Re: No "u" or "ur" PLEASE! (was CPYTOPCD)

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxx>]

Dan,

About 4 years ago I first got started on this whole "internet" thing and, to 
this
day, still have a hard time trying to figure out some of the shorthand.  I 
responded
to a post that ending with YMMV and stuck my foot in my mouth by asking, what 
does
that mean? Your Move M... V...? You Make Me Vomit? I was informed that it meant:
Your Mileage My Vary.  Webster (how coincidentally ironic) needs to create a new
dictionary!

As I understand it's a leftover from the "old" days of 300 to 1200 baud
connections.  When characters meant time.

That was until a few month's ago when a friend of the family visited from Japan 
and
told me about their cost to receive email.  Characters count.  He pays, to get 
his
email, about what you or I would pay for a long distance phone call. Per 
minute. On
top of his phone charges. Per minute.

So I've learned that posting in cyber shorthand is a courtesy when it's 
broadcast to
unknown members of a list.

In keeping with IBM's naming conventions, I'm going to drop the vowels <g>

Jms W Klgr



Dan Bale wrote:

> Forgive me if this seems rather snitty of me (I really am a nice guy), but 
>could
> we please dispense with the use of "u" for "you" and "ur" for "your".  I 
>thought
> this shorthand disappeared a while ago; I find it rather annoying (I rank it
> right up there with SHOUTING CAPITALS) and it seems out of place in a
> professional forum.  And could we see at least one space after sentence-ending
> periods?
>
> Have a nice day!
> Really!
>
> - Dan Bale
>
> "Seenivasan AKK, Gurgaon" <akks@ggn.hcltech.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Buck,
>      I think for one year Experienced  programmer urs expectations were
> somewhat higher.But u may be the correct guy to analyse the things as u have
> 20 yrs exp.I want to know my capability from u.I am having 2.5 yrs
> experience .What is ur expectaion?
>
> Rds,
> AKK.
>
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