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Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 13/10/2010

» Mind your manners! And if you don't know how, you'll want to pay a visit to The Emily Post Institute Etipedia at www.emilypost.com/etipedia, an electronic database of social dos and don'ts, with additional rules about how to behave while on the Internet and composing email (necessary, if some of my correspondence is any indication _ it's extremely easy to come across as rude and abrupt in email since you're not there, in person, to see the reaction of the person reading your email. It can be difficult to tell if one is joking or serious, being ironic or purposefully unpleasant, with those visual cues from normal conversation).