Basic courtesy
A quick lesson in Greytalk Etiquette and Netiquette
Keep messages concise, clear, and polite.
Don't get upset about message received, particularly mistakes made by beginners.
NEVER send a message while angry or upset. Sending messages that attack or are abusive is known as flaming. However, disagreeing with someone is *not* the same thing as flaming.
To use a patently absurd example, someone might post:
“I like to dress my children in green clothes,” and someone else may write in saying, “I never dressed my kids in green because I don't like that color.” Someone else may respond, “I have read warnings that dressing children in green is dangerous; they could be mistaken for grass and eaten by cows.”
None of the responses above are flames. Flaming is a personal attack, for instance, someone writing: “You are the worst mother in the world because you dressed your children in green.”