<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.
