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Message no. 1
From: Paul Gettle <RunnerPaul@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: IMC? [Was: My take on Essence and related things.]
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:48:46 -0500
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At 04:07 PM 11/21/98 -0600, you wrote:
>> By the book, I would say that it can not be detected. But, IMC
>> cortex bombs
>> have an essence rating to them (0.1), so they can be seen.
>
>IMC cortex bombs? ...never heard of them.

IMC is a TLA for "In My Campaign".
(If you don't know what a TLA is, be _glad_.)

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Message no. 2
From: The Bookworm <Thomas.M.Price@*******.EDU>
Subject: Re: IMC? [Was: My take on Essence and related things.]
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 00:01:05 -0600
On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Paul Gettle wrote:

> IMC is a TLA for "In My Campaign".
> (If you don't know what a TLA is, be _glad_.)

HEY!! The fact that there are only 17576 TLA's is a serios problem
in the US computer industry. Not to mention the governmental, business,
and industial uses of those limited number of TLA's. The TLA crisis could
potentialy be much worse than the Year Two Thousand problem. :):):)

Thomas Price
AKA The Bookworm
thomas.m.price@*******.edu
Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: IMC? [Was: My take on Essence and related things.]
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 11:56:52 +0100
According to The Bookworm, at 0:01 on 22 Nov 98, the word on the street was...

> HEY!! The fact that there are only 17576 TLA's is a serios problem
> in the US computer industry. Not to mention the governmental, business,
> and industial uses of those limited number of TLA's. The TLA crisis could
> potentialy be much worse than the Year Two Thousand problem. :):):)

Don't you mean the "Y2K problem"? :) (Although technically that's not a
TLA but a TLAANA.)

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Message no. 4
From: Michael vanHulst <Schizi@***.COM>
Subject: Re: IMC? [Was: My take on Essence and related things.]
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 10:58:55 EST
In a message dated 11/22/98 2:59:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, gurth@******.NL
writes:

> > HEY!! The fact that there are only 17576 TLA's is a serios problem
> > in the US computer industry. Not to mention the governmental, business,
> > and industial uses of those limited number of TLA's. The TLA crisis
could
> > potentialy be much worse than the Year Two Thousand problem. :):):)
>
> Don't you mean the "Y2K problem"? :) (Although technically that's not a
> TLA but a TLAANA.)
Shouldn't that be: TLANA? (three letter and number acronym) unless the other A
means something :-)
As for the original, remember also that TLAs in use across many places, but
the same ones are used all over for different things. Besides (like the
police) they might just switch to an all number system :-) (as evidneced by
the TLANA in querstion Y2K which would have been YtK if done by a true TLAer
IMO)
Message no. 5
From: Sean McCrohan <mccrohan@*****.OIT.GATECH.EDU>
Subject: Re: IMC? [Was: My take on Essence and related things.]
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 11:17:27 -0500
Quoting Michael vanHulst (Schizi@***.COM):
> As for the original, remember also that TLAs in use across many places, but
> the same ones are used all over for different things. Besides (like the
> police) they might just switch to an all number system :-) (as evidneced by
> the TLANA in querstion Y2K which would have been YtK if done by a true TLAer
> IMO)

Or YMM, if done by a student of Latin! (Or would that be AMM? :) )

--Sean

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Message no. 6
From: John E Pederson <pedersje@******.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU>
Subject: Re: IMC? [Was: My take on Essence and related things.]
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:15:58 -0500
The Bookworm wrote:
>
> On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Paul Gettle wrote:
>
> > IMC is a TLA for "In My Campaign".
> > (If you don't know what a TLA is, be _glad_.)
>
> HEY!! The fact that there are only 17576 TLA's is a serios problem
> in the US computer industry. Not to mention the governmental, business,
> and industial uses of those limited number of TLA's. The TLA crisis could
> potentialy be much worse than the Year Two Thousand problem. :):):)

Isn't that why we have ETLAs? (err... 26 symbols mapped to ... never
mind. Discrete math <shudder>).

Canthros
JEP, aka LC the OaO ShMa
:)

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