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 All Acronyms] and [http://www.all-acronyms.com/?g=9.