communication style

[David Kettlewell]

Jared Earle wrote on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:00

>> don't we have better things to do than chastise
>> people for "improper" abbreviations in subject lines? 
> 
> Who was chastising? I was having an interesting discussion about context. :D

- and I was saying that the bottom line is  simply that I don't 
understand what people are talking about in the content of an e-mail 
when they use context-specific abbreviations: even though I've been 
testing and writing about sneaky peeks for several weeks, it never 
occurred to me that that was what SP referred to.

>> there are dozens of posts so far referring to the
>> Sneaky Peeks as SPs

I certainly haven't seen these

David Kettlewell
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