[at-l] FUBAR et al

[lubitz@alpha.fdu.edu (Richard S. Lubitz)]

this thread reminds me of another acronym that comes from the early 
internet.  When a newbee would ask a question that should have been at his 
fingertips, in the manual, he often would receive the reply RTFM which 
means "Read The F'ing Manual".  Before the web, most e-mail addresses were 
the mainframe that they were on.  For example, my address is a unix mainframe 
at my alma mater named Alpha.  the other one on the same campus is named 
Prime.  One of the mainframes at MIT that is used for student e-mail is 
named RTFM.  I think the other one is Minerva
Rich