
                                   ACRONYMS
Multiple Letter Acronym's are to be found throughout the electronic
mail/forum world to the eternal confusion of novices!

They are not designed to confuse you, merely a necessity for busy people
with 'hunt and peck' typing skills.

             B4N             Bye for Now
             BAD             Broken as Designed
             BAMF            Bad Assed Mother F.......
             BBS             Bulletin Board System
             BRB             Be right back
             BBR             Burnt Beyond Repair
             BRS             Big Red Switch
             BTA             But then Again (in response to IOW)
             BTW             By the way
             BWQ             Buzz Word Quotient
             CIS             Compuserve Information System <tm>
             CU              See you
             CUL8R           See you later
             DL or D/L       Download, transmit to you
             DTRT            Do The Right Thing
             DWIMC           Do What I Mean, Correctly
             ETLA            Extended Three Letter Acronym
             ESAD            Eat S... and Die
             FFRD            Flying F... in a rolling donut
                             (I don't give a FF in a RD)
             FISH            First In, Still Here
             FOAF            Friend of A Friend
             FRED            F...... Ridiculous Electronic Device
             FUBAR           "Fixed" up beyond all recognition
             FURTB           Full up ready to burst (about hard disk drives!)
             FWIW            For what it's worth
             FYI             For your information
             GDW             Grin, Duck and Weave
             GFR             Grim File Reaper (pervasive data destroyer)
             GIGO            Garbage in, Garbage Out
             GIGO            Garbage In, Gospel Out
                             (people accepting blindly what the computer says)
             GLGH            Good Luck and Good Hunting
             GR&D            Grinning, running, and ducking
             IAE             In any event
             IMAO            In My Arrogant Opinion
             IMHO            In my humble opinion
             IMO             In my opinion
             IOW             In other words
             IWBNI           If would Be Nice If
             IYFEG           Insert Your Favourite Ethnic Group
             MLA             Multiple Letter Acronym
             MOTAS           Member of the Appropriate Sex
             MOTOS           Member of the Opposite Sex
             MOTSS           Member of the Same Sex
             NFW             No F...ing Way
             NSS             No S..., Shylock
             OIC             Oh, I see
             OTOH            On the other hand
             PITA            Pain in the ...
             PLOKTA          Press Lots of keys to abort
             POSSLQ          Person of Opposite Sex sharing living quarters
             PMFBI           Pardon Me for butting in
             ROF,L           Rolling on floor, laughing
             RPG             Role Playing Games
             RSN             Real soon now
             RTFM            Read the f...ing manual (or message)
             SFLA            Stupid Four Letter Acronym
             SMOP            Small Matter of Programming
             SNAFU           Situation normal, all "fixed" up
             SO              Significant Other
             SWMBO           She who must be obeyed
             TAFN            Thats all for Now
             TDM             Too Damn Many
             TGIF            Thank God Its Friday
             TIA             Thanks in advance
             TLA             Three Letter Acronym (now surpassed by MLA)
             TTL4N           Thats the lot for now
             TTFN            Ta Ta For Now
             UL or U/L       Upload, send to the BBS
             WIMP            Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointing
                             (to describe Windows & other similar interfaces)
             WOFTAM          Waste of Flaming time and money
             WYGIWYPF        What you get is what you pay for
             WYSBYGI         What you see before you get it
             WYSIWYG         What you see is what you get
             YABA            Yet Another Bloody Acronym

             Sysop           System Operator, person who runs the BBS/Forum


                            SPECIALISED ACRONYMS
There are specialised ones for particular echos/forums,  I'm sure you'll
get the idea from the list below from the Star Trek forums that use the
following.....

    ST-TOS          Star Trek, The Original Series
    ST-TNG          Star Trek, The Next Generation
    STI/ST-TMP                    --              when it's the occasion to bow

Compiled by Peter Deegan (CIS 100033,141) as part of an article for the
Sydney PC User Group in Australia.

