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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    24 days ago

    Bottom-posting eMails and Usenet posts.

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

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      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”

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        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.