The following is
the collection of some abbreviations related to Internet & E-mail functions.
For example, if you don't know what FAQ stands for, you can refer it to
the following table. FAQ stands for "Frequently Asked Question List".
We will be very happy if the table below can help you learn Internet and
E-mail functions. Note that some abbreviations should not be used in your
letters.
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Remarks |
:-( | frowning | None |
:-) | smiling | None |
:-# | smiley with braces | None |
:-{) | smiley with a mustache | None |
:-T | indifferent | None |
:-D | laughing | None |
:-x | my lips are sealed | None |
;-) | winking | None |
{:-) | smiley with a toupee | None |
=:-( | real cool teenagers don’t smile | None |
=:-) | cool teenager | None |
AFAIK | as far as I know | Improper expression in your letters |
afs | File accessed via Andrew File System | |
alt | alternative newsgroups, many different topics | |
API | Application Programming Interface | |
Approved: | identifies moderator who posted article | |
ARPA | the United Stages Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | |
ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange | |
ASPs | Active Server Pages | |
ASAP | as soon as possible | |
at | Austria | |
at: | everywhere in Austria | |
au | Australia | |
AU | Audio File | |
AVI | Audio/Visual Interleaved Data | |
az | Azerbaijan | |
BBL | be back later | Improper expression in your letters |
BBSs | Bulletin Board Systems | |
BCNU | be seeing you | Improper expression in your letters |
be | Belgium | |
bionet | biology | |
BIT | Binary Digit | |
bit | many topics: from Bitnet mailing lists | |
biz | business, marketing, advertisements | |
bm | Bermuda | |
BPS | Bits Per Second | |
br | Brazil | |
BRB | be right back | Improper expression in your letters |
BRI | Basic Rate Interface | |
BTW | by the way | IImproper expression in your letters |
by | Belarus | |
BYE | goodbye (I am ready to stop talking) | |
BYE? | Goodbye? (are you ready to stop talking?) | |
ca | Canada | |
ca: | everywhere in California | |
CBF | Code-Behind-Forms | |
CDT | Central Daylight Time | |
CERN | Counseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire | |
CGI | Common Gateway Interface | |
ch | Switzerland (Confoederatio Helvetica) | |
cid | Content identifier for a Mime body part | |
cl | Chile | |
cm | Cameroon | |
cn | China | |
co | Columbia | |
com | Commercial Organization | |
comp | computers | |
Control: | contains special administrative commands | |
cr | Costa Rica | |
CS | Computer Science | |
CSO | Computing Services Office | |
CST | Central Standard Time | |
CTSS | Compatible Time-Sharing System | |
CU | see you (good-bye) | Improper expression in your letters |
CUL | see you later | Improper expression in your letters |
CUL8R | see you later | Improper expression in your letters |
cy | Cyprus | |
cz | Czech Republic | |
Date: | time and date article was posted | |
DCC | Direct Client to Client | |
DDL | Data Definition Language | |
de | Germany (Deutschland) | |
Distribution: | recommendation for where to send article | |
dk | Denmark | |
DNS | Domain Name System | |
DOS | Disk Operating System | |
DTD | Document Type Definition | |
dz | Algeria | |
ec | Ecuador | |
EDT | Eastern Daylight Time | |
edu | Educational Institution | |
ee | Estonia | |
EFNet | Eris-Free Network | |
eg | Egypt | |
es | Spain (Espana) | |
EST | Eastern Standard Time | |
europe: | everywhere in Europe | |
Expires: | recommendation for when to remove article | |
F2F | face to face | Improper expression in your letters |
FAQ | Frequently Asked Question List | |
fi | Finland | |
fj | Fiji | |
fo | Faroe Islands | |
FOAF | friend of a friend | Improper expression in your letters |
Followup-To: | shows where followup articles will be sent | |
Foo, Bar and Foobar | Whenever you want to refer to something without a name, you can use “foo” or “foobar”. When you want to refer to two things without a name, you use “foo” and “bar”. | |
fr | France | |
From: | userid and address that posted the article | |
FRP | fantasy role-playing | |
FTL | faster than light | |
ftp | File accessed via ftp | |
FWIW | for what it’s worth | Improper expression in your letters |
FYI | for your information | Improper expression in your letters |
GADBDP | Generally-Accepted Database Design Practice | |
gb | Great Britain | |
GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | |
gl | Greenland | |
GMT | Greenwich Mean Time | |
gn | Guinea | |
gopher | Gopher resource | |
gov | Government | |
gr | Greece | |
gu | Guam (US) | |
GUI | Graphical User Interface | |
hk | Hong Kong | |
hr | Hungary | |
HTML | Hypertext Markup Language | |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol | |
humanities | the arts and humanities | |
id | Indonesia | |
IDC | Internet Database Connector | |
ie | Republic of Ireland | |
il | Israel | |
IMAO | in my arrogant opinion | Improper expression in your letters |
IMHO | in my humble opinion | Improper expression in your letters |
IMNSHO | in my not so humble opinion | Improper expression in your letters |
IMO | in my opinion | Improper expression in your letters |
IMPs | Interface Message processors | |
in | India | |
inst182 | local to department #182 (Institut #182) | |
int | International Organization | |
ir | Iran | |
IRC | Internet Relay Chat | |
is | Iceland | |
ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network | |
it | Italy | |
ITS | Incompatible Time-Sharing System | |
JAM | just a moment | Improper expression in your letters |
jm | Jamaica | |
jp | Japan | |
JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group | |
k12 | kindergarten through high school | |
Keywords: | one or more words to categorize the article | |
kr | Korea (South) | |
kz | Kazachstan | |
L8R | later | Improper expression in your letters |
LAN | Local Area Network | |
lb | Liechtenstein | |
Lines: | size of the body + signature | |
lk | Sri Lanka | |
LOBjects | Line of Business Objects | |
local: | local to the site | |
lt | Lithuania | |
lu | Luxembourg | |
lv | Latvia | |
ma | Morocco | |
mailserver | Data accessed via a mail server | |
mailto | Mail a message to the specified address | |
md | Moldavia | |
MDT | Mountain Daylight Time | |
Message-ID: | unique identifier for the article | |
mid | Identifier of a specific mail message | |
mil | Military | |
Mime | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions | |
misc | anything that doesn't fit into another category | |
mo | Macao | |
MODEM | Modulation/Demodulation | |
MOTAS | member of the appropriate sex | Improper expression in your letters |
MOTD | message of the day | Improper expression in your letters |
MOTOS | member of the opposite sex | Improper expression in your letters |
MOTSS | member of the same sex | Improper expression in your letters |
MPEG | Motion Picture Experts Group | |
MST | Mountain Standard Time | |
MUD | Multiple User Dungeon or Multiple User Dialogue | |
MUSH | Multi-User Shared Hallucination | |
mx | Mexico | |
my | Malaysia | |
na: | everywhere in North America | |
net | Networking Organization | |
news | about Usenet itself | |
news | Usenet newsgroup | |
Newsgroups: | newsgroups to which the article was posted | |
nfs | File accessed via Network File System | |
ni | Nicaragua | |
nl | Netherlands | |
NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol | |
nntp | Usenet news for local NNTP access only | |
NNTP-Posting Host: | Name of Internet host that posted article | |
no | Norway | |
NT-1 | Network Terminator for Layer 1 | |
nz | New Zealand | |
Ob- | [as a prefix] obligatory | |
OBJOKE | Obligatory Joke | |
OBTW | oh, by the way | Improper expression in your letters |
ODBC | Open Database Connectivity | |
OLE | Object Linking and Embedding | |
org | Non-Profit Organization | |
Organization: | describes the person’s organization | |
OS | Operating System | |
OTOH | on the other hand | Improper expression in your letters |
pa | Panama | |
PAML | Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists | |
Path: | shows transit route of the article | |
PC | Personal Computer | |
PDT | Pacific Daylight Time | |
pe | Peru | |
ph | Philippines | |
PICO | Pine Composer | |
pl | Poland | |
PMFJI | pardon me for jumping in | Improper expression in your letters |
POP | Point of Presence | |
POP | Post Office Protocol | |
POV | point of view | Improper expression in your letters |
PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol | |
pr | Puerto Rico | |
PRI | Primary Rate Interface | |
prospero | Resource accessed via a Prospero directory server | |
PST | Pacific Standard Time | |
pt | Portugal | |
QBE | Query-By-Example | |
R U THERE? | Are you there? | Improper expression in your letters |
RDO | Remote Data Object | |
re | Reunion (French) | |
rec | recreation, hobbies, the arts | |
References: | identifies article to which followup refers | |
Reply-To: | address to which to send personal replies | |
RFC | Request for Comment | Improper expression in your letters |
rlogin | Interactive login session | |
ro | Romania | |
ROTF | rolling on the floor | Improper expression in your letters |
ROTFL | rolling on the floor laughing | Improper expression in your letters |
RPG | role-playing games | |
RTFM | before you ask a question, read the manual | Improper expression in your letters |
ru | Russian Federation | |
sa | Saudi Arabia | |
sci | science of all types | |
sdnet: | local to San Diego Country | |
se | Sweden | |
SEC... | wait a second | |
Sender: | address of computer that sent out article | |
sg | Singapore | |
SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language | |
si | Slovenia | |
sj | Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands | |
sk | Slovakia (Slovak Rep) | |
SLIP | Serial Line IP | |
SMP | Symmetrical Multiprocessing | |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | |
SO | significant other (spouse, boy/grilfriend...) | |
soc | social issues | |
SQL | Structured Query Language | |
su | Soviet Union | |
Subject: | short description of contents of article | |
Summary: | one-line summary of article | |
talk | debate on controversial topics | |
TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol | |
telnet | Interactive telnet session | |
th | Thailand | |
tn | Tunisia | |
tn3270 | Interactive 3270 telnet session | |
tr | Turkey | |
TTFN | ta-ta for now | Improper expression in your letters |
TTYL | talk to you later | Improper expression in your letters |
tuwien: | local to the university (Technische Universitaet Wien) | |
tw | Taiwan | |
ua | Ukraine | |
uc: | all the University of California campuses | |
ucsd: | local to the UCSD campus | |
uk | United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) | |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator | |
us | United States | |
usa: | everywhere in the USA | |
UT | Universal Time | |
UUCP | Unix to Unix Copy | |
uy | Uruguay | |
VBA | Visual Basic for Applications | |
VBScript | Visual Basic, Scripting Edition | |
ve | Venezuela | |
wais | Access to a Wais database | |
wais | Wide Area Information Service | |
WAN | Wide Area Network | |
WAV | Waveform Data | |
WINSOCK | Windows Socket Interface | |
world: | everywhere in the world | |
WRT | with respect to | Improper expression in your letters |
WUGNET | Windows Users Group Network | |
WWW | World Wide Web | |
WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get | |
Xref: | local cross-posting information | |
YMMV | your mileage may vary | Improper expression in your letters |
z39.50 | Access to a database via a Z39.50-type query | |
za | South Africa | |
zm | Sambia | |
zw | Zimbabwe |