netiquette

plural netiquettes · alternative Netiquette

1. InternetcountableuncountableConduct while online that is appropriate and courteous to other Internet users, and may be expected or enforced by others.

   Top-posting and spamming are considered poor netiquette on a newsgroup.

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   I would like to propose a netiquette rule, but I don't know where to post it.

   1990 November 5, Dave Jones, “netiquette suggestion”, in news.misc (Usenet), message-ID <14434@goofy.megatest.UUCP>

   Manners count. On Usenet, the term is netiquette, and in the soap-opera group that Ms. Baym studied, it resembles professional courtesy.

   [1992 December 1, William Grimes, “Computer as a Cultural Tool: Chatter Mounts on Every Topic”, in The New York Times, page C13

   I have bad netiquette. Every week this column ends with information on how to write to me. And, every six to 12 weeks, I get around to checking my e-mail.

   2010 May 5, June Casagrande, “A Word, Please”, in Burbank Leader

plural Netiquettes

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of netiquette.

   In order to help us keep a clean and decorous house, we have in operation (a) the Netiquettes already in force while we were based at MIT; (b) the newly passed Rules.

   1997 September 21, Dare Afolabi, “From the List Admin: Cleaning up the House”, in soc.culture.nigeria (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025

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   There have been several posts lately about the rights of people to post here, and there seems to be some confusion as to whether the traditions govern this Newsgroup. They do not. Netiquette applies here. […] Any member is welcome here as long as they behave appropriately within the guidelines of responsible Netiquette.

   1996 July 27, Mick C., “This Is Not Narcotics Anonymous”, in alt.recovery.na (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025

   I have some GENERAL questions pertaining to what discussants in newsgroups sometimes do, and want to hear your opinion about them, with respect to (a) Netiquette, (b) ethics, and (c) legality. […] For brevity, you may rate each ACTION above using these codes: a1: acceptable within Netiquette a2: questionable in Netiquette a3: clearly unacceptable in Netiquette

   1999 August 8, Reef Fish (Large Nassau Grouper), “Matters of Netiquette, Ethiics,^([sic]) and Legality”, in rec.scuba (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025

   It is a dream to think that Internet will be one big anarchy. It never was and never will. It only means that some newsgroups are practcally dysfunctional because of the lack of Netiquette and because of abundance of abuse.

   2000 March 29, Sam Ghandchi, “The Ignore List (Rules of Netiquette)”, in soc.culture.iranian (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025

   Some Netiquettes are hypocritical and dishonest to the point of preferring the bloat (even in Plain Text) over anything kind, efficient and true (even in HTML or XLS or else); many others are the opposite.

   2006 October 10, Michel Merlin, “Bruce, help!”, in microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025