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From: briang@bari.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Abbreviation: RTFM
Message-ID: <124695@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 89 15:18:40 GMT
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In article <1643@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-sli@nada.kth.se (Stefan Lindmark) writes:
>In article <1854@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> dune@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Greg Pasquariello) writes:
>>Ok, what does TARFU mean?  And while were on the subject, what does IMHO
>>mean?
>
>IMHO=In My Honest Opinion  (Took a while for me too to figure out...)

1) But you got it wrong ...

2) According to the article "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (Updated:
   3  Sep 1989)", a version of which EVERY new user is expected to have read in
   news.announce.newusers, it is "In My Humble Opinion".

3) Clearly TARFU is a member of the SNAFU family, but I don't recall which one.
   My favorite is still JANFU -- Joint Army Navy ...