Some Rules to Follow When E-mailing.

I had to do a project in computer class today about some of the rules of etiquette that you need to folow when you are using e-mail here they are:

*E-mail Etiquette-Being polite and using your manners while communicating online through e-mail.

Don’t get to the point to quick. You are sending an e-mail not a text message. Take time to use your words and be polite.
Don’t use text lingo in a formal e-mail. IE. LOL, BRB. This makes you appear to be some kind of texting addict.
Check over the e-mail. When someone gets an e-mail from you and there major misspellings and other grammatical errors it make you come across much dumber then you may be.
When writing an e-mail use your manners say please and thank you just as you would when you are talking face-to-face.
Be nice in a n e-mail. People can tell when you are getting impatient or in a bad mood by the way you write something. Don’t be too rude in an e-mail. Don’t write in all uppercase letters; I don’t care how cool you think they are. It comes across as you yelling and is not a very good way to write an e-mail.
When sending an e-mail use a formal e-mail address. If your e-mail address is sexymama123@bikini.com then it will not come across to be very serious e-mail. As a matter of fact it will most likely get deleted by the spam filter.
Please comment and let me know what you think about those rules also feel free to leave rules of your own.
Don’t send a very large e-mail. When sending an e-mail keep in mind that people have limited amount of inbox space and bandwidth. They don’t want to spend 30 minutes downloading your e-mail. Instead of attaching all 10 pictures from your vacation. Upload them to a FREE hosting service such as photobucket or flickr.

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Comment by Ralphie Boyo on September 22, 2008 at 8:08am: Good job on these... What I always do, is rely on my Spellcheck... It helps me to not look foolish to those to whom I communicate. Works for me...

RB

Comment by Incanus on September 22, 2008 at 3:11am: Oh, the irony: "Check over the e-mail. When... there major misspellings and other grammatical errors it make you come across much dumber then you may be."

Physician, heal thyself! If you'd followed your own advice and checked what you'd typed you'd have spotted "there ARE major misspellings" and "it makeS you come across..."

OK, so this is a blog and not en e-mail, but I couldn't resist pointing that out!

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Comment by Morticia on September 19, 2008 at 11:01pm: One of my rules is to not write anything you don't want the whole world to know.
I mean, not that you WANT the whole world to know... but you have to stop and think - once you write it and send it to another person, they can basically do anything with it. It's on the net then, and anyone can send it to anyone else and it won't be private anymore. So that's one of the things that I have to keep in mind.
Actually, a few times my friend has accidentally forwarded my email to her entire friends list (she was inviting people to a party and I replied to her, but she replied but to everyone somehow...) it's a good thing I didn't say anything rude about the other guests (though I almost did). I'm really glad I stayed polite, because everyone read that thing!!

Also, there is a spelling mistake in this - it says 'rood' instead of 'rude'. Um... I'm not trying to be mean, just saying this because it goes with the whole 'When someone gets an e-mail from you and there major misspellings and other grammatical errors it make you come across much dumber then you may be' thing.

Anyway, it's pretty good though.