Preventing Digital Divides in Email

"Netiquette" has developed over the decades of Internet operation. Its prime purpose is to ensure that anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can communicate with anyone else with a computer and an Internet connection, regardless of the computer's power, operating system, or software.

Netiquette is all about preventing digital divides!

This section of the website is a result of my frustration at being deluged with oversized, hard-to-read, privacy-breaching, time-wasting, virus-laden email. Why, when there is so much information available on what works, would anyone launch into email without appearing to care whether or not it's conveying their message efficiently and well?

I don't really understand why people get offended when it's gently pointed out that there's a more efficient or accessible way of using email - there's no shame in not knowing such details when you're starting out.

Wilful ignorance, on the other hand...

Unable to find an answer to this question, I've made a collection of useful quotes on email etiquette. Maybe my correspondents will be less offended by / take more notice of a web reference than email advice.

The sources of these quotes are well worth a look - many are fun to read, and all are clearly explained.

 

Here's a handy "first rule of email":
Always check the To: field before you send!

- Darrell Burkey during Email - Tips & Tricks
(CASE meeting, 30 April 2002)

 
 

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Page created 28 January 2002; last updated 08 November 2005