Netiquette
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The term of "Netiquette" (network etiquette) represents a set of social conventions easing the interaction using networks and vary from Usenet and e-mails to blogs and forums. These rules have been described in IETF RFC 1855 (Internet Engineering Task Force). However as many other phenomena on the Internet the concept and its application vary from one community to another.
The most enhanced point on Usenet netiquette are: simple electronic signatures, avoiding multi-posting, cross-posting, posting off-topic, etc.
History
The Netiquette started before the WWW was launched in 1991. E-mails based on text, Telnet, Gopher, Wais and FTP were dominating the traffic at that time. It was considered to be indecent to make commercial postings and due to limitations and insecurity of text communication it was required that this communication to have a set of rules.
Common features
There are common rules for e-mail and Usenet like avoiding spam or typing words in uppercase.
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