Forum Archive Index - February 2004

["tennyson@caverock.net.nz" <tennyson@caverock.net.nz>]

Hi David,

> Not dropping this bone that readily. Abbreviations to address
> designation of companies. Yeah - Sound common sense . T.I.A`s and
> their equivalent filling dictionaries of the future . Nope !  It`s not
> a slippery slope I will contribute towards -we are far enough down
> that road already without my contribution.
> 

Sorry David, the horse bolted a decade ago.   The phrase TIA was not 
invented by me.   It has been in common parlance in net group 
discussion for years.

And unlike other abbreviations which only reduce excess letters this 
one ( TIA - Thanks In Advance ) reduces excess messages as well.

If you like you can continue to write:

'If I recall corrrectly' instead of IIRC
'For what it's worth' instead of FWIW
'By the way' instead of BTW

But you are only wasting your own time in writing the phrases out in 
full, wasting the band-width of sending out those extra characters to 
hundreds of readers, and wasting the time of other net users in reading 
the excess characters that you wrote.     

Time to get with it man!

SNOOPY

PS  Oh yes, I should ask you to stop writing in html text as well.   But I 
am sure I can blame the factory settings of Micrsoft Outlook for that 
little misdemeanour ;-)








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