Acronym expansion caveats

Acronym expansion caveats

[luis fernandes]

I've not been following the AE thread but I had some thoughts on the
matter last night (excuse me if this has already been discussed).

(One assumption I have made is that there is a function that expands
all the acronyms in a buffer).

1) When someone's post is cited in a follow-up, acronyms in the cited
   text should not be expanded; i.e. the original author's post
   should be reproduced verbatim.

2) What happens when an acronym has two possiblities; e.g. CGI, in
   the www newsgroups is "Common Gateway Interface", and "Computer
   Generated Imagery" in the visual-effects/computer graphics
   newsgroups.

Re: Acronym expansion caveats

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

elf@ee.ryerson.ca (luis fernandes) writes:

> I've not been following the AE thread but I had some thoughts on the
> matter last night (excuse me if this has already been discussed).
> 
> (One assumption I have made is that there is a function that expands
> all the acronyms in a buffer).

I don't think anybody has suggested that -- the ae things are meant
for interactive usage only, since it takes a while to get a response
from the web server for each acronym.

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