ABBREVATIONS

EMOTICONS
Emoticon Symbols for E-mail:

:-) This is a smiley'. Lets people know you're joking.

;-) A wink. As in I'm really kidding.

:-> Devilish grin:-( Frowny face, I'm sad

8-) User wears glasses

(-: Left handed smiley

:-{)User has a mustache

[:-) User is wearing a walkman

%-) User's been staring at the screen too long

TECHNICAL ACRONYMS

ARP: Address Resolution Protocol

ARQ: Automatic Repeat Request

BBS: Bulletin Board Software

BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution

CGI: Comman Gateway Interface

DES: Data Encryption Standard

DNS: Domain Name Service

UDP: User Datagram Protocol

FAQ: Frequently asked questions

FTP: File Transfer Protocol (now often seen in lower case as ftp)

GMT: Greenwich Mean Time

GNU: GNU is Not Unix (recursive)

GUI: Graphical Users Interface

HTML: HyperText Markup Language

HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol

IRC: Internet Relay Chat

ISP: Internet Service Provider

IO: Input Output As in file IO.

LAN: Local Area Network

NTP: Network Time Protocol

NNTP: Network News Transfer Protocol

MDA: Mail Delivery Agent

MIME: Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions

MOSFET: Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor

MUD: Multiple User Dungeon an interactive multiuser game.

OSF: Open Software Foundation

PERL: Pratical Extraction & Reporting Language or Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister

PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol

PINE: Pine Is Not Elm

RARP: Reverse Address Resolution Protoco

lRFC: Request For Comments

RTF: Rich Text Format

TCP/IP: Transmissions Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TIA: The Internet Adaptor

TTY: Tele-TYpeS

LIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol

SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language

SWISH: Simple Web Indexing System for Humans

WAN: Wide Area Networks

WAIS: Wide Area Information Server WWW or 3W: World Wide Web

URL: Uniform Resource Locator

ABBREVIATIONS
Bcc: : Blind Carbon Copy

Cc: : Carbon CopyElm: Electronic Mail for UNIX

Fcc: : File Carbon Copy

O.K.: abbreviation of oll korrect, alteration of all correct : all right..

(sp?): abbreviation of spelling? Often placed after a word the author is unsure of the spelling and dosen't want to run a spell checker. Example: I went to
thier (sp?) house for dinner

.P.S. : Post Script

PovRay: Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

Re: : Regarding. Often used in mail software.

Req: : Request.