NTEA Mail Lists
Netiquette and Other Guidelines
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As NTEA's mailing lists
become busier, it becomes more important for everyone to be a good net.citizen
to avoid the sum of everyone's traffic from overflowing everyone else's
mailboxes.
NTEA imposes the following netiquette
guidelines on its lists:
Topics
- Keep messages on-topic: subjects about
Windows NT or likely to be of interest to NT users in Silicon Valley.
- Silicon Valley subscribers: be
mindful of our international audience. Our lists have subscribers all over
the world.
- International subscribers: be mindful
of our local audience. We realize you want to see what Windows NT users in
Silicon Valley are talking about. But remember that means some topics will
be about local stuff.
Reduce "noise"
- Don't send "me too" messages.
One-line replies of agreement are wasteful. But feel free to respond if you
have more to say than simple agreement.
- Do not send or attach entire documents to
the list. Send a URL (web address) where interested readers can find it.
- Remove quoted material from messages you
reply to, except for relevant parts necessary to establish context for your
reply.
- Do not quote more lines of a message than
you actually add in your reply.
- Keep your e-mail signature short - 5 lines
or fewer. This includes the -- separator line, allowing for up to four lines
of content.
Be polite
- All job postings must be pre-approved by
the NTEA Board.
- "Praise in public; criticize in
private." Some disagreements are inevitable but take flames off-line
from the list. If you must correct factual errors on the list, be polite and
correct just the facts. Don't attack the author - be careful about uses of
"you" and "your" in such replies, since they make the
response personal. (You may privately criticize anyone who violates this
if you can do so politely.)
- Consider whether your message is really
worth sending to hundreds of people. If it is, don't hesitate.
Suggestions for users of
the lists:
- Think twice before cross-posting messages to
NTEA and other forums.
- Do not BCC anything to the lists - many
people have mail filters which put messages in the list's own mailbox, based
on the address on the message. Failure to put the list address in the
message headers will mess up the mail filing for a lot of people.
- Since the NTEA list has a lot of traffic,
you should filter/sort it into a separate mailbox.
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