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Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 22:12:08 -0600
From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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To: "Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: Why pdp11 is cool. (WAS: SCO offers Ancient Unix...)
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Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote:
> 
> drifter@stratos.net writes:
> >       In any case, I think I once wrote to chat a couple of months
> > ago complaining about all the Three Letter Abbreviations that
> > proliferate on the 'net, like IIRC and FWIW. Not that I want to start
> > that thread again :).
> 
> FWIW, IIRC and FWIW are not TLAs, they're ETLAs. So there. HTH. HAND.

Out in these parts, they're known as '4LAs', which is either a TLA or
3LA, depending on your alphanumerical proclivities.  'FLA' won't work,
because it is too ambiguous.

Also note that TLA, 3LA, and 4LA are not related to 'LAL' in any way - 
that is a TLA for "Los Angeles Losers."  Go Jazz!  ;^)

-- 
       "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                 Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr                      wes@softweyr.com

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