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The Netiquette Page

MIT Stopit deals with cases of misuse of MIT's computer systems. We endorse proper communications behavior, sometimes called netiquette. We know that certain messages do offend people. However, MIT does not monitor nor attempt to control the content of electronic communications. Unless a message contains something that is illegal, we prefer to err on the side of freedom of speech and do not remove offensive speech.

If you're interested in some background on e-mail etiquette and netiquette, here are some sites to check out:

Internet RFC 1855 on Netiquette Guidelines

http://web.mit.edu/rfc/rfc1855.txt

 

Professor Steven Lerman's article on "The Mixed Blessings of E-Mail"

HTML: http://tute.mit.edu:8001/fnl/www/1_200/lerman.html
PDF: http://tute.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena/org/f/fnl/www/fnl123.pdf

 

The oldest reference to the Etiquette of E-mail (that I could find)

http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/R3283/

 

An oft-cited work on netiquette

http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

 

A fun site on netiquette...

http://promotions.yahoo.com/promotions/netiquette/