Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Richard Tobin
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 00:00

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In article <3390a559.4210811@news.dircon.co.uk> mellis@dircon.co.uk writes:
>Sorry to spoil the fun but these are not acronyms.

Duh, did you *have* to do this?  We were having fun discussing unix
acronyms, and even doing it in unix newsgroups, and now you come along
and turn it into a boring discussion of the precise meaning of
"acronym".

Followups redirected to a more appropriate forum.

-- Richard
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I automatically delete unread all email from or through Earthlink,
Compuserve and usa.net, because it's almost all junk mail.

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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/06/08
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