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Mailing list etiquette: Best practices for creating, maintaining and participating

Mailing list etiquette - best practices for creating, maintaining and participatingMailing lists are an essential community and support tool, and I myself participate in a good handful ranging from beta tests to individual app support and even simple enthusiast chatting on one topic or another. In my experience, I've found that a number of things do and don't work from both a management and participant side, and I thought it would be helpful to start a discussion about these best practices to see if I'm on the mark, or if you readers have other ideas that should make the cut.

Following are two sets of mailing list etiquette that I've put together. One for those creating and managing lists, and another for those participating on them. If we can all agree on at least a few, may they be written in digital stone for future generations to benefit from.

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IM Etiquette

im etiquetteIf you telecommute, you probably live in IM. Even if you don't live by the wire, it's easy to die by the wire, because IM's aren't saved as drafts (unlike those nasty emails you should never send). Stowe Boyd, CEO of Blue Whale Labs, has done what Letitia Baldrige failed to do: bring some civility to the land of OMFG's and WTF's. His Instant Messaging Etiquette just made it to the front page of digg (where maybe they could use a few tips as well), and it is worth every ACII character of a read.

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