A "Remote" way to depart this list

[Gloria Rossi <rossi -at- UNM -dot- EDU>]

Try using a dictionary (does anyone remember this old-fashioned resource
for independent souls?)  The synonym you want is "distant".  There's no
need for anyone to work so hard to come up with more
acronyms/abbreviations, as the respondent below has done.

And to the person who wanted to know how to get off this time-consuming
source of pedantry, just reverse the "subscribe" process:

Mail to:   listserv -at- osuvm1 -dot- bitnet
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Message is: unsubscribe your_name techwr-l





At  2:09 PM 4/12/94 -0400, Len Olszewski wrote:
>>         I'm looking for a synonym for "remote", used in the phrase
>> "Remote File System".  The TLA (Three Letter Acronym) for this is "RFS",
>> which unfortunately conflicts with another TLA we use.  So far I haven't
>> come across anything startlingly appropriate ("aloof file system" just
>> doesn't make it).  Any thoughts?
>>
>> Steven J. Owens

>You can hyphenate ======================>  non-local file system
>                                           off-site file system

>You can add a word =====================>  remote access file system
>                                           (RAFS) - an FLA

>You can subtract a word ================>  remote system (RS, a 2LA)
>                                           remote file (RF, another 2LA)

>You can substitute words ===============>  remote system access
>                                           remote file access

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