Keith Whaley wrote:
Folks that have been on thes groups for a long time seem to forget
others just joining, or not running across a particular acromym, might
get confused at the various unknowns from time to time.
That is a Good reminder.
In Writing 101, it was stressed that the first time you used an acronym
in a correspondence, you spelled it out. From then on, you could use the
shortened version at will.
It is Ideal for technical writing.
The person who recently asked What is a NG had a perfectly valid
question, and it seems to me everybody pretty much ignored it.
The Subject line says it all. That IS the answer.
Well, almost. For some folks an NG may be what others call a forum.
The former generally refers to Usenet (the way I am posting this repsonse using NTTP)
while a forum typically means a hosted website (using HTTP).
Google translates one into the other, further confusing new users.
Usenet is the 'wild wild west' of the internet: generally unmoderated and has trolls,
psychos, etc. Forums are usually moderated and consequently sometimes boring!-)
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