It's interesting to see how the concept of 'netiquette' has slowly disappeared - I noticed it the other day in a piece of writing from 2004, and I think that's the most recent use I've seen. I guess part of the reason is that it was mostly technical, and a lot of the the problems it addressed have gone away now.

Every so often bits of the free software community struggle to come to terms with the fact that a few of its members are somewhat lacking in social skills and so you have posts like the oft-abusive mjg59's attempt to explain that, basically, you shouldn't be a dick. http://mjg59.livejournal.com/94420.html Of course he does occasionally ruin this by instructing people to choke on buckets of cocks, but presumably that's ironic.