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Multiple-letter acronyms are to be found throughout the electronic mail/forum world, much to the eternal confusion of novices! They are not designed to confuse you, merely a necessity for busy people with "hunt and peck" typing skills.
| B4N | Bye for Now |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System |
| BRB | Be right back |
| BBR | Burnt Beyond Repair |
| BRS | Big Red Switch |
| BTA | But then Again (in response to IOW) |
| BTW | By the way |
| BWQ | Buzz Word Quotient |
| CIS | Compuserve Information System (tm) |
| CU | See you |
| CUL8R | See you later |
| DL or D/L | Download, transmit to you |
| DTRT | Do The Right Thing |
| DWIMC | Do What I Mean, Correctly |
| ETLA | Extended Three Letter Acronym |
| FOAF | Friend of A Friend |
| FURTB | Full up ready to burst (about hard disk drives!) |
| FWIW | For what it's worth |
| FYI | For your information |
| GDW | Grin, Duck and Weave |
| GFR | Grim File Reaper (pervasive data destroyer) |
| GIGO | Garbage in, Garbage Out |
| GIGO | Garbage In, Gospel Out (accepting blindly what the computer says) |
| GLGH | Good Luck and Good Hunting |
| GR&D | Grinning, running, and ducking |
| IAE | In any event |
| IMAO | In My Arrogant Opinion |
| IMHO | In my humble opinion |
| IMO | In my opinion |
| IOW | In other words |
| IWBNI | If would Be Nice If |
| IYFEG | Insert Your Favourite Ethnic Group |
| MLA | Multiple Letter Acronym |
| MOTAS | Member of the Appropriate Sex |
| MOTOS | Member of the Opposite Sex |
| MOTSS | Member of the Same Sex |
| OIC | Oh, I see |
| PLOKTA | Press Lots of keys to abort |
| POSSLQ | Person of Opposite Sex sharing living quarters |
| PMFBI | Pardon Me for butting in |
| ROFL | Rolling on floor, laughing |
| RPG | Role Playing Games |
| RSN | Real soon now |
| SMOP | Small Matter of Programming |
| SNAFU | Situation normal, all "fixed" up |
| SO | Significant Other |
| SWMBO | She who must be obeyed |
| SysOp | System Operator, person who runs the BBS/Forum |
| TAFN | Thats all for Now |
| TIA | Thanks in advance |
| TLA | Three Letter Acronym (now surpassed by MLA) |
| TTL4N | Thats the lot for now |
| TTFN | Ta Ta For Now |
| UL or U/L | Upload, send to the BBS |
| WIMP | Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointing (to describe Windows & other similar interfaces) |
| WOFTAM | Waste of Flaming time and money |
| WYGIWYPF | What you get is what you pay for |
| WYSBYGI | What you see before you get it |
| WYSIWYG | What you see is what you get |
