WHY AN EMAIL GROUP NETIQUETTE GUIDE?
This Netiquette is a condensed version of more comprehensive guides and contains those portions that are pertinent to Email Lists. Some mailing lists have low rates of traffic, others can flood your mailbox with several hundred mail messages per day. Numerous incoming messages from various mailing lists by multiple users, requires extensive system processing which can tie up valuable resources. Subscription to Interest Groups or Discussion Lists should be kept to a minimum and should not exceed what your disk quota can handle, or you for that matter. The primary problem with excessive clutter is that it takes away time and energy of the people reading the lists. This tends to cause people to drop out and create a lack of response to meaningful topics from numerous people due to the amount of time wading through the clutter. The following are few tips that can make participation easier and more enjoyable, while attempting to keep the information that gets on the mailing list pertinent t
