John Gilmore kindly wrote: >It is useful, even highly desirable to provide enough context to disambiguate an acronym when it has several senses in common use among the members of some group, readers of IBM-MAIN posts, say.
Agreed! >Consider now the acronyms and interpretation pairs: There was an old thread 'Offenders list for Acronym Police' started by Shmuel in 2002. Check it up! ;-D >SMF >Société Mathématique de France >System Management Facility SMF and TSO - 19 entries each in www.acronymfinder.com (that was in 2002) Today SMF has now 61 meanings and 228 in acronymfinder's attic... etc. I'm not going to check other overload acronyms... ;-D >Here on IBM-MAIN it would, I think, be good practice to to avoid ambiguous acronyms in captions, and to to explicate an acronym the first time it is used, as in . . . Perform Locked Operation (PLO) . . . after which, PLO, having been locally disambiguated, can be used freely. Good point! For once I agree to agree with you. :-D Ok, I'm now goint to STFU! ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
