The Australian Association for the Abolition of Acronym Abuse,
Regional Group Headquarters, Strategic and Tactical Operations Planning
(we are aware of the irony. we voted on it. the motion to feel shame was defeated 7-2.)
* OPERATIONAL STATUS: VIGILANT
Founded in the golden age of Usenet - back when a good flame war on news.admin.net-abuse.email could run to four hundred replies and nobody had heard of a "thread" that wasn't made of cotton - AAAAARGHSTOP exists for one purpose: to stand, arms crossed, between the Australian public and the ever-rising tide of unnecessary, redundant, and downright hostile acronyms.
We do this the only way any serious organisation does anything: by forming a Regional Group Headquarters, standing up a Strategic and Tactical Operations Planning division, and producing a truly heroic volume of paperwork about it.
What each of those eleven syllables of the name actually means, and why the committee that named us should probably have been stopped earlier.
Our roster, our cross-membership with the Lumber Cartel (Australian Chapter), and other confessions.
PIN Numbers. ATM Machines. RAS Syndrome. Justice will be filed, in triplicate.
Sign the petition. Fill in the form. Sign our guestbook, the way God and Netscape intended.
You are visitor number:
000001 (since some time in 1997, allegedly)
CERTIFIED ACRONYM-FREE ZONE*
*Except for the word ZONE, and every other word on this page. We are working on it. A subcommittee has been formed.