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> Chris Mason wrote:
> > [ lots of stuff ]
> [ snip ]
> I read all the posts, including yours. A lot of text.
> Actually I have other duties as well, so I did not pay to
> much attention to each of them. Now I'm trying to guess your
> point, but I cannot. I don't understand. In fact, even in the
> post I respond to you mentioned a lot of things, including
> anarchy, democracy and elections. I must be dumb, because I
> still don't see any reason to avoid some acronyms.
> Just as example: ETR means Electronic Technical Response and
> External Time Reference. Both are allowed by acronyms
> puritans. Sometimes it makes confusion. Why USS cannot be
> used as Unix System Services, since English language rules
> don't say acronym cannot be ambigous, and have to be approved by IBM.
You are attempting to inject logic and reason into what is essentially a
"religious" argument. You are inevitably doomed to fail.......
-jc-
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