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- From: jamie@access.digex.com (James Treworgy)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
- Subject: Nettiquette briefing
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 17:42:36 -0500
- Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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- Message-ID: <1k4eosINNorm@digex.digex.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
-
- There is an official one, but maybe we need to post a phishnet version every
- now and then. Here's a few things, some may be in the official one, some
- may not:
-
- - Don't type in all uppercase letters. It is very hard to read and
- personally I don't usually bother.
-
- - Hit return at the end of each line unless you are sure your editor
- deals with formatting for you. A lot of newsreaders spill the excess
- back over the beginning of the line, making it pretty hard to
- decipher what was written.
-
- - Have short signature files.
-
- - When you are quoting another article, edit it so only what is
- directly relavent to what you are saying is left. A good rule
- of thumb is, don't quote more than you write.
-
- - Be nice to people. Behind every electronic mailbox is a real person.
-
- - Especially be nice to people if you are ASKING for something, for
- example, tickets to a phish concert. You're a lot more likely to
- get them that way then if you demand that the scapler-scum who
- lurk in phish-net-land sell you the 27 extra tickets they bought
- with the express purpose of reselling at a huge profit to non-
- phish- netters. You get the idea.
-
- - Don't post the same message every day for two weeks because nobody got
- back to you the next day. Some sites don't get messages for a while
- after they are posted. I don't get messages until about 3 days after
- they are posted. (Kinda sucks for me, but sucks even worse when I see
- the same request for tapes or whatever over an over again).
-
- ... the list could go on, but the idea is pretty simple... if you wouldn't
- want to read it from someone else, then don't post it.
-
- -- Jamie
- --
- James A. Treworgy
- jamie@access.digex.com
-