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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email ISP Internet Service Provider LXC Linux Containers SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) k8s Kubernetes container management package

[Thread #106 for this comm, first seen 19th Sep 2026, 02:10] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email ISP Internet Service Provider LXC Linux Containers SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) k8s Kubernetes container management package

8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.

[Thread #106 for this comm, first seen 19th Sep 2026, 02:10] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email ISP Internet Service Provider LXC Linux Containers SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) k8s Kubernetes container management package

8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.

[Thread #106 for this comm, first seen 19th Sep 2026, 02:10] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email ISP Internet Service Provider SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) k8s Kubernetes container management package

[Thread #106 for this comm, first seen 19th Sep 2026, 02:10] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email ISP Internet Service Provider SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

[Thread #106 for this comm, first seen 19th Sep 2026, 02:10] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]