Re: Acronyms & Abbreviations--Just Say NO!

[Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Acronyms are not a means of just making typing easier,
they are a means of quickly communicating info to
others. They are used in common speak. They are
perfectly valid. No one wants to read "HyperText
Markup Language" over and over again, no one want's to
say it over and over again. People familiarize
themselves with acronyms to speed up the communication
process. If you are using so many acronyms that you
become confused or your confusae others, well, there's
an audience and knowledge issue at play. Acronyms are
useful.

I dare you to write a networking manual without ever
abbreviating:
Copper Distributed Data Interface 
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
Domain Name System
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
Integrated Services Digital Network
Local Area Network
megabits per second
Network File System
Network Information Center
Network Operations Center
Open Systems Interconnect Model
Private Branch Exchange
Point-of-Presence
Point-to-Point Protocol
Secure Sockets Layer
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Simple Network Management Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
Wide Area Network

among many, many others...


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Goober Writer
(because life is too short to be inept)

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