9 Jan
2008
9 Jan
'08
5:03 p.m.
On Tue, January 8, 2008 08:51, Oren Beck wrote:
The short end of this is a question raised about traveling folks using TOR from Campgrounds on low end hardware.
Orin, wtf is "TOR"? TCP Over Racing-pigeon?
It's bad enough when people use non-standard acronyms of their own devising on IRC, where you can get an explanation in real time, but for a semi-literate mailing list, we should do better.
There was an old "stylesheet" (book of rules for how things get written consistently), I think it was the NY Times or the Times of London, that suggested that the first usage of an acronym should spell out the term, followed by the abbreviation in parenthes, so: TCP Over Racing-pigeon (TOR).