Yeah, I have desktop effects:

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 01:48 +0530, das wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:15:02 -0430
> "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > You need to learn your net jargon :-) Other common acronyms on mailing
> > lists (and increasingly elsewhere as well):
> 
> Is it Mailing list --> and increasingly elsewhere, or, Elsewhere -->
> Mailing lists? 

Some of it is originally Usenet, them mailing lists, then a wider
public.

> Is it a mailing list or Short-Message-Servicing-list? 
> 
> If in that much hurry to write, why write at all? If it is typing speed: 
> there always is good old gtypist.   

Well, I suggest you get used to it because it's not going away. Every
community has its jargon and this one is no exception.

poc