communication style

[Eugene]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 08:30:30AM CDT, Jared Earle <jearle at gmail.com> wrote:
: 
: On 4/28/06, Clytie Siddall <clytie at riverland.net.au> wrote:
: >
: >Sorry, David. The abbreviation "SP" had been used so many times for
: >"Sneaky Peek", that I thought it was commonly-understood now.
: 
: In IT parlance, SP means Service Pack. What you're doing is the
: equivalent of my mother signing off her mails LOL, which - for her -
: means 'lots of love', but for the rest of the world means 'laughs out
: loud'. Contextually, I understand your SP because it's in my Omniweb
: folder, but if it weren't, I wouldn't, much like if anyone but my
: mother signed off LOL, I would ask what was so funny.
: 
: It's all about context.

In the Windoze world, "SP" means "Service Pack".
"IT" does not equal "Windoze".  And the person
that thinks Windoze and IT are the same need to
be shot along with lawyers, politicians, and the
RIAA.


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Eugene
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