Acronyms and abreviations: (Print this out maybe?)
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(A * means that it is used very often on the internet!) jm
Copyright (C) Patrick Amato 1997. All rights reserved.
Non-Technical:
AAMOI - As A Matter Of Interest.
AFAIK - As Far As I Know.
AFAUI - As Far As I Understand It.
AIUI - As I Understand It.
CFD - Call For Discussion - Setting up new newsgroups.
FAQ - Frequently Asked Question. *
FOAF - Friend of a friend
- Grin
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time. (Great Britain)
GTBOS - Glad To Be Of Service.
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion.*
IMO - In My Opinion. (variant of IMHO)*
IYSWIM - If You See What I Mean.
- Just kidding
JVNP - Just Venting, Nothing Personal.
LDR - Long Distance Relationship.*
LTR - Long Term Relationship.*
OTOH - On The Other Hand.*
RFC - Request For Comments.
RTFM - Read the F*@%ing Manual.
SIG - Special Interest Group or .signature file.*
SNAFU - Situation Normal; All Fouled Up
TTFN - Ta-Ta For Now.
WRT - With Respect To.
WYSIWYG - What You See is What You Get. Compiled by Ian. & jm
YWIA - Your welcome in advance.
YMMV - Your mileage may vary (You may not have the same luck I did)*
AKA - "Also Known As"
ASAP - "As Soon As Possible"
BTW - "By The Way" *
BRB - "Be Right Back"
FYI - "For Your Information"
FWIW - "For What It's Worth"
FUBAR - "F'd Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair"
GD&R - "Grinning, Ducking and Running (After snide remark)"
IANAL - "I Am Not A Lawyer (But...)"
IDK - "I don't know"
IYKWIM - "If You Know What I Mean"
IYKWIMAITYD - "If You Know What I Mean And I Think You Do"
LOL - "Laughing Out Loud" *
OK - abbreviation of "oll korrect", alteration of "all correct"*
PITA - "Pain In The Ass"
PMFJI - "Pardon Me For Jumping In (another polite way
to get into a running discussion"
PMJI - "Pardon My Jumping In (another polite way to get into
a running discussion"
PS - "Post Script" *
TIA - "Thanks In Advance"
TPTB - "The Powers That Be"
ROTFL - "Rolling On The Floor Laughing" *
SOHF - "Sense Of Humor Failure"
SWALK - "Sealed With A Loving Kiss" (From WWII envelopes).
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAICT As Far As I Can Tell
AFGO Another F***ing (or Fabulous) Growth Opportunity
AFK Away From Keyboard
AIUI As I Understand It
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
B/C Because
BFD Big F***ing Deal
BFN Bye, For Now
BFO Blinding Flash of the Obvious
BO Buffer (Brain) Overload
BOFH Bastard Operator From Hell
BOKYAG Bend Over and Kiss Your A** Goodbye
BRB Be Right Back
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution (UNIX)
BTSOOM Beats The S*** Out Of Me
BYKT But You Know That
CU See You
CUL8R See You Later
CYA Cover Your A**
EFLA Extended Four Letter Acronym!
FAQ Frequently Asked Question
FC Fingers Crossed
FEAR F*** Everything And Run
FEAR False Evidence Appearing Real
FIIOH Forget It, I'm Outta Here
FOAD F*** Off And Die
G,D&R Grinning, Ducking, And Running
GFY Go F*** Yourself
GR&D Grinning, Running, & Ducking
HAND Have A Nice Day
HGAC Hasn't Got A Clue
HGAFC Hasn't Got A F***ing Clue
HTH Happy To Help
HTH Hope This Helps
IAE In Any Event
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IBK Idiot Behind Keyboard
IITYWTMWYBMAD If I Tell You What This Means Will You Buy Me A Drink?
IINM If I'm Not Mistaken
IIRC If I Recall Correctly
ILF I'll Look Forward
IMCO In My Considered Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IOW In Other Words
IRL In Real Life
ISTR I Seem To Recall
IYSWIM If You See What I Mean
L8R Later
LART Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool
LDR Long Distance Relationship
LMKOAP Let Me Know Of Any Problems
LOL Laughed Out Loud
MDA Mail Delivery Agent
MLM Multi-Level Marketing
MMF Make Money Fast
MOSFET Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistor
NIC Network Information Center
NIFOK Naked In Front of the Keyboard
NRN No Reply Necessary
OIC Oh, I See!
ONAW Oh No! Another Wedgie
OOTB Out Of The Box
OTP Off-Topic Posts
PIMP Peeing In My Pants
POV Point Of View
ROFLWMP Rolling on the Floor Wetting My Pants
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
RSN Real Soon Now (which may be a long time!)
SEP Someone Else's Problem
SITD Still In The Dark
SLAP Sounds Like A Plan
SOB Son Of a B****
SOL S*** Outta Luck
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TINC There Is No Cabal
TFB Too F***ing Bad
TLA Three-Letter Acronyms
TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge
UBE Unsolicited Bulk Email
UCE Unsolicited Commercial Email
UDP Usenet Death Penalty
VBG Very Big Grin
WIMP Washed-up Information Media Phobe
WABOS What A Bunch of S***
WAFWOT What A F***ing Waste Of Time?
WOB Waste of Bandwidth
WTFIGO What The F*** Is Going On?
WTF What The F***?
WTHAYTA What The Hell Are You Talking About
Y2K Year 2000
YAISB Yet Another Information Supercliche Book
YAM Yet Another Meeting
YCHT You Can Have Them
YHBF You Have Been Fooled
YHBT You Have Been Trolled
YHL You Have Lost
YKFIYF Your Kill File Is Your Friend
YM You Mean
RPC Remote Procedure Call
Compiled by Patrick Amato & Jon Melusky & Matt Cary
Definitions of words commonly heard on the Internet
Internet -
The entire set of networks. Developed by the US military.
cruft -
Binary or ascii data that is not needed or wanted. " I removed the
cruft that had filled the /tmp directory and the cache also."
flame -
A angry and often witty response to someone's post (hot talk);
Any type of junk mail you send companies because they posted on
a newsgroup. "Perhaps if you had a brain you would know that..."
flamebait -
An article that someone posts to draw flames. Sometimes brutal,
sometimes amusing. Or, any type of advertisement posted stupidly.
flavor -
Different version of software/hardware. " BSD and system V are two
flavors of UNIX."
foo, bar, baz -
Used to help detail a situation while keeping the discussion
abstract. "O.K. Lets say you have a file called foo. You have
another file called bar. The way you merge the two together
into a third , lets call it bar, is by using blah blah blah..."
net potato -
Similar to a couch potato. Someone who spends a great deal
of time surfing the net. You might even know one.
newbie -
A new participant of a particular newsgroup or the internet as
a whole. "listen you newbie, read the FAQ before you post..."
spam -
Unsolicited advertisments sent to a user or newsgroup.
The common response is to delete it.
snail mail -
Reference to the relative speed of postal mail .
surfing the net -
The action of traveling the World Wide Web
for ones own self interest. Kind of like Television.
techie -
Someone who knows about & is interested
in the technical aspect of the net.
troll -
A message posted to a newsgroup that is a lie meant to rile
people up. ie: "All cats should die!!" Posted in a cat group.
vanilla -
Something is vanilla when it is plain.
warez -
I believe it means "softwares". It is a hacker or cracker term for
software that does something sneaky, illegal, or hacker like. Cracker
means computer trespass with destruction caused. Hacker means trespass
without destruction. Sometimes a note is left by a hacker telling the
company or government of their security hole. Sometimes the note includes
the hackers resume and application for employment in the company or
government security department. Classy and non-classy trespass.
Abbreviations:
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Bcc: -
"Blind Carbon Copy"
Cc: -
"Carbon Copy"
Elm -
"Electronic Mail for UNIX"
Fcc: -
"File Carbon Copy"
.(sp?) -
abbreviation of "spelling?" . Often placed after a word
the author is unsure of the spelling and dosent want to run
a spell checker. Example: I went to thier (sp?) house for dinner.
P.S. -
"Post Script"
Pine -
"Pine Is Not Elm"
PovRay -
"Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer"
Re: -
"Regarding". Often used in email software.
Req: -
"Request".
No Copyright wanted for Jon Melusky.
Copyright (C) Patrick Amato 1995. All rights reserved.
Technical:
ANSI -
"American National Standards Institute: A group
that defines U.S. standards for the information
processing industry. ANSI participates in defining
network protocol standards."
ARCHIE -
"A system for locating files that are publicly
available by anonymous FTP."
ARP -
"Address Resolution Protocol"
ARQ -
"Automatic Repeat Request"
ASCII -
"American Standard Code for Information
Interchange."
BOFH - "Bastard Operator From Hell. [YIKES] A system
administrator with absolutely no tolerance for newbies."
BBS -
"Bulletin Board Software" or "Bulletin Board System"
BSD -
"Berkeley Software Distribution"
CGI -
"Common Gateway Interface"
DES -
"Data Encryption Standard"
DNS -
"Domain Name Service"
UDP -
"User Datagram Protocol"
FAQ -
"Frequently asked questions"
FTP -
"File Transfer Protocol" (often seen in lower case "ftp")
Gateway -
"A special-purpose dedicated computer that
attaches to two or more networks and routes
packets from one network to the other. In
particular, an Internet gateway routes IP
datagrams among the networks it connects.
Gateways route packets to other gateways until
they can be delivered to the final destination
directly across one physical network."
GNU -
"GNU is Not Unix (recursive)"
GUI -
"Graphical Users Interface"
HTML -
"HyperText Markup Language"
HTTP -
"HyperText Transfer Protocol"
IRC -
"Internet Relay Chat"
ISP -
"Internet Service Provider"
IO -
"Input Output" As in file IO.
LAN -
"Local Area Network"
NTP -
"Network Time Protocol"
NNTP -
"Network News Transfer Protocol"
MDA -
"Mail Delivery Agent"
MIME -
"Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions"
MOSFET -
"Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistor"
MUD -
"Multiple User Dungeon" (an interactive multiuser game.)
OSF -
"Open Software Foundation"
OSI -
"Open Systems Interconnection: A set of protocols
designed to be an international standard method
for connecting unlike computers and networks.
Europe has done most of the work developing
OSI."
PERL -
"Pratical Extraction and Reporting Language" or
"Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister""
PPP -
"Point-to-Point Protocol"
PINE -
"Pine Is Not Elm"
RARP -
"Reverse Address Resolution Protocol"
RFC -
"Request For Comments"
RTF -
"Rich Text Format"
TCP/IP -
"Transmissions Control Protocol/Internet Protocol"
TIA -
"The Internet Adaptor"
TTY -
"Tele-TYpe"
Server -
"A computer that shares its resources, such as
printers and files, with other computers on the
network. An example of this is a Network Files
System (NFS) Server which shares its disk space
with a workstation that does not have a disk drive
of its own."
SLIP -
"Serial Line Internet Protocol"
SMTP -
"Simple Mail Transfer Protocol"
SGML -
"Standard Generalized Markup Language"
SWISH -
"Simple Web Indexing System for Humans"
T-1 -
"A term for a digital carrier facility used to transmit
a DS-1 formatted digital signal at 1.544 megabits
per second."
T3 -
"A term for a digital carrier facility used to transmit
a DS-3 formatted digital signal at 44.746 megabits
per second."
TELNET -
"The Internet standard protocol for remote terminal
connection service. Telnet allows a user at one
site to interact with a remote timesharing system
at another site as if the user's terminal was
connected directly to the remote computer."
WAN -
"Wide Area Networks "
WAIS -
"Wide Area Information Server "
WWW or 3W -
"World Wide Web"
UNIX -
"An operating system developed by Bell
Laboratories that supports multiuser and
multitasking operations."
URL -
"Uniform Resource Locator"
WHOIS -
"An Internet program which allows users to query a
database of people and other Internet entities,
such as domains, networks and hosts kept at the
NIC. The information for people shows a person's
company name, address, phone number and
e-mail address." (Sililar to FINGER.)
No Copyright wanted for Jon Melusky.
Copyright (C) Patrick Amato 1995. All rights reserved.
Print this list out now before your harddrive crashes or your
back up files get smashed or your computer gets filled with
oatmeal from a small child. Just kidding. Jon
Latin Abreviations
bis.-
(As in V34.bis) It is Latin for "second."
cf.-
latin:"confer" which means (compare).
et al.-
latin:"et alii" or latin:"et aliae" which means (and others).
Sic-
latin:"sic" which means (thus). "stated in context"
ca.-
latin:"circa" which means (about).
e.g.-
latin:"exempli gratia" which means (for the sake of example).
etc.-
latin:"et cetera" which means (and so on).
i.e.-
latin:"id est" which means (that is).
N.B.-
latin:"nota bene" which means (note well).
viz.-
latin:"videlicet" from "videre licet"
which means (it is permitted to see).
Copyright (C) Patrick Amato 1995. All rights reserved.
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As "user@somehere.it" means the user is located in Italy.
Special thanks to John Hawk and Tommy Ljungberg
Last updated Fri Jan 19 19:50:32 EST 1996
Domain Country
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AD Andorra AE United Arab Emirates
AF Afghanistan AG Antigua & Barbuda
AI Anguilla AL Albania
AM Armenia AN Neterland Antilles
AO Angola AQ Antarctica
AR Argentina AS American Samoa
AT Austria AU Australia
AW Aruba AZ Azerbaijan
BA Bosnia-Herzegovina BB Barbados
BD Bangladesh BE Belgium
BF Burkina Faso BG Bulgaria
BH Bahrain BI Burundi
BJ Benin BM Bermuda
BN Brunei Darussalam BO Bolivia
BR Brasil BS Bahamas
BT Bhutan BV Bouvet Island
BW Botswana BY Belarus
BZ Belize CA Canada
CC Cocos (Keeling) Islands CF Central African Republic
CG Congo CH Switzerland
CI Ivory Coast CK Cook Islands
CL Chile CM Cameroon
CN China CO Colombia
CR Costa Rica CS Czechoslovakia
CU Cuba CV Cape Verde
CX Christmas Island CY Cyprus
CZ Czech Republic DE Germany
DJ Djibouti DK Denmark
DM Dominica DO Dominican Republic
DZ Algeria EC Ecuador
EE Estonia EG Egypt
EH Western Sahara ER Eritrea
ES Spain ET Ethiopia
FI Finland FJ Fiji
FK Falkland Islands (Malvibas)
FM Micronesia FO Faroe Islands
FR France FX France (European Territory)
GA Gabon GB Great Britain
GD Grenada GE Georgia
GF Guyana (French) GH Ghana
GI Gibralta GL Greenland
GM Gambia GN Guinea
GP Guadeloupe (French) GQ Equatorial Guinea
GR Greece GS S. Georgia & S. Sandwich Islands
GT Guatemala GU Guam (US)
GW Guinea Bissau GY Guyana
HK Hong Kong HM Heard & McDonald Islands
HN Honduras HR Croatia
HT Haiti HU Hungary
ID Indonesia IE Ireland
IL Israel IN India
IO British Indian Ocean Territories
IQ Iraq IR Iran
IS Iceland IT Italy
JM Jamaica JO Jordan
JP Japan KE Kenya
KG Kyrgyz Republic KH Cambodia
KI Kiribati KM Comoros
KN Saint Kitts Nevis Anguilla
KP Korea (North) KR Korea (South)
KW Kuwait KY Cayman Islands
KZ Kazachstan LA Laos
LB Lebanon LC Saint Lucia
LI Liechtenstein LK Sri Lanka
LR Liberia LS Lesotho
LT Lithuania LU Luxembourg
LV Latvia LY Libya
MA Morocco MC Monaco
MD Moldova MG Madagascar
MH Marshall Islands MK Macedonia
ML Mali MM Myanmar
MN Mongolia MO Macau
MP Northern Mariana Islands
MQ Martinique (French) MR Mauretania
MS Montserrat MT Malta
MU Mauritius MV Maldives
MW Malawi MX Mexico
MY Malaysia MZ Mozambique
NA Namibia NC New Caledonia (French)
NE Niger NF Norfolk Island
NG Nigeria NI Nicaragua
NL Netherlands NO Norway
NP Nepal NR Nauru
NT Saudiarab. Irak) NU Niue
NZ New Zealand OM Oman
PA Panama PE Peru
PF Polynesia (French) PG Papua New Guinea
PH Philippines PK Pakistan
PL Poland PM Saint Pierre & Miquelon
PN Pitcairn PR Puerto Rico (US)
PT Portugal PW Palau
PY Paraguay QA Qatar
RE Reunion (French) RO Romania
RU Russian Fedreation RW Rwanda
SA Saudi Arabia SB Salomon Islands
SC Seychelles SD Sudan
SE Sweden SG Singapore
SH Saint Helena SI Slovenia
SJ Svalbard & Jan Mayen SK Slovakia
SL Sierra Leone SM San Marino
SN Senegal SO Somalia
SR Suriname ST Sao Tome & Principe
SU Soviet Union SV El Salvador
SY Syria SZ Swaziland
TC Turks & Caicos Islands TD Chad
TF French Southern Territories
TG Togo TH Thailand
TJ Tadjikistan TK Tokelau
TM Turkmenistan TN Tunisia
TO Tonga TP East Timor
TR Turkey TT Trinidad & Tobago
TV Tuvalu TW Taiwan
TZ Tanzania UA Ukraine
UG Uganda UK United Kingdom
UM US Minor(outlying Isles) US United States
UY Uruguay UZ Uzbekistan
VA Vatican City State VC St Vincent & Grenadines
VE Venezuela VG Virgin Islands (British)
VI Virgin Islands (US) VN Vietnam
VU Vanuatu WF Wallis & Futuna Islands
WS Samoa YE Yemen
YT Mayotte YU Yugoslavia
ZA South Africa ZM Zambia
ZR Zaire ZW Zimbabwe
OTHER INFO:
So you want to start your own newsgroup? Just join:
alt.config biz.config us.config
And vote for groups, learn what is said, and think
about a name that hasn't been used before. (^:=
The entire list of current Usenet groups is at:
http://tile.net/news/ or http://www.dejanews.com/
Usenet Heirarchy abreviations:
alt a hierarchy for alternative or unique groups
bionet research biologists
bit BITNET groups distributed on USENET
chinese Chinese newsgroups
clari ClariNet - AP and Reuters wire service stories
comp computers newsgroups
de German newsgroups
fj Japanese newsgroups
fr French newsgroups
K12 Kindegarten through high school groups
misc groups not easily fit into other categories yet
news groups devoted to news about Usenet
rec Recreation, hobbies, the arts, sports, etc...
sci Science oriented groups (Very serious.)
soc discussion of cultures or social groups
gay-net gay-net (Gay issues)
geometry geometry
gnu Free Software Foundation GNU project
hepnet High Energy & nuclear Physics
info A collection of mailing lists
talk Talk: discussions of various topics
etc...
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Complete list of above are at these 5 places:
http://tile.net/news/
http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/home.html
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/active-newsgroups
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/alt-hierarchies
ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/config/newsgroups.Z
ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/config/newsgroups.gz
http://cs1.presby.edu/~jtbell/usenet/
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Usenet Email Address Endings Abreviations:
.com = company .edu = education or college
.org = nonprofit organization .gov = government
.net = network .mil = military
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Please, remember to always use the appropriate newsgroup:
- "news.newusers.questions" for technical QUESTIONS about the
Usenet News system,
- "misc.test" or local test groups for TEST postings,
- "soc.penpals" for personal MAIL contacts,
and so on.
Good Luck. Jon
(
geocities.com/soho)