| From: | dbuehrer@****.org (David Buehrer) |
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| Subject: | Re: Goofy Acronyms |
| Date: | Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:27:32 -0600 (MDT) |
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|>RTFM :)
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|Ok, now what's that?
Well, WRT to RTFM some of the others allready told you what
it is. BTW, and FWIW, here's some more. YMMV. Please,
don't anyone have a SOHF WRT this SPAM. TTFN. :)
General Acronyms
AFAIK - "As Far As I Know"
AKA - "Also Known As"
ASAP - "As Soon As Possible"
BTW - "By The Way"
BRB - "Be Right Back"
FAQ - "Frequently asked questions"
FYI - "For Your Information"
FWIW - "For What It's Worth"
FUBAR - "F'd Up Beyond All Recognition"
GD&R - "Grinning, Ducking and Running (After snide remark)"
IANAL - "I Am Not A Lawyer (But...)"
IDK - "I don't know"
IMHO - "In My Humble Opinion"
IMO - "In My Opinion"
IYKWIM - "If You Know What I Mean"
IYKWIMAITYD - "If You Know What I Mean And I Think You Do"
LOL - "Laughing Out Loud"
OK - abbreviation of "oll korrect", alteration of "all correct" :
al
OTOH - On The Other Hand
PITA - "Pain In The Ass"
PMFJI - "Pardon Me For Jumping In (another polite way to get into a
running discussion"
PMJI - "Pardon My Jumping In (another polite way to get into a
running discussion"
PS - "Post Script"
TIA - "Thanks In Advance"
TPTB - "The Powers That Be"
TTFN - "Ta Ta For Now"
ROTFL - "Rolling On The Floor Laughing"
RTFM - "Read The F'N Manual
SOHF - "Sense Of Humor Failure"
SWALK - "Sealed With A Loving Kiss"
SPAM - "Stupid Persons' AdvertiseMent "
WRT - "With Respect To"
WYSIWYG - "What You See Is What You Get"
YMMV - "Your Mileage May Vary" (You may not have the same luck I
did)
YWIA - "You're welcome in advance"
Technical Acronyms
ARP - "Address Resolution Protocol"
ARQ - "Automatic Repeat Request"
BBS - "Bulletin Board Software"
BSD - "Berkeley Software Distribution"
CGI - "Comman Gateway Interface"
DES - "Data Encryption Standard"
DNS - "Domain Name Service"
UDP - "User Datagram Protocol"
FAQ - "Frequently asked questions"
FTP - "File Transfer Protocol" (now often seen in lower case as
"ftp")
GMT - "Greenwich Mean Time"
GNU - "GNU is Not Unix (recursive)"
GUI - "Graphical Users Interface"
HTML - "HyperText Markup Language"
HTTP - "HyperText Transfer Protocol"
IRC - "Internet Relay Chat"
ISP - "Internet Service Provider"
IO - "Input Output" As in file IO.
LAN - "Local Area Network"
NTP - "Network Time Protocol"
NNTP - "Network News Transfer Protocol"
MDA - "Mail Delivery Agent"
MIME - "Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions"
MOSFET - "Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistor"
MUD - "Multiple User Dungeon" an interactive multiuser game
OSF - "Open Software Foundation"
PERL - "Pratical Extraction and Reporting Language" or
"Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister""
PPP - "Point-to-Point Protocol"
PINE - "Pine Is Not Elm"
RARP - "Reverse Address Resolution Protocol"
RFC - "Request For Comments"
RTF - "Rich Text Format"
TCP/IP - "Transmissions Control Protocol/Internet Protocol"
TIA - "The Internet Adaptor"
TTY - "Tele-TYpe"
SLIP - "Serial Line Internet Protocol"
SMTP - "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol"
SGML - "Standard Generalized Markup Language"
SWISH - "Simple Web Indexing System for Humans"
WAN - "Wide Area Networks "
WAIS - "Wide Area Information Server "
WWW or 3W - "World Wide Web "
URL - "Uniform Resource Locator"
-David
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