[Info-vax] [OT] Abbreviations, was: Re: Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

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In article <l7v7ht$g5f$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2013-12-07 13:29:
>> In article <l7v0nk$3e8$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>> On 2013-12-07, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> When the context at hand is "electronic presentations", *no* IT
>>>> professional today would missunderstand what PPT stands for!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Agreed. As a example, I know at least three definitions for "RMS" and
>>> each would be clear in a discussion because of the context it would be
>>> used in without having to spell it out.
>>
>> Mention of RMS in the context of comp.os.vms stands a better chance of being
>> understood to be Record Management Services than as Root Mean Squared, Risk
>> Management Solutions, Richard Matthew Stallman, Railway Mail Service or the
>> Ramstein Air Base.  I'm sure there are those reading here that have used or
>> have seen RMS in these other contexts but they would most likely read Record
>> Management Services.
>>
>> PPT: Parts per Thousand|Trillion, Precipitate?  Primitive Pythagorean Triple,
>> Perl Power Tools, Personal Property Tax or Putnam Premier (Income) Trust.  I
>> would have thought of one of the aforementioned; not PowerPuke which I would
>> have assumed abbreviated as PP.
>>
>
>Does anyone of those mentioned have anything with presentation file
>formats to do? No, in the context at hand, PPT was perfectly clear
>to anyone not sticking to his childish view of anything none-VMS.
>Grow up...

Only if somebody was following along in the thread.  Richard, who I know is
a user of that M$ Gaming Console Virus Collection product and thus, should 
have known better than I being he's one who employs it, didn't know!  It's
not childish to dispute that that pseudo-TLA was outside of the context of
c.o.v. (that's comp.os.vms).

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