Simple Guide to Digital Decorum

Here are 10 Netiquette that one's should observe on the net:

1. First impressions.The agreed formula is to begin with the name of the addressee: don't use the fuddy-duddy "Dear Bob," but simply "Bob." A cheery "Hiya" is over familiar.Simply launching into your message is unduly abrupt, unless the two of you are regular correspondents rapidly sending messages back and forth.
2. Mind your manners. NEVER WRITE MESSAGES IN CAPITAL LETTERS - it's considered the Internet equivalent of shouting. Because e-mail takes place in the absence of the recipient, it lacks the inhibition imposed by their presence (even if only on the phone), so it's easy to be rude or think that e-rudeness doesn't matter.
3. Think before you send. E-mails fired off in haste may cause lifetimes of repentance. Before you press that button, pause. Do you really mean that insult, threat or offer of money? Would you like to get the message you're about to send? Are you prepared to honor any offers or threats you make?
4. You've got mail. Always check your messages. Only a fool would leave his post lying around unopened or not listen to his answering machine.The same applies to your e-mail inbox. There is a film producer who hands out his e-mail address but say, "Don't bother e-mailing me. I never check it." Why have it in the first place?
5. Cyberspeak with care. Picasso was a technically brilliant draughtsman, so when he painted women with both eyes on one side of their heads he did so as a matter of creative choice. Similarly, you should not write e-mails in abbreviated or poor English - such as "c ya tonite" or "lol", meaning "laugh out loud" -  unless you have demonstrated a grasp of the real thing. Otherwise you risk being exposed as a fake.
6. Don't techno-bully. The Internet has its own snobbery, and Web geeks can be terribly rude to those less computer literate. The considerate e-mailer, however, never look down on those who can't work the latest gizmos and checks with the recipient that they have the equipment required to read a message or open an attachment. It is not a crime to be baffled by the Web, particularly since its greatest experts are often baffled by real life.
7. Beware mass mailing. It is never flattering to receive an e-mail then discover it has been sent to hundreds of others. Mass mailing are acceptable when sending jokes or invitations, but unacceptable as chain letters. If you have to send a message to everyone in your address book, keep the other names hidden using blind carbon copy (bcc), unless you know they are friends or colleagues.
8. Say something nice. Some etiquette experts feel that invitations, acceptances and thank-yous should be sent via old-fashioned post. I disagree. More-over, a positive e-mail, be it words of congratulations or affection, can brighten the day.
9. Never e-dump lovers. On the other hand, it is bad form to give anyone the heave-ho by e-mail. If you must write, rather than see them face to face, it is more respectful to do so by hand. The casualness of e-mail is as insulting as it is dismissive.
10. Write for the record. Use e-mail as a chance to recreate the joys of letter writing. Telephone conversations vanish into the ether, but all the e-mails you've ever sent or received are sitting on a hard disk. Who knows? Others may want to read them some day. So remember to put some care into your correspondence. 

Frustrated Victim of Forward Email

I got this email a long time ago, but i didn't delete it because its so funny. Also that, most of us are aware of scams through forwarded email, but you'll never know maybe someone are still getting fooled by this emails. Here is the email of someone who's a victim about this.

Dear All,

I want to thank all my friends and other unknown people
who have forwarded chain letters to me in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and
you because of your kindness.

I stop drinking Coca-Cola after i found out that it's good only for removing toilet strains.

I stopped going to the movies for fear of sitting on a needle infected with AIDS.

I stopped using my ATM card because I am afraid that someone might have installed a small device on the ATM machine that will stole my ATM card number and my pin when typing it.

I smell like a wet dog since I stopped using deodorants because they cause cancer.

I don't leave my car in the parking lot or any other place and sometimes I even have to walk about 7 blocks for fear that someone will drug me with a perfume sample and try to rob me.

I also stopped answering the phone for fear that they may ask me to dial a stupid number and then I get a phone bill from hell with calls to Uganda, Singapore and Tokyo.

I also stopped drinking anything out of a can for fear that I will get sick from rat feces and urine.

When I go to parties, I don't look at any girl, no matter how hot she is, for fear that she will take me to a hotel. drug me, then take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice.

I also donated all my savings to the Amy Bruce account. A sick girl that was about to die in the hospital about 7,000 times. (Poor girl! shes been 7 since 1993...)

I went bankrupt from bounced checks that i made, expecting the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL were supposed to send me (when I participated in their special email program) would arrive soon.

My free Nokia phone never arrived and neither did the free passes for a paid vacation to Disneyland.

Still open to help someone from Bulgaria who wants to use my account to transfer his uncle's property of some hundred millions.

Made some hundred wishes before forwarding those Dalai Lama, most of those "Wishes" are already married (to someone else)

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you do not send this e-mail to at least 913760 people in the next 10 seconds.

a bird will sh*t on your head today at 4:00pm

Now give me a break!!!