communication style

[Jared Earle]

On 4/28/06, Alan Jacobs <alan.jacobs at wheaton.edu> wrote:
> > In IT parlance, SP means Service Pack.
>
> But primarily insofar as Microsoct issues Service Packs for its
> software. Since this not a general IT forum, but a forum for a
> Mac-only browser in which the term Service Pack is unlilely ever to be
> used, and since there are dozens of posts so far referring to the
> Sneaky Peeks as SPs, I think Clytie's usage is just fine.

SP is a very common term outside of MS in version numbers. If I were
to say SP1 in a JBoss forum, they would assume I was talking about
JBoss 4.03 Service Pack 1.

To assume SP is used just by Microsoft would show that this discussion
were taking place in a non-technical computer list. I know you said
'primarily', but that reinforces this fact, I believe. Context, once
more.

> And in any case, don't we have better things to do than chastise
> people for "improper" abbreviations in subject lines? Good grief.

Who was chastising? I was having an interesting discussion about context. :D

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