I also had same experience. I tried for GOOS. It expanded as: Global Ozone
(should be Ocean) Observing System. When I sent a mail for correction, I
have no reply as yet (even automated!).
-Murari Tapaswi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elaine Firestone" <elaine@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov>
To: <ucdavis.edu!iamslic@ren.ren.nic.in>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:04 PM
Subject: [IAMSLIC:1940] Re: Free acronym finder from Wiley
> >This is a great tool. Eleanor
> >
> >ACRONYM FINDER... a free online resource
> > --> http://www.wiley.com/trackthrough?urlcode=20176531
> >
> >This free resource from Wiley InterScience provides an interface
> >for Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations.
> >Search or browse thousands of entries in a convenient pop-up format.
> >
> >[Source: Wiley InterScience Life Sciences News (Apr 2002)]
> >--
>
> I'd advise anyone using this to not take their expansion of acronyms
> as gospel truth. Just for fun, I put in the acronym of the project I
> work for at NASA. Their expansion was wrong. I sent e-mail to them
> with the correct version, but I only got one of those automated reply
> messages in return so far.
>
> Caveat emptor.
>
> Elaine
>
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