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What are some of the rules about the Internet that were taught to you but are now completely ignored? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Bottom-posting eMails and Usenet posts.

Fuck you, Microsoft. Bottom-posting replies is the correct way to reply.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Is bottom-posting some kind of kink I'm not aware of?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Maybe it's in the following example, or the inverse?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

German here, I remember teaching people email etiquette and reminding them: “No TOFU” (Text Oben, Full quote Unten).

Means sth like “text above, full quote below”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Quote above, reply below was the eMail and Usenet standard from the 70s until Microsoft introduced Outlook, and more importantly, bundled Outlook Express with Windows in the mid to late 90s. Those were the first products that automatically top-posted by default, and especially on Usenet, you could almost always correctly identify an Outlook Express n00b by virtue of them top-posting.