[Sussex] Do we confuse you?

[Richie Jarvis]

I am afraid it happens in every industry/sector - not just the computing 
industry.  Would you know what a FAS is? or a BTR?  I didn't, until my 
wife joined the IS ;)

Richie

paul at paulgraydon.co.uk wrote:
> But again, to be fair, the computing world does have a stupid tendancy
> to invent new words to describe stuff.  Why phishing?  What purpose was
> their for coming up with a new name?  What was wrong with calling it a
> scam e-mail?  I bet if they were referred to as that a lot more people
> would understand what you're talking about.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of John D.
> Sent: 06 April 2005 16:34
> To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] Do we confuse you?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:42 +0100, Geoffrey J. Teale wrote:
> 
>>See here:
>>
>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4413155.stm
>>
> 
> 
> To be fair Geoff, the article did point out that the survey was done for
> AOL ! :-P
> 
> regards
> 
> John D.
> 
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