... etika dalam dunia maya ... 

Artikel ini dikumpulkan untuk penyebarluasan etika yang sebaiknya digunakan dalam dunia maya. Tampaknya di Indonesia, seperti dalam bidang-bidang lain, etika di dunia maya kurang dipahami; kalaupun sudah dipahami kebanyakan diabaikan. Semoga bangsa Indonesia bisa memahami dan melaksanakan etika dengan baik.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. — Voltaire

Inilah situs dari internet yang membahas tentang etika berkomunikasi dalam dunia maya terutama dengan email:

• Netmanner's Email Etiquette
  • 5 Essential Elements of Every Email by by Judith
  • 5 Rules for Forwarding Email by by Judith
• RFC 1855, Netiquette Guidelines (http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855)
• Summary of RFC 1855: http://www.albury.net.au/new-users/netiquet.htm
• Wikipedia: different style of quoting in email (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting)
• Netiquette Home Page
• Wikipedia ( http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette)
• Indiana University, Bloominton, Computer Science (Zen and the Art of the Internet)
• Learn the net: Netiquette, Social Media.
• Dear Emily Postnews
• University of Vaasa, Finland (Timo's FAQ)
• Mailing List Manners 101 by Adam C. Engst (http://db.tidbits.com/series/1141, http://db.tidbits.com/article/05386, http://db.tidbits.com/article/5397)
• FAQ About The FreeBSD Mailing Lists
• Aturan penggunaan mailing list berkenaan dengan masalah pribadi:
  • http://www.preemie-l.org/netiquette.html
  • http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html
  • http://www.gistsupport.org/join-or-change-subscription/netiquette-guidelines.php
  • http://www.bclist.org/tips.htm
  • http://www.marthas-web.com/trimming-posts.htm
  • pencarian dengan mesin Google
• Group Etiquette: http://www.computer-help-and-discussion.com/groups.htm
• The Ten Commandments of E-mail "Netiquette"
• Living Internet
• Email Etiquette for Students
• 12 tips for better e-mail etiquette, by Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, The Productivity Pro®
• Ethics and the Internet:
  • Internet Activities Board
  • University of Illinois: Computer Literacy
  • Internet Ethics: Oxymoron or Orthodoxy?
  • University of Georgia: Ethics on the Internet

Seperti dalam dunia nyata, walaupun menggunakan etika, anda tetap bisa berekspresi secara bebas dalam dunia maya. Salah satunya adalah menggunakan smileys atau emoticons, yaitu simbol atau tanda yang dapat kita gunakan untuk berekspresi. Inilah situs yang menjelaskan tentang penggunaannya:

• Wikipedia Emoticon
• Sharpened Glossary
• WordPress Emoticon

Di bawah ini beberapa akronim/singkatan dan smileys atau emoticons yang sering digunakan dalam dunia maya:

SINGKATAN (AKRONIM)

AFAIK        as far as I know
ASAP         as soon as possible
ASCII        American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BITNET       "Because It's Time Network"
BTW          by the way
CERN         'Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleair'
             'The European Laboratory for Particle Physiscs'
             The birthplace of WWW in Geneva, Switzerland;
             (the site is at the border of France-Switzerland)
CMIIW        correct me if I'm wrong
EPS          Encapsulated PostScript
FAQ          Frequently Asked Question
FTP          file transfer protocol
FYI          for your information
GIF          Graphics Interchange Format
HQ           headquarter
HTML         hypertext markup language
HTTP         hypertext transfer protocol
IRC          Internet Relay Chat
IrDA         Infrared Data Association, a group of device manufacturers
             that developed a standard for transmitting data via
             infrared light waves. 
IMHO         in my humble opinion
JPEG         Joint Photographic Experts Group
jupri,japri  jalur pribadi (maksudnya e-mail pribadi)
MIDI         musical instrument digital interface, a standard adopted
             by the electronic music industry for controlling devices,
             such as synthesizers and sound cards, that emit music.
MIME         Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MPEG         Motion Picture Experts Group
NNTP         Net News Transport Protocol
PARC         Palo Alto Research Center (...ini computer
             wizard HQ-nya USA, kepunyaan XEROX)
PICT         standard format for vector graphics in Macintosh OS
POP          Post Office Protocol
PPP          point to point protocol
RFC          Request for Comments
RFD          Request for Discussion
RIFF         Raster Image File Format
RTF          Rich Text Format
rot13        A method for encoding possible offensive posting
SLIP         serial line internet protocol
SMTP         Simple Mail Transport Protocol
SUREL        Surat elektronis/Electronic mail
TCP/IP       Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TIFF         Tagged Image File Format
URL          Uniform Resource Locator
UUCP         unix to unix copy
WAIS         wide area information server
WAN          Wide Area Network
WWW          World Wide Web

EMOTICONS/SMILEYS

    :)      tertawa, bahagia
    :-)     tertawa, bahagia
    :(      susah
    :-(     susah
    ;(      wink (tutup mata sebelah, menggoda)
    ;-(     wink (tutup mata sebelah, menggoda)
    :D      tertawa lebar
    =D      tertawa lebar
    :-D     tertawa lebar