AbbreviationsInMails
People love to use abbreviations in mails, however these are often confusing for other (especially new) users:
AFAIK ... As far as I know
ATM ... At The Moment
AYSOS ... Are you stupid or something? ... but never used on Apache mailing lists.
BTW ... By the way
CLI ... CommandLine
DYOR ... Do your own research
FS ... Flexibility Syndrome
FWIW ... For what its worth
FYI ... For Your Information
IANAL ... I am not a lawyer
IIRC ... If I recall correctly
IIUC ... If I understand correctly
IMHO ... In my humble opinion
IoC ... Inversion of Control
JFDI ... Just ... do it!
KISS ... Keep it simple, stupid
NIH ... Not Invented Here
NPOV ... Neutral Point of View
OTOH ... On the other hand
POV ... Point of view
PDQ ... Pretty Damn Quick
SOC ... Separation of Concerns
WDYM ... What Do You Mean
WDYT ... What Do You (all) Think
YAGNI ... You Ain't Gonna Need It
+1, -1, etc. ... Voting indicators, see
http://apache.org/foundation/voting.html
Pre-Subject Acronyms
[ANN] ... announce
[FYI] ... for your information
[HEADS UP] ... this is unimportant but you should look anyway
- thanks to Steven Noels for this brilliant definition ;-) [IMP] ... IMPortant (I like [HEADS UP] much more... - SN)
[OT] ... off-topic
[PATCH] ... from bugzilla, indicates someone submitted a patch
[RT] ... random thought
[SUMMARY] ... summing up of a problem and proposed/working solutions to it (if possible, summaries should be done on this Wiki, with the SUMMARY mail containing only a link)
[WOT] ... way off-topic. Wide open throttle elsewhere.
some special ones
Antwort ... Re: in German
AW: abbreviation of antwort
AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: ... a bunch of Germans having a discussion
AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: ... Germans talk to other people too
(thanks to Jeremy Quinn for these)
FWAYRATJ ... Frankly, Why Are You Reading All This Junk (just made it up
DO NOT REPLY ... from bugzilla, an attempt to initiate a discussion when day is slow.
You might also want to look at
http://apache.org/foundation/glossary.html and
All Acronyms.