What is [n]etiquette?
A. Netiquette is the Internet’s and Usenet’s equivalent to appropriate social behavior. It is being kind, courteous and having tolerance for the other people who share the net with you. Often times without the use of voice or facial cues it is easy to misunderstand each other therefore it is a good practice to give the benefit of the doubt and ask for clarification. It’s use is encourage in this group.
Before posting or emailing a question, please use the available local resources, such as the OpenVMS manuals, the HELP, and the resources and information in and referenced by this FAQ. Please use these first. Also please specifically read the release notes and (if appropriate) the cover letter for the product you are using. (The release notes are generally placed in SYS$HELP:.) Quite often, these simple steps will allow you to quickly find the answer to your own question-and more quickly than waiting for a response to question posted to a newsgroup, too. These steps will save you time, and will also help ensure you have a good reputation with the folks that might be included to answer one of your future questions, a question not covered in these resources. Put another way, if you do not want your questions to be ignored in the future- and please remember that the folks in the newsgroups do not have to answer your questions-you won’t want to “annoy the natives” by asking a question that
This is proper etiquette used in cyberspace (Internet + etiquette = netiquette). You should get the hang of it if you stick around for a while; much of it is common sense – don’t post things that will be rude or uncalled for. This AMN FAQ covers a lot of netiquette. • Why is there so much porn here? A lot of people advertise their webpages, and sometimes they are ones of an adult nature. Most of the time they will e-mail it to you, if they get your address from a post you made. This is why many people use “spamblocks” such as disguising their e-mail address. An example would be: adding “nospam.” to an e-mail address like so: “jslade@nospam.netcom.ca”, so that the e-mail won’t reach you, because the “spammers” more often than not just have “robots” or bots collecting the addresses, therefore can’t remove the spamblock. If you have a spamblock, you can just add a line in your .sig telling anyone who wants to e-mail you to remove the spamblock. • Can we do anything about all of the spam i
