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Netiquette are those actions you perform to prove you know better. Many people don’t know better. Perhaps they could do better if they were aware of their actions.

If you know better, you do better, and thus, without needing to lecture, give an example of better.

One of the most annoying things is when you receive an email in which 90%  are addresses to whom it was forwarded. Whomever sent this email it to you had to have scrolled through screens of addresses. Yet, s/he sent the email to you without the courtesy of removing them.

Your reaction on receiving such an email is to delete all the addresses and send it back to whomever sent it to you.

You don’t have to mention it is a waste of bandwidth to forward an email, which may consist of a joke or inspirational story, with ten screens of forwards. Removing the headings when they are sheer addresses is simple courtesy. “Don’t Choke the Bandwidth” is a key tenet of Netiquette.

So it is at the beginning, so too at the end…when you receive an email made up of every single call and response from the conversation began.

When it is not a business email in which a history might be relevant, delete everything after your response, or after the remark you are responding to. When one is dealing with email, less is more. The shorter clearer email is what you strive for.

Only include addresses when they are relevant to the email. If they are merely the history of every single person on Earth who has read this joke, they don’t need to be preserved.

Only include past remarks if they are relevent to the conversation.

Emails should contain only what is necessary and not a keystroke more.