Netiquette on the WWW?

dbelson@lynx.dac.neu.edu ((dbelson@lynx.dac.neu.edu))
Mon, 16 Oct 1995 14:33:37 -0700


I'm in the process of researching a potential article on "Netiquette
and the Web", and I'm finding that there is a lack of 'specific'
recommendations or guidelines. Both e-mail and Usenet news have some
fairly well-established, and rather common-sense rules of thumb about
what to send or post, but can these rules be applied to the World Wide
Web?

In thinking about it, I've realized that design issues could also
become netiquette issues. For example, "Don't use black text on a
dark blue background." In the same vein, there are the target browser
issues like "Don't design just for Netscape 1.n" However, these
aren't quite what I'm looking for.

Have you come across or developed any rules of netiquette for the web,
either for a site that you have designed, or for sites that you
maintain? Would issues of "appropriate" content be considered
netiquette issues? Why? What about linking to other sites - should
they be notified or asked? What about the resultant bandwidth/cpu
load from a popular site on a shared server -- would it be good
netiquette to move it to a separate server?

I'm interested in hearing the opinions of those of you out in the
field, and I'm hoping that this ideas can spark some debate, and maybe
even lead to a set of recommendations. Thanks in advance for your input.

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