From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: style
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:47:24 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	Ah, memories.  For a delightful series of parodies of the
bureaucratic fondness for acronyms, I recommend Keith Laumer's Retief
series.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:25 PM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: style

I was an Army brat and am familiar with the hankering for acronyms by the =
military. . .

When we lived in Korea, the dependent housing we had was next to - but =
seperated by fencing and barbed wire - the ROK Army BOQ.

Ah, memories . . .

mjw

>>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/11/02 04:21PM >>>
	You obviously don't work for the US Department of Defense.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:01 PM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: style

>	Thank you.  I prefer italics for book titles and other media
>equivalent to book titles.  However, my email software will only allow me =
=
to
>use italics when I initiate a message and not subsequently.  Somewhere I =
=
saw
>the before & after underscore and thought it was the new standard.  Live =
=
and
>learn.
>	Would someone take on the job of publishing a WSFA Netiquette =
list?
>In addition to the compromise italics, I would like a list of the
>semi-mysterious abbreviations such as IMHO and YMMV.  (I now know both of
>these.)
>	/s/ LCS3
>

Google is your friend: http://www.apc.net/ia/scrmaim.htm
Best to use sparingly.

mjw