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From:	Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>
Subject:	Re: wtf wtf
Date:	Mon, 03 Nov 2003 12:07:02 -0800
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zzapper wrote:

> What I really want to know is why there are so few acronyms in WTF,
> does anyone have bigger datafiles??

Because as distributed, it was not intended to be a universal acronym
dictionary (which could run to millions of acronyms).

WTF has generally been used to expand acronyms for phrases used in
typical mailing list/newsgroup settings (e.g. IMO, etc.)

But hey, if someone has the energy to create *and maintain* a univeral
acronym library, go for it!



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