From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 18 04:42:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA04561 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 04:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA04549 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 04:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from noatun.ifi.uio.no (2602@noatun.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.85]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id NAA03655; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:42:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by noatun.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:42:02 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: drifter@stratos.net Cc: Dan Janowski Subject: Re: Why pdp11 is cool. (WAS: SCO offers Ancient Unix...) References: <19980518021302.A6070@stratos.net> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 18 May 1998 13:42:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: drifter@stratos.net's message of "Mon, 18 May 1998 02:13:02 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 10 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message