AbbreviationsInMails
People love to use abbreviations in mails, however these are often confusing for other (especially new) users:
- AFAIK ... As far as I know
- ATM ... At The Moment
- AYSOS ... Are you stupid or something? ... but never used on Apache mailing lists.
- BTW ... By the way
- CLI ... CommandLine
- DYOR ... Do your own research
- FS ... Flexibility Syndrome
- FWIW ... For what its worth
- FYI ... For Your Information
- IANAL ... I am not a lawyer
- IIRC ... If I recall correctly
- IIUC ... If I understand correctly
- IMHO ... In my humble opinion
- IoC ... Inversion of Control
- JFDI ... Just ... do it!
- KISS ... Keep it simple, stupid
- NIH ... Not Invented Here
- NPOV ... Neutral Point of View
- OTOH ... On the other hand
- POV ... Point of view
- PDQ ... Pretty Damn Quick
- SOC ... Separation of Concerns
- WDYM ... What Do You Mean
- WDYT ... What Do You (all) Think
- YAGNI ... You Ain't Gonna Need It
- +1, -1, etc. ... Voting indicators, see http://apache.org/foundation/voting.html
Pre-Subject Acronyms
Wiki Markup *\[ANN\]* ... announce
Wiki Markup *\[FYI\]* ... for your information
Wiki Markup *\[HEADS UP\]* ... this is unimportant but you should look anyway ;) - _thanks to Steven Noels for this brilliant definition ;-)_
Wiki Markup *\[IMP\]* ... IMPortant (I like \[HEADS UP\] much more... - SN)
Wiki Markup *\[OT\]* ... off-topic
Wiki Markup *\[PATCH\]* ... from bugzilla, indicates someone submitted a patch
Wiki Markup *\[RT\]* ... random thought
Wiki Markup *\[SUMMARY\]* ... summing up of a problem and proposed/working solutions to it (if possible, summaries should be done on this Wiki, with the SUMMARY mail containing only a link)
Wiki Markup *\[WOT\]* ... way off-topic. Wide open throttle elsewhere. \\
some special ones
- Antwort ... Re: in German
- AW: abbreviation of antwort
- AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: ... a bunch of Germans having a discussion
- AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: ... Germans talk to other people too
(thanks to Jeremy Quinn for these)
- FWAYRATJ ... Frankly, Why Are You Reading All This Junk (just made it up
- DO NOT REPLY ... from bugzilla, an attempt to initiate a discussion when day is slow.
You might also want to look at All Acronyms] and [http://www.all-acronyms.com/?g=9.