[Elecraft] Now that we know

[Jessie Oberreuter]

      Heh, another thing that I've seen happen quite frequently is the 
re-invention of terms for many many common computer and network concepts 
as the technology hits parts of the general population that have had no 
introduction to prior terms.  I was recently asked to join a friend's 
yahoo group and found myself seeing a bunch of messages with subject lines 
ending in (n/t).

 	"What does (n/t) mean?"

 	"No text -- It's for writing one-liner responses... so people know
 	not to open the message for nothing."

 	"Ah!  The wheel turns again.  Same as EOM (End of Message) or the
 	even more archaic EOL, EOT, and EOF.  Kids these days ... no sense
 	of history :)."

'Course, then someone forces me to use Instant Messenger, and I drive them 
nuts writing things like:

 	"that's disgusting!
 	:feels ill

... because back in the MUD/MUSH days, lines beginning with quotes were 
"said", and lines beginning with colons were acted or emoted.  These 
features have not (yet?) (re)appeared in IM clients...