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Before taking an online class for the first time, it's wise to familiarize yourself with Internet etiquette, or "netiquette."

Not coincidentally, it also brought the enormous waves of inexperienced users that kept breaking the mores of “netiquette” and provided a source of profitable chum for the early spam- mers.

The netiquette flap reminds me of the sporadic eruption, among British commentators, of objections to "Americanisms" creeping into the language.

Those Usenet readers who feel it is their responsibility to pounce on and flame any posting which they regard as offensive or in violation of their understanding of netiquette.

One of the seasonal rhythms of the Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies who, lacking any sense of netiquette, made a general nuisance of themselves.