Idea
WAIDW What Am I Doing Wrong
WHY What Have You
WIWAB When I Was A Boy (Southern version)
WIWAL When I Were A Lad (Northern version)
WTF What The Flip
Using Moods In Messages
As you read the conferences, you will see how experienced users dot
them around, but, useful as they are, overdoing them can make a message
unreadable. :-)
Double Posting Messages
Other CIX users will often get annoyed about people double posting
messages in conference. It is easily done, for instance it could be
done completely by mistake when using an offline message reader which
breaks down After a double posting there may be many messages from
the other users ranting on about the amount of time it took to download
the double posting or some sarcastic comment about an echo. Don't let
this bother you, they have all done it at some point as well and they
are costing themselves more money by adding these flame messages.
Having said this, you should take care not to double post.
There is another type of message CIX users get really annoyed with,
that it when someone posts a blatant advert in the wrong conference.
There are conferences and topics for this sort of message. The vendors
conference, or the classified conference or a topic in a conference
called sales or something like that.
Especially when posting a message, DO NOT copy the message to more
than one topic in a conference, you can safely assume all members
of one topic will also be members of all the others. It is also not
wise to post multiple messages to multiples conferences, if you really
feel you need to then post the long message in a suitable conference
and in a couple of slightly less suitable conferences put a short
message saying see message conf/topic message number n for more information
on whatever the message was about in the first place.
People have got very bad names on CIX for blatant advertising, and
copying long messages in multiple conferences and topics, believe
me it was bad for their business.