Netiquette

Courtesy: Digit Magazine


When communiating with others on the Internet, observe the following common-sense net-etiquette. This 'Netiquette' should be observed whether you are writing an email message, participating in a chat session, or posting a message on a Bulletin Board.
Netiquette can be defined as behaving properly on the net. Just like good manners are appreciated in real life, good manners on the net are appreciated too. Remember they might not be really big things. To get your netiquette right though, you do have to get the little things right. Every drop is responsible for the existence of an ocean! It will earn you respect among fellow users of the internet.
Here are some basics you need to be minimally familiar with in order to be taken seriously in your online communications.
Do not type in ALL CAPS. Typing in all caps is considered yelling or screaming online. Those who type in all caps are percieved as lazy and not being considerate of those who will have to read their email. Various studies on the topic reflect that it is more difficult and takes longer to read text that is typed in all-caps.
Do not leave the 'Subject' field blank. Fill it in with a brief and concise description of the content of your email. Thi is very important in helping those you communicate with, helping them organise and manage their email. Avoid using all caps or all small case, terms such as "Hi', 'Help' or 'Please Respond', or the recipient's name in the subject field, as you may be misidentified as a spammer, and your email automatically deleted.
On occasions where it is necessary to send a group of people the very same email, as a courtesy to those you are sending the mail to, list all recipients' email addresses in the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) field. When an email address is designated in the BCC field, the recipient will get a copy of the emailwhile their email address remains invisible to the other recipients of the email - some or all of whom they may or maynot know.
Long lists of email addresses at the beginning of any email is an immediate sign that the sender is either a novice/newbie-or doesn't care to respect others' privacy. None of which, I'm sure you'll agree, are complimentary perceptions. Email addresses are like phone numbers. Only the owner of the email address or phone number should be able to authorize who they want to have it and make it public to.
Most people prefer to decide for themselveswho has their email address. By sending mass emails to a list, you have made that decision for them-and that is a breach of assumed privacywhen communicating. Let those you correspond with determine for themselves who they will make their email address known to-do not make that decision for them!
If you are new online, raise your right hand and repeat:
"I will not forward any dumb joke, 'chain letter' or unimportant emails to my friends without their permission."
"I understand that by doing so I may fill up their inbox, use others' resources unnecessarily, and may cause other important email to bounce."
"I understand that most people have seen these emails a million times and find them annoying."
"I know that by forwarding these so-called humorous emails I may offend or tick-off people who donot share my sense of humour or who are sick of having the same set of stupid emails forwarded to them each time a newbie hops online."
There! Now, that wasn't too bad, was it? Hopefully, you will no longer be tempted to forward those jokes, untruthful oe frivolous emails which instruct you to forward them to your friends! And you'll avoid looking silly and uninformed in the process. read them if you must, then hit 'Delete'. You don't believe those emails that state that certain things will happen simply by you forwarding the mail to 10 friends, do you?
Related Link: Snopes.com
Never give out phone numbers or personal information without confirming that you are communicating with a reputable party. Never give out personal contact information of others without their specific permission to do so.
Always compress or 'zip' large files before sending. Many people who are new to the online world do not realise how large documents, graphics or photo files (Especially .bmp files) are. Guess what-they are large enough to fill soemone's email inbox and cause their other mails to bounce! Get in the habit of compressing anything over 200kB. ( You can view file sizes in Windows® by selecting the file and clicking 'ALT + ENTER'. (OR, right-click and choose 'properties'. )


a much better database is given in wikipedia.

the link is provided here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette

be cool. be happy. thts the only means to enjoy lif!

1°Don’t worryWorry is the least productive of all human activities and thoughts….

2° Don’t let needless fears preoccupy your life... Most of things we fear never happen!!!.

3° Don’t hold grudges... That is one of the biggest and most unnecessary weights we carry through our lives..

4° Take on one problem at a time It’s the only way to handle things anyway..one by one..

5° Don’t take your problems to bed with you. They are bad and unhealthy companions for good natural sleep and rest...

6° Don’t take on the problems of other people.. They are better equipped to handle their own problems than you are..

7° Don’t live in the past. It will always be there in your memories to enjoy..but don’t cling to it. Concentrate on what is happening right now in your life..and you will be happy in the present also..not just the past.

8° Be a good listener. It is only when one listens..that one gets and learns ideas different from ones own...

9° Do not let frustration ruin and rule your life... Self pity more than anything..interferes with positive actions..with moving forwards in our lives.

10° Count your blessings... Don’t even forget the smallest blessings.. As many small blessings add up to large ones...

I'M BAK!

Its after soo long, i'm back up in here, doing what????
Oh ya,, Giving a Spark to my thoughts...
This time, I'm taking a break.
Its not about books, Its not any stupid Adds. This time, Its about LIFE!!!
I know, U guys are pretty bored with these dump Philosophies..
But, I'm what I'm. And for knowing what I'm, you'll have to go through all these Craps..

This time, I'm talking about LOVE.
I'm a simple person. A man, who wishes not to take any chances. For, he have read and heard, "if burs on ur hand hurts, those on ur heart hurts much more." Oh! ya, it hurts like hell!!!

Love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack. not in contentment.Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself
but, Love's CRAP. ya, Its full of Bullshit.

Its a river of ICE, soo turbulant.. something like an avalanche.. Furious enough to break the strongest of wills blocking the way. We hav to fight a flow, wrestled with impaccable tide that threaten to carry us along, all that is me, into the eternity.. for a heartbeat that took centuries, i hung, wavering, balenced on the brik of being scoured away like sand before a flashflood.when, with infinite slowness the balence firmed, it was still as though standing barefoot on a razors edge above a bottomless drop...
Hell, whatever it is, its CRAP.

I, not even in my wildest dreams, thought that i'll be proposed, much worse, loved!
I never saw her. like hell, i wanted to. But never had the chance. Looking back, I thank Lord tht I never had the chance.
or perhps, It was His Will!

I never thought of beauty. For even before thinking about all those stuffs, i was hit.By tht bloody cupid with his bloody shortbow bolt at point blank.
So Numb. Unable to think. to act. to do any stupid thing, to save my bloody soul.. All I could do was, submit myself.
perhaps, again to His Will!

oh! about her..
She was the kindest of all.. She could read my mood in my lines.. see the history of my whole day, without me telling her, in a conversation of few minutes.
she was great at understanding me. and a great prankster too.. hah!
Its saidd only opposite poles attract. She was nevr like me. Not even in a single way. I could almost say, She was the perfect anti-jeevan. Immatured. She nevr planned or even tought of future. nor about the past. All she did was to submit to me..For, she loved me. But then, she would complete me.
attain the tranquility.. ecstacy!

And she would walk to Shelob's Lair to get me.

Alas. HIS fucking WILL coming into bloody play again.
We proposed, He disposed.
HE BLOODY DISPOSED!!!

alas for us!

Airing my Thoughts!

Now, you guys may be wondering whether I have no other business other than blogging all the day, especially on the day i start blogging. No, its not as u think. I do not want to fill my blog with crap.
Its just.. airing my thoughts..

Well, my thoughts.. They are spread, vast and deep.. sometimes stupid fantasy, sometimes bare realities of life.. and I do speculate that almost all, who ever spend some time, thinking- of life, of pain, of love, of existance, have gone through the same stages in their lives..

So, today I'm going to tell u about my taste in reading.. its not just "taste".. Its some feeling i cant explain.. its a quasi state of eternal bliss.. like walking on a thin line over the Niagra.. Falling from a cliff.. its something so addictive, so adventurous, you cant escape it!.. well, i'll never want to!

By "reading", i mean reading of english prose. And prose mean Fiction.Thats it. Poetry, drama and all, are strictly prohibited..
and one more thing.. you guys may think, whats this much to say about "reading".. well, being heavily influenced by the TV during the small stages of life, living in this small town of kothamangalam, studying in a small school of vimalagiri, of course, the options we had were really limited..ya.. I still think it as a great accomplishment!! I'm not boasting or anything.. u know it :P

I'm just airing my thoughts!

Part-I

During the smaller classes, all i ever read was archies and all the kid stuff.. pardon me.. i did continue with that stuff untill my 7th grade.. Now, at this point of time, all we could think of was archie of course, with some sexy gals.. still searching for more gals..This is all i remember of my feelings and responses when i read those books..
Now that was something I (u have to consider the emotional developments of a smal kid) never understood. or, better put, envied of.. I wished I were in some distant country.. i could hav GF's.. and could go after even better gals.. mmm.. well, one never know, what fate have planned in account of him!!
I never knew!

Part-II

Now, at 7th grade(upto say, 8th).. i came up with some friends.. the name Tom Babu, is really worth mentioning.. He, was typical "good student".. mean, he got brains. so, gets marks. Never bothers to study much.. actually, he never bothers about anything.. but, he do reads a lot (of course, fiction).. and these are things that could influence the guys like me. Well, these were the things which influenced me!!

Now, joining with Tom, searched the libraries.. what did we find? Yep.. the good ol' classics. from Mark Twain to Alexander Dumas.. well, we did read a lot of books then..
And Alexander Dumas and Jack London was the most influencial of them all. I think it was some traits of their compositions, which influenced me deeply..

Jack London, it was the sense of Freedom, Nature, and a world completely unknown to me.
Alexander Dumas, it was the emotions of human mind..mind u, not always the positive ones..
especially, the strong emotions like Valor, Dignity, Honor, Vengence, Loyality, Love, Friendship, Betrayal, and of course, the Lust for money.

Conclusion? I found out, that any composition, written with the middle ages as background, can make me sit in front of any book for hours..

I had found my taste!

Part-III

Tom have come up with some crap. Harry Potter. what the hell!!! here, i'm busy reading the count of Monte Christo.. so, who bothers about some stupid story?? i saw the fromnt cover of the book. som 2 weird looking kids driving a car.. no! flying on a car! err.. now, this's kinda stupid!! how can one fly a car.. who bothers!!

NO. I should bother. Because, this HP is all around in the air. Mean, evryone is talking of it. and evryone wants the book and, hell! none is now interested in reading my genres.. now, when the currnt is in such a way tht u can't oppose, we'll have to go along. ryt? I DID so!

Started reading Harry Potter.

Started from, of course, the Philosophers' stone. mm ok. kinda good. Tehre do be some problems regarding the language.. presentation and all.. but still, ok! kinda good.
Next, Chamber of Secrets.. Now, I told u before. the Dark sides of human emotions did influnce me. Not that i wanted them in my charactor. But still, some sort of influence..
Hell.. i confess. i liked it.. and.. read again and agian.. i do not know what is the driving factor whic told me to read again and again!

Addiction is some kind of nuisance.. like, evrytime u'r supposed to say something, wht comes to your mind is nothing but this funny dialouges.. not that dialouges are funny.. now, looking back it seems, it was kinda kid thing to read..

Eye of God

Now, this foto is one cool pic, i just saw in wikipedia..

Its actually, a Helix nebula, is a planetary nebula (PN) about 650 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius..

The Helix has often been referred to as the Eye of God, on the Internet since about 2003, and also as the "Eye of Sauron" due to its resemblance to said object in the "The Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy.

nice pic.. na?