Question on acronym plural

Subject: Question on acronym plural
From: Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:12:52 -0700

Well, it's TVs, CPAs, FAQs and DVDs (<== never an apostrophe).

I'll defer to others, but in this case I'd be inclined to not use the
acronym, instead referring to them as Request*s* for Service.

> Chris

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Heather Anderson <
Heather -dot- Anderson -at- cubrc -dot- org> wrote:

> Request for Service = RFS
>
> When talking about multiple, do I leave it as RFS or use RFS' ?
>
> Ie, certain RFS were used to create.... or Using a meaningful sample of
> RFS',
>
>
> I really should know this, but my brain is dying due to the paper I'm
> working on.
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