On Mon, 2 May 2011 15:17:05 +0000, john gilmore wrote: > >It is useful, even highly desirable to provide enough context to disambiguate >an acronym when it has several senses in common use among the members of some >group, readers of IBM-MAIN posts, say. > Not much to take sides in the initial dispute except to note that those who have excruciatingly advocated the technically correct usage have squandered my sympathy, even to drive me to the opposite camp. (I know; argumentum ad hominem.)
But in the past hour, I encountered a couple systems programmers in the hallway and asked a question of recent interest: "How is ETR working for us now?" With a puzzled frown: "External Time Reference?" "No, he means IBMLink." Both IBM terminology. I haven't checked the Glossary to see which is supported. Assuming one but not the other is, must we eschew use of the other in these pages? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
