At the request of a few folks who have had trouble understanding some of my shorthand in emails and forum posts, I have uploaded a list of commonly used acronyms and emoticons. This is the "old timers" list that was developed in the dark ages of online communication when each byte cost money to send and receive, so shorthand was valuable and we didn't have cute daemons (images of smiley faces and the like <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> ) to post to accord an emotion to a statement. For those of us who still insist on text email, not HTML, they are still in everyday use. The younger generation has a whole other online language.

http://www.equipped.org/acronym-emoticon2.txt

Hope this helps.