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Acronym    Meaning

ASAP       As Soon As Possible
BI         Borland International
BIX        Byte Information eXchange
BBS        Bulletin Board System
BRB        Be Right Back
BTW        By The Way
CIS        Compuserve Information System 
DL         DownLoad (obtain one or more files) from another
           computer to yours.
FAQ        Frequently Asked Question(s)
FWIW       For What It's Worth
FYI        For Your Information
GEnie      General Electric Network for Information Exchange
GDR        Grinning, Ducking and Running (seen in variations,
           such as GD&R or GR&D, or the one for someone who made
           a particularly nasty comment: GD&RLH = Grinning,
           Ducking and Running Like Hell)
IAC        In Any Case
IAE        In Any Event
IANAL      I Am Not A Lawyer (Often followed by "but, ..." as
           in: "IANAL but, it seems to me ...")
IMCO       In My Considered Opinion
IMHO       In My Humble Opinion
IMO        In My Opinion (there are many variations on these,
           including: IMNSHO = In My Not-So-Humble Opinion, and
           so on ...)
IOW        In Other Words ...
KWIM       Know What I Mean?
LOL        Laughing Out Loud (includes such variations as:
           LOLSCOK = Laughing Out Loud, Spitting Coffee On the
           Keyboard; and LOLSTC = Laughing Out Loud, Scaring The
           Cat)
MLA        Multiple-Letter Acronym (goes with [and is slowly
           replacing] TLA below)
NDA        Non-Disclosure Agreement
NRN        No Reply Necessary
OIC        Oh, I See
OL         OnLine
OTOH       On The Other Hand
PITA       Pain In The (fill in the blank)
PMBI       Pardon Me for Butting In
PMJI       Pardon Me for Jumping In
PPN        Programmer/Project Number -- CIS Account number in
           the form of: 12345,6789.
PRE        Productivity Reduction Enhancement
QA         Quality Assurance
ROFL       Rolling On the Floor, Laughing (also: ROTFL).
           Variations on this include: ROFLSTC (Rolling On the
           Floor, Scaring the Cat) and others even stranger.
RSN        Real Soon Now (Often used for release dates for
           software)
RTFM       Read The F...ing (er, Friendly?) Manual (or Message)
SITD       Still In The Dark
SYSOP      SYStem OPerator, person who runs the BBS/Forum
TANJ       There Ain't No Justice (attributed to Larry Niven's
           character Louis Wu)
TANSTAAFL  There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (often
           attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, from the novel "The
           Moon Is A Harsh Mistress", although there is some
           debate over this ...)
TIA        Thanks In Advance
TIC        Tongue In Cheek
TLA        Three Letter Acronym (now surpassed by MLA)
TS         Tech Support
TSR        Terminate and Stay Resident program
TTFN       "Ta Ta For Now" (a la Tigger from Winnie the Pooh)
TTYL       Talk To You Later
UL         UpLoad (send a file/files/data from your computer to
           another)
WAD        Works As Designed (e.g., "Is that a bug, or is it
           WAD?")
WAG        Wild-(fill in the blank)-Guess (Also, SWAG for Silly
           Wild ...)
WIZOP      WIZard sysOP (primary forum administrator)
WPO        WordPerfect Office -- the replacement for MHS being
           used at Borland. See section 12 for more information.
WRT        With Regard To
WTF        What The (fill in the blank) (as in: "WTF is wrong
           with this program?")
WTIM       With That In Mind
WYSIWYG    What You See Is What You Get

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