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From: "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] How could we tell? NPE
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:37:42 -0400
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Yes, but where do we draw the line? Do we have to explain what DNA stands for?
No, of course not. Anyone on this list is expected to understand what it means.
How about SMGF? Or TMRCA? Or EA or FTDNA or ISOGG? It would be an unnecessary
burden for posters to this list to have to explain what these acronyms mean
every time we use them, so the burden falls on the novice to educate themselves
as to the acronyms and other "jargon" used in this field. As I indicated, one
place to learn about the topic of this list is to study the list archive:

http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/DNA/GENEALOGY-DNA.html

And, by the way, it is standard netiquette to query a list's archive before
asking a question to see if the question hasn't already been answered, perhaps
numerous times, before.

I've added an entry for NPE at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPE:_non-paternity_event

Y'all can improve my entry by editing it.

Diana

> -----Original Message-----
> From: On Behalf Of Sandra Coulter
> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:39 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [DNA] How could we tell? NPE
>
> I must agree with Francois Greeff about defining acronyms. I
> looked up NPE
> in a DNA glossary that I have and it was not included. I am
> also a novice
> and must admit some of the conversations are way over my
> head. I am in the
> "learning" phase and am mystified by some of the comparisons,
> how they are
> made, and what they mean.
>
> Sandy Coulter
> Texas, USA
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:22:14 +0100
> From: "Francois Greeff" <>
> Subject: Re: [DNA] How could we tell? NPE.
> To: <>
>
> Hi,
> Please spare a thought for us novices. After all, "how could
> we tell" what
> NPE meant? I tried Google, which took me to
> http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/NPE, and things got worse:
>
> National Plastics Exposition
> National Policy on Education
> National Power Equipment, Inc. (Newark, NJ) National
> President-Elect Natural
> Penis Enlargement NavipPlan Extended (financial planning
> software) Navy
> Preliminary Evaluation Net Premium Earned Network Performance
> Endpoints
> (Ganynede) Network Planning and Engineering Network Processing Engine
> Network Protection Equipment NOBL Protective Enclosure Non-Personnel
> Expenditure/Expense Non-Polar Extractives Non-Practicing
> Entity (patent law)
> Non-Production Environment Nonyl Phenol Ethoxylate Nuclear Packing
> Efficiency (correlation of volume & DNA content of a cell nucleus with
> microscopic analysis) Nuclear Planning & Execution
> NullPointerException
> (Java) Nutrition Program for the Elderly (now Nutrition
> Services Incentive
> Program)
>
> Network Processor Engine
> Null Pointer Exception
>
> I shall be very grateful for two things, please:
> 1. NPE in three words
> 2. An explanation about NPE: What it is, how it works, what
> it does, and why
> it is important.
>
> Regards,
> Francois Greeff
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