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Why use acronyms? TPAF TINLTW

Sorry, It means the posts are free. There is no limit to words ;-)

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Why use acronyms? TPAF TINLTW Sorry, It means the posts are free. There is no limit to words ;-) Brian -- Brian Kelley - tv@... Online NLN Catalog -...
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I suspect that it's not for economy of bandwidth or storage, but economy of typing. Personally I don't do it unless I've already written the full name at least...
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... That's kind of a throwback for us oldtimers to the early days of the list (mid to late 90's!). There were a lot more message traffic in those days (Hey...
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