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Intressant att veta:

Moosenet startade under den första halvan av nittiotalet som ett nätverk uppbygt av noder med så kallad FTN-teknik (FTN = FidoNet Technology).

Systemet bestod av ett antal BBS:er som regelbundet ringde upp varandra enligt ett hierarkiskt system och på så sätt "pollade" mailen från varandra.

Runt 1996 när jag jag flyttade till England för att jobba som programmerare där kördes MoosE-NET fortfarande med FTN-teknik.

När jag kom tillbaka året efterpå fortsatte vi en tid med FTN-nätet men allt efterssom Internet blev mer och mer var mans egendom så började vi titta på om det inte vore lämpligare att lägga över nätet där.

Sagt och gjort, nätet flyttades och mötende slogs samman till en epostlista i stället. Tidvis är traffiken hög, till och med mycket hög medan andra tidpunkter är den så låg att man kunde tro hela nätet starvat av. I regel betyder det att alla stackare jobbar övertid.

Nu för tiden vet jag inte om det är mycket kvar av fidonet över huvud taget, kostnaderna i det systemet blev ganska höga för zone-koordinatorerna som fick ringa utlandssamtal för att förmedla posten åt alla andra i nätet.

Idag skickas det förmodligen via någon gate över via Internet, det blir ju billigare och billigare. Till och med vanlig telefoni börjar ju bli billigare på nätet så det står nog inte på innan IP-telefon är var mans egendom.

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2.2 The big unofficial moose smilie & acronym dictionary

ACRONYMS

These acronyms are frequently used as savers of bytes and time in CIS Forum messages.

Multiple Letter Acronym's are to be found throughout the electronic

mail/forum world to the eternal confusion of novices!

They are not designed to confuse you, merely a necessity for busy people

with 'hunt and peck' typing skills.

AIM Another IBM Mistake

B4N Bye for Now

BAD Broken as Designed

BAG Busting A Gut (Laughing)

BAMF Bad Assed Mother F.......

BBR Burnt Beyond Repair

BBS Bulletin Board System

BFN Bye For Now

BRB Be right back

BRS Big Red Switch

BTA But then Again (in response to IOW)

BTW By the way

BWQ Buzz Word Quotient

CIS Consumer Information Service (of CompuServe)

CU See you

CUL8R See you later

DL or D/L Download, transmit to you

DTRT Do The Right Thing

DWIMC Do What I Mean, Correctly

ESAD Eat S... and Die

ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym

FFRD Flying F... in a rolling donut

(I don't give a FF in a RD)

FISH First In, Still Here

FOAF Friend of A Friend

FRED F...... Ridiculous Electronic Device

FUBAR "Fixed" up beyond all recognition

FURTB Full up ready to burst (about hard disk drives!)

FW Freeware

FWIW For what it's worth

FYEO For Your Eyes Only

FYI For your information

GDW Grin, Duck and Weave

GFR Grim File Reaper (pervasive data destroyer)

GIGO Garbage in, Garbage Out

GIGO Garbage In, Gospel Out

(people accepting blindly what the computer says)

GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting

GR&D Grinning, running, and ducking

IAE In any event

ICOCBW I Could, Of Course, Be Wrong

IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion

IMCO In my considered opinion

IMHO In my humble opinion Äthe speaker is never humbleÅ

IMO In my opinion

IOW In other words

IWBNI If would Be Nice If

IYFEG Insert Your Favourite Ethnic Group

L8R Later (Sometimes Followed by Dude)

LD Long Distance

MLA Multiple Letter Acronym

MOTAS Member of the Appropriate Sex

MOTOS Member of the Opposite Sex

MOTSS Member of the Same Sex

NFW No F...ing Way

NSS No S..., Shylock

OIC Oh, I see!

OOTC Obligatory On-Topic Comment (used to drag a post on topic so as

to avoid the moderator's bytestick)

OTOH On the other hand

OTTH On the third hand

PD Public Domain (Freeware)

PITA Pain in the ....

PITA Pain in the "acronym"

PLOKTA Press Lots of keys to abort

PMFBI Pardon Me for butting in

POSSLQ Person of Opposite Sex sharing living quarters

PPN Programmer Project Number. Ie, a CIS user's ID#.

ROF,L Rolling on floor, laughing

RPG Role Playing Games

RSN Real Soon Now

RTFM Read the f...ing manual (or message)

RTFM Read the, uh, Friggin' Manual

SFLA Stupid Four Letter Acronym

SMOP Small Matter of Programming

SNAFU Situation normal, all "fixed" up

SO Significant Other

SWMBO She who must be obeyed

Sysop System Operator, person who runs the BBS/Forum

SW Shareware

TAFN Thats all for Now

TDM Too Damn Many

TGIF Thank God Its Friday

TIA Thanks in advance

TLA Three Letter Acronym (now surpassed by MLA)

TSR Terminate and Stay Resident program

TTFN Ta Ta For Now

TTL4N Thats the lot for now

TTYL Talk To You Later

TTYL Type To You Later

UL or U/L Upload, send to the BBS

WAW Why Ask Why?

WIMP Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointing

(to describe Windows & other similar interfaces)

WOFTAM Waste of Flaming time and money

WYGIWYPF What you get is what you pay for

WYSBYGI What you see before you get it

WYSIWYG What you see is what you get

YABA Yet Another Bloody Acronym

YMBK(J) You Must Be Kidding (Joking)

YMMV Your Mileage May Vary (I [liked it/didn't like it] but you

[may/may not])

SPECIALISED ACRONYMS

There are specialised ones for particular echos/forums, I'm sure you'll get

the idea from the list below from the Star Trek forums that use the

following.....

ST-TOS Star Trek, The Original Series

ST-TNG Star Trek, The Next Generation

STI/ST-TMP Star Trek, first movie/The Motion Picture

STII/ST-WOK Star Trek, second movie/'Wrath of Khan'

STIII/ST-SFS Star Trek, third movie/'Search for Spock'

STIV/ST-TVH Star Trek, fourth movie/'The Voyage Home'

STV/ST-TFF Star Trek, fifth movie/'The Final Frontier'

STVI/ST-TUC Star Trek, sixth movie/'The Undiscovered Country'

EMOTICONS

Emoticons are symbols to denote emotions. Sometimes it is just a word

inside < > brackets for example...

<g> or <grin> To mark a joke or sarcastic comment

<sigh>

A very popular emoticon is:

:) a smile

EMOTICON PART I

To help telecom-sters clarify just how humorous their postings are intended

to be, here is a collection of the many faces of humor, emoticon-style.

emoticon: n. a figure created with the symbols on a keyboard that

is read with the head tilted to the left. Used to convey

the spirit in which a line of text was typed.

Tilt your head slightly to the left to read the following emoticons.

************************************************************************

:-) Humor

:-) )-: Masking theatrical comments

:<) For those with hairy lips

:<)= For those with beards too

:/) Not funny

'-) Wink

P-) Pirate

;-) Sardonic incredulity

(@ @) You're kidding!

:-" Pursing lips

:-v Just another face (speaking) profiled from the side

:-V Shout

:-w Speak with forked tongue

:-W Shout with forked tongue

:-r Bleahhh (sticking tongue out)

:-f

:-p

:-1 Smirks

:-,

<:-O Eeek!

:-* Oooops (covering mouth with hand)

:-T keeping a straight face (tight-lipped)

:-D said with a smile

:-P

:-y

:-o More versions of shouting

:-O

:-{ Count Dracula

=|:-)= Uncle Sam

7:) Reagan

:-# Censored

:~i Smoking

:~j (and smiling)

:/i No smoking

:-I It's something, but I don't know what....

:-x Kiss kiss

:-> Alternate happy face

:-( Unhappy

:-c Real unhappy

:-C Unbelieving (jaw dropped)

:-< Forlorn

:-B Drooling (or overbite)

:-| Disgusted

:-? Licking your lips

<:>== A turkey emoticon

:-) :-) :-) Loud guffaw

:-J Tongue-in-cheek comments

:*) Clowning around

:-8 Talking out both sides of your mouth

(:-) Msgs dealing with bicycle helmets

@= Warning about nuclear war

<:-) For dumb questions

o= A burning candle for flames

-= A doused candle to end a flame

OO Headlights on msg

:_) I used to be a boxer, but it really got my nose out of joint

EMOTICONS PART ][

B-) Smiling and wearing glasses or sunglasses

(or a message from Batman)

8-) Same as previous; also used to denote wide-eyed look

#:-) :-) done by someone with sort of matted hair

:-o "Oh, nooooooo!" (a la Mr. Bill)

#:-o Same as previous

|-( Late night messages

:^) Messages teasing people about their noses

:-{#} Messages teasing people about their braces

(:-$ Message indicating person is ill...

(:-& Message indicating person is angry...

(:-( Message indicating person is VERY sad...

(:^( Message concerning people with broken noses

(:<) Message concerning blabber mouths

:-(=) Message about people with big teeth

&:-) Message from a person with curly hair

@:-) Message from a person with wavy hair

?-( Message about people with a black eye

*:* Message about fuzzy things

*:** Message about fuzzy things with fuzzy mustaches

%-) Message about people with broken glasses

+<:-| Message from a monk/nun...

{0-) Message from cyclops...

(:-|K- Formal message.

...---... S.O.S.

@%&$%& You know what that means...

||*( Handshake offered

||*) Handshake accepted

<&&> Message concerning rubber chickens

>< >< Message about/to someone wearing argyle socks

2B|^2B Message about Shakespeare

(-_-) Secret smile

<{:-)} Message in a bottle...

<:-)<<| Message from a space rocket...

(:-... Heart-breaking message...

<<<<(:-) Message from a hat sales-man...

(O--< A fishy message...

(:>-< Message from a thief: hands up!

<I==I) A message on four wheels

:^{ For those with mustaches

{ Alfred Hitchcock

@>--->---- A rose.

EMOTICONS PART ]I[

:-o Wow!

:-c Real unhappy

:-| Grim

:-C Just totally unbelieving

:= | Baboon

:-B Drooling

:-v Speaking

:-, Smirk

:-V Shout

:-|| Anger

:-w Speak with forked tongue

:-) Smiling

:-r Sticking tongue out

:-( Frowning

:-* Oops!

'-) Wink

:-T Keeping a straight face

;-) Sardonic Incredulity

:-D Said with a smile

%-<I> Drunk with laughter

:-x Kiss kiss

:-" Pursing lips

:-[ Pouting

:-# My lips are sealed

:-X A big wet kiss!

:-P Tongue hanging out in anticipation

:-Y A quiet aside

8-| Eyes wide with surprise

>-< Absolutely livid!!

&-| Tearful

|-{ "Good Grief!" (Charlie Brown?)

:-} "Thish wine tashted pretty good"

8-] "wow, maaan"

8-O "Omigod!!" (done after "rm -rf *" ?)

:-, "Hmmmm."

|~( "Someone just busted my nose".

:^D "Great! I like it!"

B-D "Serves you right, dummy!!"

EMOTICONS PART IV

:-) Your basic smiley. This smilie is used to inflect a sarcastic or

joking statement since we can't hear voice inflection over Unix.

;-) Winky smiley. User just made a flirtatious and/or sarcastic remark.

More of a "don't hit me for what I just said" smiley.

:-( Frowning smiley. User did not like that last statement or is upset

or depressed about something.

:-I Indifferent smiley. Better than a Frowning smilie but not quite as

good as a happy smiley

:-> User just made a really biting sarcastic remark. Worse than a :-).

>:-> User just made a really devilish remark.

>;-> Winky and devil combined. A very lewd remark was just made.

Those are the basic ones...Here are some somewhat less common ones:

:-( Boo hoo

:-)X Bow tie

*:o) Bozo the Clown!

:-c Bummed out smiley

:-8( Condescending stare

(:I Egghead

~~:-( Flame

8-) Glasses

8:-) Glasses on forehead

:-) Ha ha

E-:-I Ham-radio

:-| "Have an ordinary day" smiley

|-) Hee hee

:-> Hey hey

:-I Hmm

|-D Ho ho

B-) Horn-rims

Invisible smiley

(8-o It's Mr. Bill!

:-/ Lefty undecided smiley

>:-< Mad

3:[ Mean Pet smiley

O-) Megaton Man On Patrol! (or else, user is a scuba diver)

:-{ Mustache

:-: Mutant Smiley

:-x "My lips are sealed" smiley

:-0 No Yelling! (Quiet Lab)

:-P Nyah nyah

:-P Nyahhhh!

3:] Pet smiley

3:o[ Pet smiley

=:-) Punk-rocker

=:-( Real punk rockers don't smile

:-< Real sad smiley

O |-) Religion

:-6 Smiley after eating something sour

:-! Smiley bland face

:-1 Smiley bland face

:-] Smiley blockhead

0-) Smiley cyclops (scuba diver?)

:-$ Smiley face with it's mouth wired shut

:-0 Smiley orator

:-o Smiley singing national anthem

:-` Smiley spitting out its chewing tobacco

:-p Smiley sticking its tongue out (at you!)

8-) Smiley swimmer

{:-) Smiley with its hair parted in the middle

g-) Smiley with pince-nez glasses

:-Q Smoker

>:-I Startrek

X-( Suicide

B:-) Sunglasses on head

:-v Talking head smiley

}:-( Toupee in an updraft

@:I Turban

:-O Uh oh

:-o Uh oh!

:-[ Un-smiley blockhead

:-\ Undecided smiley

8 :-I Unix-wizards

(:-( Unsmiley frowning

:-} User has Beard

:^) User has a broken nose

:-{) User has a mustache

%-) User has been staring at a green screen for 15 hours straight

<|-) User is Chinese

<|-( User is Chinese and doesn't like these kind of jokes

:-)-8 User is a Big girl

E-:-) User is a Ham radio operator

:-[ User is a Vampire

C=:-) User is a chef

<:-I User is a dunce

8:-) User is a little girl

K:P User is a little kid with a propeller beenie

[:] User is a robot

O :-) User is an angel (at heart, at least)

|-I User is asleep

%-6 User is braindead

;-( User is crying

:*) User is drunk

:<) User is from an Ivy League School

:-D User is laughing (at you!)

(-: User is left handed

:-9 User is licking his/her lips

@= User is pro-nuclear war

:-C User is really bummed

:-@ User is screaming

:-/ User is skeptical

;-) User is so happy, s/he is crying

+-:-) User is the Pope or holds some other religious office

:-& User is tongue tied.

*<:-) User is wearing a Santa Claus Hat

@:-) User is wearing a turban

[:-) User is wearing a walkman

8-) User is wearing sunglasses

|-O User is yawning/snoring

:-* User just ate something sour

X-( User just died

:-7 User just made a wry statement

:-S User just made an incoherent statement

.-) User only has one eye

,-) User only has one eye...but he's winking

,:-) User shaved off Eyebrow...other side

`:-) User shaved one of his eyebrows off this morning

:-? User smokes a pipe

{:-) User wears a toupee

:-# User wears braces

B-) User wears horn-rimmed glasses

:-{} User wears lipstick

::-) User wears normal glasses

:-X User's lips are sealed

:-E Vampire, Bucktoothed

:-F Vampire, Bucktoothed with one tooth missing

;-) Winking smiley

d8= Your pet beaver is wearing goggles and a hard hat.

|-P Yuk

C=}>;*{O) Mega-Smiley... A drunk, devilish chef with a toupee in an

updraft, a mustache, and a double chin

Note: A lot of these can be typed without noses to make midget smileys.

|I Asleep

:,( Crying

;( Crying

:] Gleep...a friendly midget smiley who will gladly be your friend

:) Happy

:> Hmm, let me think...

:I Hmmm, not funny!

:I Hmmm...

[] Hugs and

:* Kisses

:D Laughter

:> Midget smiley

:) Midget smilie

:< Midget unsmiley

:{ Oh boy, the headmaster!...

:[ Real Downer

:( Sad

|^o Snoring

=) Variation on a theme...

:< What pretences!

:} What should we call these? (what?)

:@ What?

:O Yelling

EMOTICONS PART V --- People

98-pound weakling :-)--
Accountant :%)
Adolph Hitler :-=)
Arnold Schwarznegger :-)==
Bon Jovi #:-)
Bozo the Clown :o)
Carl Friedrich Gauss :+)
Celibate :-) >
Dolly Parton :-) 8
Donald Trump :$)
Ed Koch # :-)#
Everyman :*)
Helen Keller -
Innie (belly button) :-) {
Jimmy Durante :###)
John Holmes :-) ----8
John Q. Public :Q)
Jose Feliciano -)
Leper : )
Lesbians :-Q <> Q-:
Manic depressive :-) ... :-( ... :-) ... :-( ....
Nymphomaniac :-) < ... :-) < ... :-) < ....
Outie :-) ,
Peter Ubberoth :~)
Philosopher :?)
Picasso %\v
Pig :@)
Sam Kinnison :-)!!!
Sammy Davis, Jr. .-)
Schizophrenic *!#*!^*&:-)
Siamese twins (-::-)
Slut :-) <
Willie Shoemaker :-)
Wilt Chamberlin :-)
Male :-
Female >-
Infinity 8
Drama :-(
Comedy :-)
Surprise :-o
Suspense 8-|
Birth |-O
Death 8-#

EMOTICONS PART VI

:-)~ User drools
:-~) User has a cold
:v) User has a broken nose, but it's the other way
:_) User's nose is sliding off of his face
=:-) User is a hosehead
-:-) User is a punk rocker
-:-( (real punk rockers don't smile)
:=) User has two noses
8 :-) User is a wizard

Note: A lot of these can be typed without noses to make midget smilies.

:-@ smiley face screaming
:-#| smiley face with bushy mustache
:-% smiley banker
:^) smiley with pointy nose (righty)
:-7 smiley after a wry statement smiley invisible man
(:-) smiley big-face
):-) "
):-( unsmiley big-face
)8-) scuba smiley big-face
=:-) smiley punk-rocker
=:-( (real punk rockers don't smile)
+:-) smiley priest
:-q smiley trying to touch its tongue to its nose
:-e disappointed smiley
:-t cross smiley
:-i semi-smiley
:-a lefty smilely touching tongue to nose
:-s smiley after a BIZARRE comment
:-d lefty smiley razzing you
g-) smiley with ponce-nez glasses
:-j left smiling smilely
:-k beats me, looks like something, tho.
:-l y. a. s.
:-z y.a.c.s.
:v) left-pointing nose smiley
:-b left-pointing tongue smiley
.-] one-eyed smilely
,-} wry and winking
0-) smiley cyclops (scuba diver?)
:-=) older smiley with mustache
:u) smiley with funny-looking left nose
:n) smiley with funny-looking right nose
}:^#}) mega-smiley: updrafted bushy-mustached pointy nosed smiley with a double-chin

O |-) net.religion
8 :-I net.unix-wizards
E-:-I net.ham-radio
:-} beard
:-{ mustache
:-# braces
:-X bow tie
:-Q smoker
<:I dunce
(:I egghead
@:I turban
8-) glasses
B-) horn-rims
8:-) glasses on forehead
:-8( condescending stare
;-) wink
>:-< mad

These emoticons are particularly used by the Japanese but there is no reason why they should not get worldwide use.....

^^ happiness
^^; embarrasment
;; sadness
-- when it's the occasion to bow

*** EROTICONS ***

:-) -: Smilie with an erection.
:-) 8 - Female.
:-| 8( )- Pregnant Female.
:-( :- Impotent (Or let down).
:-) -8 Blue balls.
;-) o===8 Braggart.
:-\ 8o After a cold shower.
;-) ===8 Circumcised.
8-O --* Just before doubling over with pain.
:-) -^-: In need of some corrective surgery.
:-) :-... Taking a leak.
:-} -oo-: Taking matters into hand.
:-{ -__-: After slamming the toilet seat.
:-o ^^^^: After zipping up fly too fast.

Now that we've seen them, let's learn how to use them:

>> Newsgroup: alt.singles
>>
>> Hi. I'm new to this group. I'm a very well endowed guy ;-) o===8
>> and am looking for a girl with large hooters :-) 8 -
>> to have wild, uninhibited sex with. :-0==8

> Look, mister, you obviously are just some desparate geek :-) -8
> trying to relieve yourself over the Usenet. I'd hate to :-O -oo-:
> think of what would happen if someone walked in on you. :-{ ^^^^:
> In fact, you're probably just mastering the simplest tasks
> of managing your "manhood". :-) :-.... --> :-{ -__-:

Eventually, of course, we could communicate entirely with these smilies, and eliminate the bulky overhead of words, such as the following:

>>> Newsgroup: alt.single

>>> :-) o===8 + :-) 8 - ? (Proposition)
>> :-o -8 --> :-o -oo-: ! (Alternative suggestion)
> :-o --* (Ooh. That hurt)

And, of course, Flames:

:-( : - (You call those breasts? I've seen bigger lumps in oatmeal!)
:-0===8 (Oh yeah? I bet that you...)
:-( :- (Not with you I don't!)

I hope that these smilies will lead to more open communications between people on the Net. :-) --: