[13937] in Cypherpunks
Re: AOL and LAM (LA meeting)``
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Thu May 19 16:52:41 1994
From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Thu, 19 May 94 16:44:51 EDT
In-Reply-To: <199405191903.MAA22404@netcom.com>; from "Timothy C. May" at May 19, 94 12:03 pm
Tim asked:
| By the way, while ATM has _three_ major meanings, are there any ohter
| such examples? Or even _four_ major meanings?
NIC came up while we were planning a new operating theatre:
Nurse In Charge, Not In Charts, and Network Interface Card.
Outside of the chart we were looking at, its Network Information
Center, and probably has other meanings.
Adam
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Adam Shostack adam@bwh.harvard.edu
Politics. From the greek "poly," meaning many, and ticks, a small,
annoying bloodsucker.
