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Re: [ga] And these mean?


Hi Jeff

I couldn't find any reference to LASC and think it may have been a typo for
ALSC.

ALSC    At Large Membership Study Committee
http://www.atlargestudy.org/

Regards
Patrick Corliss




----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Field <jfield@aaaq.com>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:03 AM
Subject: [ga] And these mean?


> FWIW, here are the results to the following previous post:
> <--------------- start post ---------------->
> Kudos to the first person that knows all the below listed (and recently used
> on this list) acronyms:
>
> NADF
> SEI
> LASC
> NGO
> RTFA
> APA
> RSN
> YMMV
> RIR
> IM(nl)HO  <---just the "nl" part)
> CNPB
> MHSC
> STV
> <--------------- end post ---------------->
> I only got two responses...there was agreement on the following 9 acronyms:
>
> NADF -- North American Directory Forum
> SEI -- Software Engineering Institute
> NGO -- Non-Government Organisation
> RTFA -- Read The Freaking Article
> APA -- Administrative Procedures Act
> YMMV -- Your Mileage May Vary
> RIR -- Regional Internet Registry
> MHSC -- Morgan Hill Software Company
> STV -- Single Transferable Vote
>
> and the following 4 acronyms had two different answers or guesses:
>
> LASC -- Lisp and Symbolic Computation and Los Angeles   ????????
> RSN -- Real Soon Now and Root Server Network
> IM(nl)HO -- In My (nl) Humble Opinion and In My No Longer Humble Opinion ??
> CNPB -- CardeoNeuroPulmonaryBypass and California Nonprofit Public Benefit
> Corporation Law ("CNPBCL")
>
> So, sorry!  No kudos this time around.  BTW, I don't know the answers
> myself, just wanted to see if anyone else did.  And, judging from the low
> level of responses recieved (only two) and that neither knew them all,
> perhaps people posting to this list would be a bit more considerate in their
> use of acronyms.  They are definitely a "barrier to entry" for newbies.
> Anyway, just one person's (with too much time on his hands) opinion.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff
> --
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> 925-283-4083
> jfield@aaaq.com
>
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