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Re: wtf wtf


 Shankar Unni 
>
>> 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!
>
>
What does the conversion to a DAT file achieve?? save a bit of
space/speed search?

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