ABBREVIATIONS / SMO

[István Rudas <Istvan@xxxxxxxxx>]

May I ask you all NOT to use too much unexplained abbreviations (beside
those well-known from the System's Namings given by IBM which are factual
in OS/400 or RPG), as it is a horrific vaste of time for  non-anglosaxonian
junglehoppers like me to figure out, what are

- IMO  [in my opinion? iso-molybdene-oxyde? international machines
organization?]
- BTW [by the way? best-trimmed-Web?]
- AKA  [also known as? asian katakana association?] .. .. .. ..


some look very very unprofessional like

- DF  [dumb feature? data file? that should be PF (physical file) or LF
(logical f) or JF (joined f) or is it a display file? that should be DSPF
(IBM-abbrev.)....]

- SF  [science fiction? San Francisco? or could that be a Subfile (that
should be SFL, IBM-Abbrev.)]
.. .. ..


Sorry for beeing a little bit offensive, but using a world-wide/global/
network can only be successful if everyone of us is willing to have a
specific amount of self-discipline to be understood from Malaysia to Chile
and from Seattle to Capetown... The alternative would create over the times
a smallminded Community with a selfgenerated newspeak-language which could
be understood by "special members only" (SMO).

TAL (thanks a lot)   
=:-)
Istvan (from Austria)
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