Reading 1:Ettiquete

While the writers for "Netiquette" were more colorful in their presentation, both sites essentially said the golden rule: treat others how you would want to be treated.
Emailreplies.com offered more detailed information-recalls, cc's and Bcc's, font and text formating etc.-but essentially e-mail etiquette comes down to common sense. Be polite, be professional, and be considerate.

One point that Netiquette brought up is that e-mail and internet correspondence is becoming increasingly impersonal. Networkers are too used to dealing with lit screens instead of human faces, and using BTW's and LOL's instead of English. Our vernacular is actually changing to incorporate internet slang into daily speech, which I find disgusting.

I do dissagree with emailreplies recomendation of leaving the conversation thread. Obviously there are some cases where you would want the conversation history, but for the most part e-mail programs, gmail for example, thread the conversation automatically; leaving past correspondence in the body of the text only serves to clutter up the space and sometimes bury the information. A good subject line should serve to remind what the content is about, instead of 40 lines of past-sent typeface.

Moral of the story, check what you're writing, check who you're sending it to, and try to be as informative and brief as possible.