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This article is from the alt.tv.red-dwarf Primer FAQ, by Raz raz@mushroom.demon.co.uk with numerous contributions by others.

4. Common-sense Ettiquette (a.tv.r-d Primer)

Here's a little guide to making life here absolutely peachy:

a) Don't post test messages... Send them to the misc.test or alt.test
groups instead. You get automatic acknowledgements, that way, and it
saves you being murdered in a variety of interesting ways.

b) Don't overquote. Why, say, quote an entire 100 line message just
to add 'I agree', at the bottom? Old arguments are boring: people
wanna see your juicy *new* stuff!

*One exception here is Spoiler space. There's no problem in quoting
*the minimum ammount of Spoiler space from a previous post.

c) Keep line length around the 70-75 character mark, as it is here.
Apart from being viewed on various machines, your posts will get
quoted, so space is needed to fit the quoting symbols in.

d) DON'T WRITE ENTIRE MESSAGES IN UPPERCASE - IT'S A BUGGER TO READ!
Uppercase indicates shouting. Do it occasionally by all means but
not too much, it'll lessen the effect =).

e) Use something to show your humour, sarcasm, etc. It's easy to be
misinterpreted, otherwise! Smileys are the most common form of
shorthand expressionism... :-) =) :) :-(

f) Be interesting, charming, witty, incisive, sexy... you get the
idea, and if you really *have* to play the guitar, please put on a
spacesuit and do it outside. :)

 

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