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Netiquette, [1] a colloquial portmanteau of network and etiquette or Internet and etiquette, is a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks, ranging from Usenet and mailing lists to blogs and forums. Like the network itself, these developing norms remain in a state of flux and vary from community to community.
When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting styles.. The main options are interleaved posting (also called inline replying, in which the different parts of the reply follow the relevant parts of the original post), bottom-posting (in which the reply follows the quote) or top-posting (in ...
The original GNKSA author thought that many newbies to Usenet posted malformed or inappropriately-sent articles because their software did not encourage better netiquette. For instance, software which made it easy to confuse replying to a sender by email with posting a followup to a newsgroup led to users mistakenly publishing what was intended ...
Usenet (/ ˈ j uː z n ɛ t /), USENET, [1] or, "in full", User's Network, [1] is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture.
Netiquette Guidelines: October 1995: Netiquette: RFC 1918 : Address Allocation for Private Internets: February 1996: Private network: RFC 1928 : SOCKS Protocol Version 5: March 1996: SOCKS5: RFC 1939 : Post Office Protocol - Version 3: May 1996: POP v 3: RFC 1945 : Hypertext Transfer Protocol—HTTP/1.0: May 1996: HTTP v 1.0: RFC 1948 ...
A newsreader, also known as a news client, is a software application that reads articles on Usenet, either directly from the news server's disks or via the NNTP. The well-known TCP port 119 is reserved for NNTP. Well-known TCP port 433 (NNSP) may be used when doing a bulk transfer of articles from one server to another.
The Pan newsreader for GNOME. A newsreader is a software application that reads articles on Usenet distributed throughout newsgroups. [1] Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), to download articles and post new articles. [2]
I removed the lines about Neal Patterson, since they don't seem particularly relevant to netiquette. Netiquette is usually concerned with the social conventions of good behaviour over online communication systems; civility in emails might qualify, but the Patterson story isn't so much about him being uncivil as much as his emails being leaked.