On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, Mike Duvos wrote:
Well, I will admit the first one was satire, but the last two were perfectly accurate. For the humor impaired, this is an example of AOL. (That's Acronym OverLoad, not to be confused with the popular online service.)
You see, Gregory, there are far more things in the universe than there are three letter abbreviations for them. Hence, as the number of acronyms increases, collisions are inevitable. Asking "What is GAK?" or "What is ATM?" is really not well-defined outside of a narrow discipline.
It's quite obvious from the context of the post what the original poster was asking. You're just being a smart-ass. Your nonsense post is the kind of thing that most 5th graders would find immature. Grow up. PGP encrypted mail prefered Key fingerprint = d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/