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From: rib@edsel.UUCP (RI Block)
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Subject: Re: origins of dsw
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Date: Mon, 30-Apr-84 22:51:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 30 22:51:34 1984
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	For some time now, Russian ham radio operators have sent
	the acronym "dsw" when ending their on-the-air conversations.
	It's used as a freindly goodbye.

Commercial ops too; Dsw in this context is Dos Wydanya
which is the normal way that slavs end conversations.

In Unix (and I've been using Unix since 1975 or so,
DSW means "delete s work" as previously mentioned.