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Re: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms
From: Richard Cox <richard () beijing spamhaus cn>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:00:39 +0000
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:18:53 -0600 Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> wrote:
TLA - Three Letter Acronym (e.g. FBI, NSA) FLA - Four Letter Acronym (e.g. IEEE)
Er, no. The correct term would be XTLA (Extended Three Letter Acronym). Otherwise it would be confusing if FLA was a TLA but TLA was not a FLA! Of course, XTLA *is* an XTLA. QED. RDGC _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms, (continued)
- Re: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms David Lodge (Jan 23)
- Re: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms Drsolly (Jan 24)
- Re: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 24)
- Re: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms David Lodge (Jan 24)
- Re: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms Richard Cox (Jan 24)
- RE: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms Nick FitzGerald (Jan 24)
- RE: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms Paul Schmehl (Jan 24)
- Re: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms Richard Cox (Jan 24)