Acronyms

• <G> - BIG GRIN - more humorous than <g>
• <VBG> - VERY BIG GRIN - more of the same only bigger
• <VBEG> - VERY BIG EVIL GRIN
• AMOF - As A Matter Of Fact
• AAR - At Any Rate
• AFAIAA - As Far As I Am Aware
• AFAIAC - As Far As I Am Concerned
• AFAIC - As Far As I'm Concerned
• AFAICT - As Far As I Can Tell
• AFAIK - As Far As I Know
• AFAIR - As Far As I Recall
• AFK - Away From Keyboard
• AIUI - As I Understand It
• B4 - Before
• BBL - Be Back Later
• BBS - Be Back Soon or Bulletin Board Service
• BOFH - Bastard Operator From Hell
• BS - Bovine Excrement
• BTDT - Been There, Done That
• BTDTGTTS - Been There, Done That, Got The Tee Shirt
• BTDTGTTSAWIO - Been There, Done That, Got The Tee Shirt And Wore It Out
• BTW - By The Way
• C & C - Cats and Coffee - usually appears as "C & C Warning!" - refers to the fact that what you are about to read is so funny that you'll spill your coffee, at which point the cat that's in your lap will leap up, scratching you with its claws. So put the coffee down and get the cat off your lap before reading this.
• CUL - See You Later
• DUL - Dial Up List - a list of dialups known to be used by spammers. Networks can use the list to automatically block all mail from those dialups.
• DYJHIW - Don't You Just Hate It When
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - a compendium of the most frequently asked questions.
• FLA - Four Letter Acronym
• flame(s) - refers to a newsgroup post which is insulting or inflammatory in nature. Usually used to either criticize someone's ignorance of a subject, to cover up for one's own lack of good argument or just to start a flamewar.
• flamewar - a phenomenon in Usenet where posters begin "flaming" each other and the flames escalate until many people are involved.
• FOAD - (F*) Off And Die - used in Usenet when someone has had enough of another person.
• FUBAR - (F*) Up Beyond All Recognition
• FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
• FWIW - For What It's Worth
• FYEO - For Your Eyes Only
• FYI - For Your Information
• GFY - Go (F*) Yourself
• GoAT - Go Away Troll - a troll is someone who posts in a newsgroup with the intention of irritating the regulars.
• HAND - Have A Nice Day
• HTH - Hope This Helps (or Hope That Helped)
• IANAL - I Am Not A Lawyer - precedes free legal advice on the Internet.
• IBDIIN - I'll Be D*ed If I Know
• IINM - If I'm Not Mistaken
• IIRC - If I Recall Correctly
• IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
• IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble Opinion
• IMO - In My Opinion
• IOW - In Other Words
• ISTM - It Seems To Me
• ISTR - I Seem To Recall
• ITIKWYM - I Think I Know What You Mean
• ITLA - Incremented Three Letter Acronym - believe it or not, at one time IBM ran out of TLAs. In order to move to four letter acronyms, they had to come up with a four letter acronym to replace TLA. But FLA wouldn't work, because that was only three letters. So ITLA was adopted as the "standard" to describe all four letter acronyms.
• ITYM - I Think You Mean (or I Thought You Meant)
• IIUC - If I Understand Correctly (or If I Understood Correctly)
• IYSWIM - If You See What I Mean
• JAPH - Just Another Perl Hacker
• JFTR - Just For The Record
• JHD - Just Hit Delete - what the spammers would like you to do instead of complaining to their ISPs.
• LART - Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool
• LOL - Laughing Out Loud
• LUSER - Local User, often used in a derogatory sense by admins and techs who have to deal with users that don't seem to want to understand how computers work.
• MAPS - Mail Abuse Protection System
• NIH - Not Invented Here
• NNTP - Network News Transport Protocol - hopefully you'll be using this one soon. :-)
• NRN - No Reply Necessary ('course, it could mean Not Right Now, couldn't it?)
• OB - an on-topic comment at the end of an otherwise blatantly off-topic post. OB actually stands for obligatory, so it's not really an acronym.
• ORBS - Open Relay Behaviour-modification System - a list of open relays that are used by spammers - networks can use this list to block mail from those sites
• OTOH - On The Other Hand
• PITA - Pain In The A**
• POC - Point Of Contact
• POS - Parent Over Shoulder.
• POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service - seriously!
• POV - Point Of View
• RBL - Realtime Blackhole List - a part of the MAPS project - used to block mail from networks that seem unable to prevent spam from emanating from their network.
• RFC - Request For Comments
• RFD - Request For Discussion
• RFMS - Rapid Fire Mail Server - the spammers use these to send mail straight from their machine to yours.
• ROTFL - Rolling On The Floor Laughing
• ROTFLK&S - Rolling On The Floor Laughing, Kicking And Screaming
• ROTFLMAO - Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off
• RSN - Real Soon Now
• RTFAQ - Read The Frequently Asked Questions
• RTFM - Read The (F*) Manual
• RTM - Read The Manual
• SCNR - Sorry, Could Not Resist
• SITD - Still In The Dark
• SNR - Signal to Noise Ratio - used on Usenet to refer to the ratio of useful posts to useless posts.
• spam - unsolicited email, the use of the term comes from a Monty Python skit where a group began chanting "spam, spam, spam, spam", drowning out all conversation.
• SPMD - Some People May Differ
• STFU - Shut The (F*) Up
• TAN - There are no - used as a disclaimer, as in TANW for There Are No Winners or TANCM for There Are No Cartel Members, etc.
• TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
• TEOTWAWKI - The End Of The World As We Know It
• TIA - Thanks In Advance
• TIN - There Is No - used to preface a disclaimer.
• TINC - There Is No Cabal - some think a cabal runs Usenet, but the cabal says they don't.
• TINLC - There Is No Lumber Cartel
• TLA - Three Letter Acronym
• troll - not an acronym, but a very common term found on Usenet. It is used to describe the type of individual who deliberately posts imflammatory responses in a newsgroup in an attempt to start a "flamewar".
• TTBOMK - To The Best Of My Knowledge
• TTFN - Ta Ta For Now
• TTYL - Talk To You Later
• UUOC - Useless Use Of Cat
• WHBT - We Have Been Trolled
• WHL - We Have Lost
• WRT - With Regard To
• WTF - What The (F*)?
• WTFDTM - What The (F*) Does That Mean?
• WTH - What The Heck?
• WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get - pronounced wiz-ee-wig - refers to software that is supposed to display the final product in the same window you edit from - like Microsoft's FrontPage® web page editor.
• YA - Yet Another
• YAACA - Yet Another Attempted Character Assassination
• YACC - Yet Another Compiler Compiler - the originator of YA.
• YHGMTPOTG - You Have Greatly Misunderstood The Purpose Of This Group
• YHL - You Have Lost
• YKYB...TLW - You Know You've Been (Doing Something) Too Long When
• YMBJ - You Must Be Joking
• YMHMYFAIOA - You May Have Mistaken Yourself For An Inventor Of Acronyms
• YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary

Compiled Thursday, June 01, 2000 22:22:58 by bjgeiger.

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