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At 01:20 PM 8/16/2002 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >Jonathan Robie writes: > > > Or perhaps ORSTL would be a more apt comparison. > >When I acronymize myself it's usually SSL (not SGS or STL). If you've >called me "O'Reilly Simon St.Laurent" a few times, I suspect people will >be able to figure out ORSTL or ORSSL. I just did a Google search on SSL and found all kinds of things, but none of it was about you - at least not on the first page. ORST seems to be Oregon State University. ORSTL is still available, I think. On the other hand, I can search for Simon St. Laurent and find you quite rapidly. >People seem to have "gotten" W3C XML Schema pretty readily (despite its >non-use in the specs except as the name of a working group), and WXS is >a similarly small jump. > >I'm not really sure why you see this as such a problem. Do a Google search on WXS. It won't get you to the XML Schema specification. IT does return lots of different things, some of which are related to computers. That means that anybody who doesn't know your private vocabulary doesn't necessarily know what you are talking about. It seems silly to insist on renaming something with a name used primarily on one mailing list, because it doesn't help communicate. It's not worth debating endlessly, but I think calling things by their name does make it a lot easier for people to know what you are talking about. Alternatively, you could put a list of your private acronyms in your signature ;=> Jonathan
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