Internet etiquette: mind your e-manners

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Users should employ rules of etiquette on the Internet and other commercial on-line services. Pres Clinton was accused of a violation, when an e-mail message he sent to the Prime Minister of Sweden was written in capital letters, the equivalent of shouting. When Cardinal John O'Connor spent 40 minutes as a guest answering questions on the Prodigy on-line service, he may not have realized that questions written in upper-case letters meant he was responding to a raised voice. Elizabeth L. Post, granddaughter of Emily Post, says users should employ the same rules of conversation they would when communicating normally. Since an e-mail recipient cannot see the sender, users should choose words carefully. Users can employ 'emoticons,' symbols to denote their feelings, to give clues to their emotions. "The Unofficial Simile Dictionary," downloaded from the Internet, includes a host of similes that can communicate user feeling through the use of the keyboard symbols.

Prepackaged software, Electronic Mail Software (Micro), Usage, E-mail, Email, Etiquette, User Behavior, User Relations

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Chinese cruise Internet, wary of watchdogs

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The Chinese government is attempting to establish an infrastructure by which it will be able to monitor the increasing growth of the Internet and the transmission of information in its country. The government has implemented a series of regulations requiring that Internet access providers be closely scrutinized by government agencies. Chinese authorities are concerned with the introduction of externally-based information to its citizens, usually published by dissident Chinese groups based in foreign countries. The high-cost of Internet access and computer equipment has limited the growth of the Internet to relatively few individuals, mostly university-based researchers, students and professors. Despite its attempts to control the information transmitted via the Internet, various sectors of the Chinese government are heavily investing in a telecommunications infrastructure.

China, Telecommunications regulations, Science and technology policy, Government communications regulation

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A study by A.C. Nielsen seeks to separate buyers from browsers on the Internet

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An A.C. Nielson survey tries to answer some basic questions about World Wide Web users and commerce. Despite Web pages priced at $30,000 to $200,000 and advertising bills of $20,000 monthly at popular Web sites, no one knows exactly who browses the Internet and whether commercials are accepted or ignored. Observers do know that consumers are reluctant to buy anything over the Internet. This reluctance has prompted a shift from the early belief that consumers would buy entertainment or information directly from the Internet. The new assumption is that advertising will pay for Web pages. The target of that advertising remains elusive. Companies find that their Web pages experience a drop in hits of as much as 50% if they ask browsers to register. Nielson will use a telephone survey and compare its results with the results of a survey posted on the Internet.

Communication services, not elsewhere classified, Home TV Data Service, Surveys, Electronic commerce, E-commerce, Information services industry, World Wide Web, ACNielsen Corp. (Schaumburg, Illinois), Videotex systems, Online Service Information

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